McKeachie's teaching tips: strategies, research, and theory for college and university teachers

Introduction

Countdown for course preparation

Meeting a class for the first time

Facilitating discussion : posing problems, listening, questioning

How to make lectures more effective

Assessing, testing, and evaluating : grading is not the most important function

What to do about cheating

The ABC's of assigning grades

Motivation in the college classroom

Valuing student differences

Problem students (there's almost always at least one!)

Counseling, advising, and educating

Teaching students to learn through writing : journals, papers, and reports

Reading as active learning

Active learning : cooperative, collaborative, and peer learning

Problem-based learning : teaching with cases, simulations, and games

Technology and teaching

Teaching large classes (you can still get active learning!)

Laboratory instruction : ensuring an active learning experience

Facilitating experiential learning : service learning, fieldwork, and collaborative research

Using project methods, independent study, and one-on-one teaching

Teaching by distance education

Teaching students how to learn

Teaching thinking

Teaching values : should we? can we?

Ethics in college teaching

Vitality and growth throughout your teaching career.

pt. 1. Getting started: ch.1. Introduction

ch. 2. Countdown for course preparation

ch. 3. Planning your students' learning activities

ch. 4. Meeting a class for the first time

pt. 2. Basic skills for facilitating student learning

ch. 5. Facilitating discussion: posing problems, listening, questioning

ch. 6. Lecturing

ch. 7. Testing and assessing learning: assigning grades is not the most important function

ch. 8. What to do about cheating

ch. 9. ABS'c of assigning grades

pt. 3. Adding to your repertoire of skills and strategies for facilitating student learning: ch. 10. Teaching students to learn through writing: papers, journals, and reports

ch. 11. Teaching students how to learn more from textbooks and other reading

ch. 12. Laboratory teaching: teaching students to think like scientists

ch. 13. Experiential learning: service learning, fieldwork, and collaborative research

ch. 14. Peer learning, collabortive learning, cooperative learning

ch. 15. Project methods, independent study, and one-on-one teaching

ch. 16. Problem-based learning: teaching with cases, simulations, and games

ch. 17. Using communication and information technologies effectively

ch. 18. Class size and sectional courses

ch. 19. Teaching large classes (you can still get active learning)

pt. 4. Understanding students: ch. 20. Taking student social diversity into account

ch. 21. Problem students (there's almost always at least one!)

ch. 22. Counseling and advising

pt. 5. Lifelong learning for you as well as your students: ch. 23. Appraising and improving your teaching: using students, peers, experts, and classroom research

ch. 24. Ethics in college teaching

pt. 6. Teaching for higher-level goals: ch. 25. Motivating students for your course and for lifelong learning

ch. 26. Teaching students how to learn

ch. 27. Teaching thinking

ch. 28. Teaching values: should we? Could we?