Science Teaching Essentials
Short Guides to Good Practice
Description
Key Features
- Provides easily digested, practical, research-based information on how to teach
- Allows faculty to efficiently get up-to-speed on a given pedagogy or assessment method
- Addresses the full range of faculty experiences as they being to teach for the first time or want to reinvent how they teach
Readership
Science faculty, health professions faculty (such as faculty at schools of nursing or schools of optometry), and graduate students and post-docs preparing for future faculty careers
Table of Contents
Section 1: The foundations
1. Inclusive teaching: Creating a welcoming, supportive classroom environment
2. Course design: Making choices about constructing your course- Spotlight 1: Writing learning objectives using Bloom’s taxonomy
3. Assignments and exams: Tools to promote engagement, learning, and reflection
- Spotlight 2. Considerations for syllabus writing
- Spotlight 3. Making our courses accessible: Universal Design for Learning
Section 2: Keystone teaching practices
4. Active learning: The student work that builds understanding
5. Group work: Using cooperative learning groups effectively
6. Metacognitive practices: Giving students tools to be self-directed learners
7. Test-enhanced learning: Using retrieval practice to help students learn, with Rachel E. BielSection 3: Pedagogy Toolbox
8. Lecturing
9. Flipping the classroom
10. Using Educational VideosChapter
11. Incorporating research into courses, with Faith Rovenolt.Section 4: Fair and transparent grading practices
12. Writing exams: Good practice for writing multiple choice and constructed response test questions
13. Rubrics: Tools to make grading more fair and efficient
Product details
- No. of pages: 212
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2019
- Published: February 6, 2019
- Imprint: Academic Press
- eBook ISBN: 9780128147030
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128147023