McKeachie's Teaching Tips: Strategies, Research, and Theory for College and University Teachers

Part I: GETTING STARTED. 1. Introduction. 2. Countdown for Course Preparation. 3. Meeting a Class for the First Time. Part II: BASIC SKILLS FOR FACILITATING STUDENT LEARNING. 4. Reading as Active Learning. 5. Facilitating Discussion: Posing Problems, Listening, Questioning. 6. How to Make Lectures More Effective. 7. Assessing, Testing, and Evaluating: Grading Is Not the Most Important Function. 8. Testing: The Details. 9. Good Designs for Written Feedback for Students. 10. The ABC's of Assigning Grades. Part III: UNDERSTANDING STUDENTS. 11. Motivation in the College Classroom. 12. Teaching Culturally Diverse Students. 13. Dealing with Student Problems and Problem Students (There's Almost Always at Least One!).…