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| Genre/Form: | Ratgeber |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Provitera-McGlynn, Angela. Successful beginnings for college teaching. Madison, WI : Atwood Pub., c2001 (OCoLC)682230819 |
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Angela Provitera-McGlynn |
| ISBN: | 1891859382 9781891859380 |
| OCLC Number: | 47947535 |
| Description: | 157 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1: Classroom and course management -- Nuts and bolts of successful beginnings -- Teach students to do well in your course -- Make your attendance policy clear -- Gather information about your students -- Accommodate students who have special needs -- Some ideas on promoting student success -- Clarifying your testing policy -- Issue of academic integrity -- Some quick tips on managing the learning environment -- Guidelines for student success (handout) -- Preparing for and taking exams (handout) -- More tips for test preparation and test taking (handout) -- CHAPTER 2: Positive start -- First day classroom activities and icebreakers -- Family name exercise -- "What's in a name?" exercise -- Stand up-sit down exercise -- Activities that help students find commonalities -- Introduction by identities exercise -- Student disclosure exercises -- Dyadic interviews -- Informal sharing exercises -- Walk around the room exercises -- Scavenger hunt -- Wheel within a wheel -- Alphabetize exercise -- Introductions and repetition -- Introducing yourself -- Course expectation activities -- Your goal: a relaxed atmosphere from day 1 -- Personal reference inventory (PRI). CHAPTER 3: Creating a welcome classroom environment -- "Chilly classroom climate" -- What students want from us as faculty -- How to build rapport and connect with your students -- Specific tips for building rapport and connecting with students -- Promoting student-student interaction -- Participation, motivation, and perseverance -- CHAPTER 4: Promoting student participation and motivation -- Promoting self-regulation: teaching students how to learn and improving student learning -- Interactive classroom -- Interactive lecture -- Engaging your students-even the passive and resistant ones -- Class discussion -- Planning and executing classroom discussions -- Cooperative and collaborative learning -- Benefits-and risks-of cooperative and collaborative learning -- Some specific group learning strategies -- Essence of promoting student participation and motivation. CHAPTER 5: Dealing with incivility in the college classroom -- What is classroom "incivility"? -- Guidelines for courtesy and respect -- Specific disruptive behaviors- and how to handle them -- Dealing with student who have side conversations -- Dealing with students who sleep or do unrelated work -- Dealing with student disruption in large-lecture classes -- It's always good to have a plan -- CHAPTER 6: Keeping the ball rolling to a fruitful conclusion -- Motivating your students to complete the semester -- Role of writing exercises in keeping students engaged, promoting critical thinking skills, and fostering learning -- Other active learning exercises to help your students persevere -- Drawing the semester to a positive close -- Taking class notes -- CHAPTER 7: turning "successful beginnings" into successful teaching exercises -- Appendix: Creating your course syllabus: a brief overview -- Helpful teaching resources -- References -- About the author. |
| Series Title: | Teaching techniques/strategies series, v. 2. |
| Responsibility: | by Angela Provitera McGlynn. |
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