Voices from the Classroom

Reflections on Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
Herausgeber: Newton, Janice; Rehner, Jan; Ginsburg, Jerry

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Produktbeschreibung

Published Under the Garamond Imprint The voices in this book reflect the broad diversity of a large urban university community, with contributions from undergraduate and graduate students, teaching assistants, contract and full-time faculty, staff and administrators. Issues of equity, diversity and power form the foundation of this community's thinking about pedagogy, and the topics span a continuum from the theoretical to the practical. Voices from the Classroom will have a broad appeal to the university teaching community across North America, facing common challenges in the twenty-first century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 662g
• ISBN-13: 9781551930312
• ISBN-10: 1551930315
• Artikelnr.: 35669070

Autorenporträt

Janice Newton is an Associate Professor of Political Science in the Faculty of Arts at York University. Jerry Ginsburg is an Associate Professor of History in the Faculty of Arts at York University. Jan Rehner is an Associate Lecturer in the Centre for Academic Writing, Faculty of Arts at York University. Pat Rogers is a Professor of Education and Mathematics and is the Academic Director of The Centre for the Support of Teaching at York University. John Spencer is an Associate Lecturer in the Centre for Academic Writing, Faculty or Arts at York University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Responsibility, Respect, Research and Reflection in Higher
Education
SECTION I: POWER, DIVERSITY AND EQUITY IN THE CLASSROOM
Introduction
Part One: Student Voices
1. Gender, Power and Silence in the Classroom: Our Experiences Speak for
Themselves
2. Fog and Frustration: The Graduate Student Experience
3. 'Dissertation Dementia': Reflections on One Woman's Graduate Experience
Part Two: Teachers' Voices
1. Power in the Classroom
2. The University Classroom: From Laboratory to Liberatory Education
3. Diversity in the Classroom: Engagement and Resistance
4. Responsibility and Respect in Critical Pedagogy
5. Feminist Pedagogy: Paradoxes in Theory and Practice
6. Teaching 'Women and Men in Organizations': Feminist Pedagogy in the
Business School
7. Empowering Students Through Feminist Pedagogy
8. Heterosexism in the Classroom
9. DisABILITY in the Classroom: The Forgotten Dimension of Diversity?
10. Teaching Students with Learning Disabilities
11. Avoiding the Retrofitted Classroom: Strategies for Teaching Students
with Disabilities
12. Adult Students
13. English-as-a-Second-Language Students
SECTION II: THEORIES AND MODELS OF STUDENT LEARNING
Introduction
1. Teaching Styles/Learning Styles: The Myers Briggs Model
2. The Gregorc Model of Learning Styles
3. Student Development: From Problem-Solving to Problem-Finding
4. Using Theories about Student Learning to Improve Teaching
SECTION III: COURSE DESIGN
Introduction
1. Course Planning: From Design to Active Classroom
2. Developing and Teaching a Science Course: A Junior Faculty Member's
Perspective
3. The Dialectic of Course Development: I Theorize, They React... and Then?
4. Beyond Bare Facts: Teaching Goals in Science
5. 'Why Didn't He Just Say It?': Getting Students Interested in Language
SECTION IV: WORKING WITH GRADUATE STUDENTS
Introduction
1. Graduate Supervisory Practices
2. Working Together: The Teaching Assistant-Professor Relationship
3. Working with Teaching Assistants
4. Issues for International Teaching Assistants
SECTION V: ACADEMIC HONESTY
Introduction
1. Academic Dishonesty
2. Plagiarism and Student Acculturation: Strangers in the Strange Lands of
our Disciplines
3. Plagiarism and the Challenge of Essay Writing: Learning from our
Students
4. Honesty in the Laboratory
5. Electronic Plagiarism: A Cautionary Tale
SECTION VI: TEACHING AND LEARNING STRATEGIES
Introduction
Part One: Lecturing
1. Effective Lecturing Techniques
2. Improving Large-Class Lecturing
3. Improving Student Learning in Lectures
Part Two: Class Participation
1. Dead Silence... A Teacher's Nightmare
2. Evoking and Provoking Student Participation
3. Resistance in the Classroom
4. Computer-Mediated Communication: Some Thoughts about Extending the
Classroom
Part Three: Seminars, Tutorials and Small-Group Learning
1. Study Group Guide for Instructors and Teaching Assistants
2. Warm-Ups: Lessening Student Anxiety in the First Class
3. Small is Beautiful: Using Small Groups to Enhance Student Learning
4. Integrating Group Work into our Classes
5. Scrapbook Presentations: An Exercise in Collaborative Learning
6. The Field Walk
7. Teaching with Cases
8. Stages in Group Dynamics
9. The Joy of Seminars
10. The Office Hour: Not Just Crisis Management
11. Negotiating Power in the Classroom: The Example of Group Work
SECTION VII: ASSIGNMENTS AND EVALUATION
Introduction
Part One: Reading
1. When No One Has Done the Reading
2. A Strategy for Encouraging Students to do Readings
3. Telling a Book by Its Cover
4. The Sherlock Holmes Approach to Critical Reading (Or How to Help
Students Become Good 'Detextives')
Part Two: Research Essays and Other Writing Assignments
1. Sequencing Assignments
2. An Experiment in Writing and Learning Groups
3. Paper Chase: The Sequel
4. Working with Students' Writing
5. What Happens After You Say, 'Please Go to the Writing Centre?'
Part Three: Grading and Evaluation
1. Evaluating Student Writing: Problems and Possibilities
2. Fast, Fair and Constructive: Grading in the Mathematical Sciences
3. An Individualized Approach to Teaching and Evaluation
4. The Norwegian Motivator, or How I Make Grading Work for Me and My
Students
SECTION VIII: DEVELOPING AND ASSESSING YOUR TEACHING
Introduction
Part One: Classroom Assessment
1. Improving Student Learning Through Feedback: Classroom Assessment
Techniques
2. The One-Minute Paper... Two Success Stories
3. Developing the One-Minute Paper
Part Two: Mid-Course Evaluation
1. Formative Evaluation Surveys
2. Facilitating Student Feedback
3. Feedback Strategies
Part Three: Collegial Consultation
1. Peer Pairing
2. Peer Pairing in French Studies
Part Four: Teaching Evaluation Guide
Part Five: Teaching Documentation Guide
Contributors