Essential Teaching Principles: A Resource Collection for Adjunct Faculty

Essential Teaching Principles: A Resource Collection for Adjunct Faculty

<p>You enter the classroom as a subject-matter expert—but not necessarily as a teaching expert. You face the daunting prospect of quickly getting up to speed on teaching’s myriad responsibilities.</p> <p>To compound the challenge, formal training for adjuncts is often scarce or spotty at best.</p> <p>What are you to do, then, to acquire the skills and knowledge necessary for classroom success?</p> <p><strong><em>Essential Teaching Principles: A Resource Collection for Adjunct Faculty</em></strong> was created to meet that very need. It provides a wealth of both research-driven and classroom-tested best practices to help adjuncts develop the knowledge and skills required to run a successful classroom.</p> <p>A collection of dozens of articles drawn from the pages of <em>The Teaching Professor</em> newsletter, this helpful guide was compiled and edited to ensure student success by Maryellen Weimer, PhD, the newsletter’s longtime editor and an award-winning professor emerita of teaching and learning at Penn State Berks.</p> <p>Featuring contributions from an exceptional assembly of experienced educators, <strong><em>Essential Teaching Principles: A Resource Collection for Adjunct Faculty</em></strong> is organized into seven chapters, each focused on a core aspect of teaching:</p> <ul> <li>Mastering instruction essentials</li> <li>Designing courses</li> <li>Advancing student learning</li> <li>Creating an optimal learning climate</li> <li>Constructing meaningful assessments</li> <li>Giving students feedback</li> <li>Teaching online</li> </ul> <p>Throughout the guide, you will find careful examinations of a wide range of issues critical to classroom success. These include:</p> <ul> <li>Build a syllabus</li> <li>Use active learning to keep students engaged</li> <li>“Right-size” course content</li> <li>Develop meaningful assignments</li> <li>Manage a classroom</li> <li>Develop a “teaching persona”</li> <li>Create a good climate for learning</li> <li>Develop effective exams and quizzes</li> <li>Protect academic integrity</li> <li>Make grading both meaningful and manageable</li> </ul> <p>For those whose work also takes them into the online classroom, there is an entire chapter devoted to the fundamentals of teaching in that space as well.</p> <p>Compact and reader-friendly, <strong><em>Essential Teaching Principles: A Resource Collection for Adjunct Faculty</em></strong> is conveniently organized to serve as a ready reference whenever a new teaching challenge arises—whether it’s refreshing older course design, overcoming a student’s objection to a grade, or fine-tuning assessments. And because each of its dozens of articles include references and resource lists, it’s easy to pursue a given subject in even greater depth.</p> <p><strong><em>Essential Teaching Principles: A Resource Collection for Adjunct Faculty</em></strong> lets you enter the classroom as confident in your teaching ability as you are in your subject-matter knowledge. It’s an important step forward in your professional development.</p> <p><strong>Bulk Purchases</strong></p> <p>To purchase multiple print copies of this book, visit www.MagnaGroupBooks.com</p>