| Title : | The lecturer’s toolkit : a practical guide to learning, teaching & assessment | | Material Type: | printed text | | Authors: | Phil Race, Author | | Edition statement: | 3rd ed | | Publisher: | London : Kogan Page | | Publication Date: | 2007 | | Other publisher: | Sterling : Stylus Pub. | | ISBN (or other code): | 978-0-415-40382-5 | | General note: | Includes bibliographical references and index | | Languages : | English (eng) | | Descriptors: | College teaching - Handbooks, manuals, etc
| | Class number: | 378.1 | | Abstract: | The Lecturer’s Toolkit is the primary resource for all teachers in higher education, whatever their experience, who are seeking to improve their teaching skills. Developed around detailed, practical guidance on the core elements of effective teaching in HE, it is packed full of accessible advice and helpful tips. This fully updated edition covers key topics including:
learning styles
assessment
lecturing
personal management skills
formative feedback
large and small group teaching
blended learning
resource based and online learning
peer observation of teaching.
The Lecturer’s Toolkit is essential for anyone working towards a profesisonal qualification in teaching in higher education as well as for those who want to reflect on and develop existing skills. | | Contents note: | Learning - a natural human process; Never mind the teaching ? feel the learning!; Theories and models of learning; Deep, surface or strategic learning?; Factors underpinning successful learning; How can we increase students? motivation?; Developing students' competences; Learning and understanding; Positioning the goalposts ? designing and using learning outcomes; Conclusions about learning; Designing assessment and feedback to enhance learning; Putting assessment and feedback into perspective; Values for assessment; Why should we assess?; Concerns about assessment; Pros and cons of fifteen assessment techniques; Traditional unseen, time-constrained written exams; Open-book exams; Open-notes exams; Structured exams; Essays; Reviews and annotated bibliographies; Reports; Practical work; Portfolios; Presentations; Vivas ? oral exams; Student projects; Poster-displays and exhibitions; Dissertations and theses; Work-based learning; Making formative feedback work; Quality of feedback; Feedback and competence development; Reducing your load: short cuts to good feedback; Involving students in their own assessment; Conclusions; Refreshing your lecturing; How important is the act of lecturing?; Why have lectures?; Some things students do in lectures; Some productive lecture processes; Using handouts to enhance students? learning; Causing learning to happen in lecture contexts; Beginnings, middles and endings; Using technologies ? old and new; Peer-observation of lecturing; Making the most of lectures; Making small-group teaching work; Why is small group learning so important?; Deciding on group size; Ways of forming groups; Small group process techniques; Leading and following; What goes wrong in small groups?; Group member behaviours which damage group work; Group facilitator behaviours which can damage group work; A closer look at tutorials; Practical pointers for group work; Resource-based and online learning; Some terms and buzz-phrases; What are the main components of resource-based learning materials?; Adopt, adapt, or start from scratch?; A strategy for designing resource-based learning materials; A quality checklist for resource-based learning materials; Learning from screens?; Practical pointers on resource-based learning; Looking after yourself; Managing your workload; Managing your stress levels; Managing your appraisal; Managing your feedback from students; Feedback on your lectures; A variety of feedback mechanisms; Some limitations of questionnaires; Some advantages of questionnaire feedback; Some ideas on structured questions; Some ideas for open questions; Computer-analysed feedback; Suggestions on ways of using questionnaires; Feedback from interviews with students; Feedback from groups of students; Issues, challenges and reflections; Equal opportunities and inclusive practice; Plagiarism; Working with international students; Evidencing your reflections on assessment, learning and teaching | | Record link: | https://library.seeu.edu.mk/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=1236 |
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