Pandemic Teaching: A Survival Guide for College Faculty

by Kevin Patton

Overview

As teaching faculty across the globe scramble to move their on-campus courses to a remote-learning format, veteran teaching mentor Kevin Patton provides a quick and dirty survival guide to get things started--and keep things going. Having had the experience of moving from on-campus to online teaching, Kevin leverages his failures and triumphs into a quick guide to what's important and what's not as you make your transition in this disorienting time of pandemic teaching.

The first section of the book provides a list of quick tips, strategies, and helpful mindsets--all based on Patton's real-life practical experience. The second part of the book expands on some of those quick tips to give further advice for implementing them.

Written in an informal, conversational style, this book gives useful advice and empathetic support as you survive your own experience of pandemic teaching.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781393977919
Publisher:	Lion Den Inc.
Publication date:	01/18/2021
Series:	Lion Tamers Guide to Teaching , #1
Pages:	124
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.29(d)

About the Author

Kevin Patton is an award-winning college professor who has taught at secondary, college, university, and graduate levels in the biological sciences, with an emphasis in human anatomy and physiology. After taking an early retirement from full-time teaching, he continues to teach part-time in online undergraduate courses and in a graduate program that trains college faculty. He is the author of several popular textbooks and manuals. Kevin is also a well-known blogger and podcaster in teaching and learning. H esays that his love for teaching goes back to is youth, when he was an apprentice lion tamer-and he still loves engaging even the most challenging of students!