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Your students aren't reading. They aren't engaged in class. Getting them to talk is like pulling teeth. Whatever the situation, your reality is not meeting your expectations. Change is needed. But who's got the time? Or maybe you're just starting out, and you want to get it right the first time. If so, Teaching College: The Ultimate Guide to Lecturing, Presenting, and Engaging Students is the blueprint. Find out how to hack the world of higher education instruction and have your course become the standard.

Any conversation about effective teaching must begin with a consideration of how students learn. However, instructors may find a gap between resources that focus on the technical research on learning and those that provide practical classroom strategies. How Learning Works provides the bridge for such a gap. Distilling the research literature and translating the scientific approach into language relevant to a college or university teacher, this book introduces seven general principles of how students learn.

Joshua R. Eyler identifies five broad themes running through recent scientific inquiry - curiosity, sociality, emotion, authenticity, and failure - devoting a chapter to each and providing practical takeaways for busy teachers. He also interviews and observes college instructors across the country, placing theoretical insight in dialogue with classroom experience.

50 Things to Know About Teaching at a Community College by author Valerie Jean Kline offers a unique approach to what you should know before you decide to start your career teaching at a community college. Most books on education tell you about the logistical and theoretical aspects of teaching. They focus on the history and groundwork. Believe this. Inspire that. Although there is nothing wrong with that and all teachers should begin with a foundation of belief and passion, Valerie Jean’s take on community college teaching is realistic and straight to the point.

Higher education has seen better days. Harsh budget cuts, the precarious nature of employment in college teaching, and political hostility to the entire enterprise of education have made for an increasingly fraught landscape. Radical Hope is an ambitious response to this state of affairs, at once political and practical - the work of an activist, teacher, and public intellectual grappling with some of the most pressing topics at the intersection of higher education and social justice.

This is the long-awaited update on the best-selling book that offers a practical, accessible reference manual for faculty in any discipline. This new edition contains up-to-date information on technology as well as expanding on the ideas and strategies presented in the first edition. It includes more than 61 chapters designed to improve the teaching of beginning, mid-career, or senior faculty members. The topics cover both traditional tasks of teaching as well as broader concerns, such as diversity and inclusion in the classroom and technology in educational settings.

It’s the New Normal for academics. Students are different, classes are different, promotion is different, even parking on campus is different. But, you need to be a productive academic in the New Normal, and you need a guidebook on how to do it. Professor Tim Slater knows how, and in this guidebook for New Normal academics, he’ll teach you how. Author of 26 books, more than a hundred peer reviewed journal articles, awardee of nearly $30M in grants, and winner of numerous academic awards, Dr. Slater is an expert in academic time management. In this short guide, he’ll teach you how to ...

Energize your classrooms with these key techniques for college teaching. Students say the best teachers get them excited about learning, stretch their thinking, and keep them actively involved in class. But with increasingly diverse classrooms and constantly changing technology, each semester throws up new challenges for engaging students.

Geeky Pedagogy is a funny, evidence-based, multidisciplinary, pragmatic, highly accessible guide to the process of learning and relearning how to be an effective college teacher. It is the first college teaching guide that encourages faculty to embrace their inner nerd, inviting listeners to view themselves and their teaching work in light of contemporary discourse that celebrates increasingly diverse geek culture and explores stereotypes about super-smart introverts.

This book is about addressing the college-choosing problem. The rankings, metrics, analytics, college visits, and advice that we use today to help us make these decisions are out of step with the progress individual students are trying to make. They don't give students and families the information and context they need to make such a high-stakes decision about whether and where to get an education.

Much more than a collection of cool tools and apps, The Distance Learning Playbook for College and University Instruction mobilizes decades of Visible Learning® research to reveal those evidence-based strategies that work best in an online environment. Supplemented by opportunities to self-assess and reflect, the book addresses every dynamic that must be in place for students to learn, even at a distance.

What am I doing? I know better than to get involved with a student… And I learned the hard way to never admit my secret. Once I see her in my class, I can't think of anything but her. The way her blonde hair cascades over her shoulders. The way she bites her pink lip when she looks up at me. I know it's wrong, but that just makes me want it more. And when she asks me on a date, I'm powerless. After my divorce, I swore I would never tell anyone my secret. But somehow she knows. Now, she's standing at the foot of the bed, telling me to dress for her. And if I'm a good girl, she promises to ...

Few people in the history of college sports have been more influential or had a bigger impact than Lou Holtz. Winner of the three national Coach of the Year honors, the only coach ever to lead six different schools to season-ending bowl games, and the ninth-winningest coach in college football history, Holtz is still teaching and coaching, although he is no longer on the gridiron.

Are you a new teacher preparing to transition from college to the real-world classroom? Let's be real—many of the strategies you learned in school are unrealistic and ineffective in a classroom. In First Class Teaching you'll find relatable stories that will make you feel less alone and equip you with simple and effective strategies that you can implement immediately to make your first few teaching years a whole lot easier.

In this wonderfully practical and deeply inspiring book, Christian college master teacher Quentin Schultze offers 30 short readings that reveal the heart of effective Christian higher education—what he calls "servant teaching" with faith, skill, and virtue. Each chapter provides a key to motivating students to learn with excellence, compassion, and delight. The book also serves as a journal for identifying your own teaching strengths and highlighting effective instructional practices which you can begin immediately.

From elementary to graduate school, classrooms are now filled with Generation Z students, born 1995-2010. And, much like those in the generations who came before, these students are eager to learn. But, their characteristics, interests, styles, and preferred learning environments are in many ways different from their predecessors. How then can educators effectively leverage the capacities and foster the potential of this generational cohort?In Generation Z Learns, Dr. Corey Seemiller and Meghan Grace, explore the nuances of Generation Z and offer recommendations to enhance the educational ...

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"After Dinner Conversation" Magazine - August 2022 Soul On Sale: The narrator gives his soul to the devil, saying it is "more work than it is worth." The Rapture Module: Tucker makes a mistake at work, gets a promotion, and realizes his life is meaningless. Infrastructure: A woman in her 40's is newly married, and confides in her friend over brunch, they are going to have a baby. Leviathan: An intergalactic cruise ship is damaged and resources are running dangerously low. The Fortune Teller's Confession: A fortune teller asks to be killed by the husband of his mistress. Human Contact: A ...

This book was previously published as “The Teaching Assistant’s Lesson” by Reba Bale. She’s about to learn a painful lesson – while everyone in her class watches! Spoiled college student Jenny missed the sign-up deadline for work-study jobs, so now she’s stuck with whatever jobs they have left. She figures she’s looking at a future wearing a hairnet and flipping burgers in the cafeteria, until her advisor tells her about a teaching assistant job with the notoriously stern Doctor Abrams. Dr. Abrams goes through teaching assistants like tissue, but Jenny is good at charming ...

Online Learning, What You Need to Know to Succeed! is a practical and easy-to-read book that is packed with the information you need to know to be successful with online learning.Whether you are a first-time online learner, or you are just looking for tips to maximize your performance, this book is the one for you. The tips and guidance are a breakthrough in how online learning should be approached to be able to maximize your learning and success. This book is for high school and college students who want to know how to succeed with online learning. With the huge growth in online learning, ...