Essential Teaching Principles: A Resource Collection for Adjunct Faculty

Essential Teaching Principles: A Resource Collection for Adjunct Faculty

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.<br /><br />To compound the challenge, formal training for adjuncts is often scarce or spotty at best.<br /><br />What are you to do, then, to acquire the skills and knowledge necessary for classroom success?<br /><br />This book 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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />Featuring contributions from an exceptional assembly of experienced educators, <br />it is organized into seven chapters, each focused on a core aspect of teaching:<br /><br /> •Mastering instruction essentials<br /> •Designing courses<br /> •Advancing student learning<br /> •Creating an optimal learning climate<br /> •Constructing meaningful assessments<br /> •Giving students feedback<br /> •Teaching online<br /><br />Throughout the guide, you will find careful examinations of a wide range of issues critical to classroom success. These include:<br /><br /> •Build a syllabus<br /> •Use active learning to keep students engaged<br /> •“Right-size” course content<br /> •Develop meaningful assignments<br /> •Manage a classroom<br /> •Develop a “teaching persona”<br /> •Create a good climate for learning<br /> •Develop effective exams and quizzes <br /> •Protect academic integrity<br /> •Make grading both meaningful and manageable <br /><br />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.<br /><br />Compact and reader-friendly, this book 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.<br /><br />Enter the classroom as confident in your teaching ability as you are in your subject-matter knowledge - read this book today.<br /><br />Bulk Purchases<br />To purchase multiple print copies of this book, visit:<br />www.MagnaGroupBooks.com<br />