Teaching For Effective Learning In Higher Education

Research on teaching in higher education shows that students who are welltaught learn more than students who are poorly taught and there are someteaching behavi... » 

Research on teaching in higher education shows that students who are welltaught learn more than students who are poorly taught and there are someteaching behaviors and strategies that are consistently associated with goodteaching. This book identifies these strategies and presents them within atheoretical framework that explains how they promote students active andmeaningful learning. By presenting teaching as a logical structure ofinterconnected behaviors whose contribution to student learning is based ontheory and research the book promotes teachers pedagogical knowledge andtheir perception of teaching as scholarly intellectual work. The book providesextensive practical advice that is based on the vast experience of the authoras an instructional consultant and on research on accomplished teachers takenfrom the domains of education psychology and speech communication. Thepractical ideas are separated from the theoretical part in a way that makesthem easily identifiable. The book also puts forth the voice of the studentsthrough authentic comments that they wrote in thousands of instructorevaluation forms that the author collected over many years. «