A Guide to Better Teaching: Skills, Advice, and Evaluation for College and University Professors

Leila Jahangiri; Tom Mucciolo

doi:10.5771/9781442208940

Summary

A Guide to Better Teaching is a self-help book that provides anyone teaching a college course with a thorough understanding of what it takes to be an effective teacher. Derived from the authors' extensive research, several interactive assessment tools are included that measure levels of effectiveness according to learner preferences. Each chapter is filled with detailed explanations, relevant stories, and action-driven tables that help them in understanding and applying skills. This book aims to enhance teaching skills by offering critical perspectives, practical suggestions, and techniques for improvement. Whether a new teacher, an adjunct faculty, or a seasoned professor, this comprehensive information can be used to analyze effectiveness or the effectiveness of others. The suggestions and the assessment tools are applicable to the entire spectrum of organizational leaders and managers, in education, government or industry whose work requires giving presentations or communicating in a public forum.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 2011
ISBN-Print: 978-1-4422-0892-6
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4422-0894-0
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 310
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. List of Figures and Tables No access
3. Introduction No access
1. 1. The Effective Teacher No access
  2. Who Should Assess? No access
  3. Learner Preferences No access
  4. Effective Teachers and the Learning Process No access
  5. Getting to Know You No access
2. 1. Preferences of Different Learners No access
  2. Categorizing Preferences No access
  3. A Self-Assessment Method No access
1. 1. Caring No access
  2. Empathy No access
  3. Happiness No access
  4. Energy No access
  5. Passion No access
  6. Motivation No access
  7. Expertise No access
  8. Inspiration No access
  9. Self-Confidence No access
  10. Approachable No access
  11. Personal Appearance No access
  12. Personality — Summary and Strategy No access
2. 1. Content Organization No access
  2. Content Development No access
  3. Content Design No access
  4. Additional Sense Stimulation No access
  5. Environment No access
  6. Process — Summary and Strategy No access
3. 1. Body Language Style No access
  2. Speaking Style No access
  3. Technology No access
  4. Focus No access
  5. Interaction No access
  6. Performance — Summary and Strategy No access
1. 1. Applying Science in Design No access
  2. Forms of Measurement No access
  3. Assess Yourself No access
  4. Interactive Electronic Assessments No access
  5. Understanding the Electronic Analysis No access
  6. Understanding Learners No access
  7. Applying the Results No access
  8. Audience Evaluation Tools No access
  9. Toward Triangulation No access
  10. Track Your Progress No access
Notes No access Pages 281 - 296
Index No access Pages 297 - 308
About the Authors No access Pages 309 - 310