Innovative techniques for large-group instruction : an NSTA Press journals collection.
Size does matter. When you're faced with a class of 50, 150, or even 250 college students, it's tough to head off boredom - much less promote higher-order thinking and inquiry skills. But it's not impossible, thanks to the professor-tested techniques in this collection of 14 articles...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Arlington, Va. :
NSTA Press,
©2002.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- How do college students best learn science: an assessment of popular teaching styles and their effectiveness / William H. Leonard
- Are we cultivating "couch potatoes" in our college science lectures? / Thomas R. Lord
- Getting there from here: making the transition from traditional teaching practices to those that are student centered / M.W. Caprio and Lynda B. Micikas
- Constructing knowledge in the lecture hall / Daniel J. Klionsky
- Active learning in the lecture hall / Elaine J. Anderson
- The lecture facilitator: sorcerer's apprentice / Donald P. French and Connie P. Russell
- Facilitating the reading/discussion connection in the interactive classroom / Beverly C. Pestel
- A peer-reviewed research assignment for large classes / LaRhee Henderson and Charisse Buising
- An interactive lecture notebook: twelve ways to improve students' grades / John E. Stencel
- Using e-mail to improve communication in the introductory science classroom / Kathryn Hedges and Barbara Mania-Farnell
- Using internet class notes and PowerPoint in the physical geology lecture / Erwin J. Mantei
- Creating direct channels of communication: fostering interaction with e-mail and in-class notes / Gili Marbach-Ad and Phillip G. Sokolove
- Using action research to bring the large class down to size / Jeffrey P. Adams and Timothy F. Slater
- Gauging students' learning in the classroom: an assessment tool to help refine instructors' teaching techniques / Judith E. Heady.