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The Missing Course: Everything They Never Taught You about College Teaching

Book
Gooblar, David
2019
Harvard University Press
LB1778.G655 2019
Topics: General Overviews   |   Doctoral Students and New Teachers

Additional Info:
Professors know a lot, but they are rarely taught how to teach. The author of the Chronicle of Higher Education’s popular “Pedagogy Unbound” column explains everything you need to know to be a successful college instructor.

College is changing, but the way we train academics is not. Most professors are still trained to be researchers first and teachers a distant second, even as scholars are increasingly expected to excel in the classroom.

There has been a revolution in teaching and learning over the past generation, and we now have a whole new understanding of how the brain works and how students learn. But most academics have neither the time nor the resources to catch up to the latest research or train themselves to be excellent teachers. The Missing Course offers scholars at all levels a field guide to the state of the art in teaching and learning and is packed with invaluable insights to help students learn in any discipline.

Wary of the folk wisdom of the faculty lounge, David Gooblar builds his lessons on the newest findings and years of experience. From active-learning strategies to course design to getting students talking, The Missing Course walks you through the fundamentals of the student-centered classroom, one in which the measure of success is not how well you lecture but how much students learn. Along the way, readers will find ideas and tips they can use in their classrooms right away. (From the Publisher)

Table Of Content:
Introduction: The Students Are the Material
1. Helping Students Revise Themselves: Active Learning Strategies
2. Let Students Own the Course
3. Building a Better Course
4. Teaching the Students in the Room
5. Assessment Isn’t Just Assessment: Giving Students the Right Kind of Feedback
6. What Will We Do Today?: Emphasizing Process
7. Teaching in Tumultuous Times
8. Revise Your Teaching

Notes
Acknowledgments
Index
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