Teaching for Learning: 101 Intentionally Designed Educational Activities to Put Students on the Path to Success

by Claire Howell Major, Michael S. Harris, Todd D. Zakrajsek

Overview

Teaching for Learning is a comprehensive, practical resource for instructors that highlights and synthesizes proven teaching methods and active learning strategies. Each of the 101 entries describes an approach and lists its essential features and elements, demonstrates how the approach may be used in various educational contexts, reviews findings from the research literature, and describes techniques to improve effectiveness. Fully revised and updated to reflect the latest research and innovations in the field, this second edition also features critical new content on adapting techniques for use in online courses.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367469368
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/30/2021
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	434
Sales rank:	724,693
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Claire Howell Major is Professor of Higher Education at the University of Alabama, U.S.A.

Michael S. Harris is Professor of Higher Education and Director of the Center for Teaching Excellence at Southern Methodist University, U.S.A.

Todd D. Zakrajsek is Associate Director of the Faculty Development Fellowship in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, U.S.A., and President of the International Teaching Learning Cooperative.

Table of Contents

1. Lectures  2. Discussion  3. Peer Teaching  4. Academic Games  5. Reading  6. Writing  7. Graphic Organizers  8. Metacognitive Reflection

Editorial Reviews

"What a valuable catalog of 101 learning activities! And they adapt easily to almost any course. Each activity is an evidence-based variation on one of eight major instructional methods (e.g., lecture, discussion, graphic organizers, academic games). An instructor need never run out of effective teaching and learning strategies."

Linda B. Nilson. Director, Office of Teaching Effectiveness and Innovation, Clemson University, USA

"This expertly catalogued book provides an impressive number of well-planned, evidence-based teaching and learning approaches along with references to the research that confirms their outcomes. Instructors will be excited to apply these strategies to the teaching challenges and opportunities that they encounter."

Milton D. Cox, Director of the Original Lilly Conference on College Teaching, and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal on Excellence in College Teaching and the Learning Communities Journal

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