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List of contents
List of Figures and Tables
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: The Lecture Method
1 Guided Note-taking
2 Pause Procedure
3 Punctuated Lecture
4 Wake-Up Call
5 Interpreted Lecture
6 Responsive lecture
7 Socratic Seminar
8 Take a Guess
9 Lecture Bingo
10 Find the Flaw
11 Field Lecture
Chapter 2: The Discussion MEthod
12 Snowball
13 What If
14 Scored Discussion
15 Think-Pair-Share
16 In the News
17 Formal Argument
18 Circle of Voices
19 Can We Have Class Outside?
20 Seeded Discussion
21 Observation Team Discussion
22 Campus and Community Events
23 Journal Club
24 Case Study
Chapter 3: Reciprocal Peer Teaching
25 Note-Taking Pairs
26 Pairs Check
27 Milling
28 Gallery Walk
29 Anonymous Cards
30 Each One, Teach One
31 Jigsaw
32 Microteaching
33 Panel Presentation
34 Clustering
35 Speed Interviews
Chapter 4: Academic Games
36 Crossword Puzzles
37 Scavenger Hunt
38 Who Am I?
39 Pictionary
40 Trivia
41 Hollywood Squares
42 Houston, We Have a Problem
43 Monopoly
44 Role Play
45 Taboo
46 Icebreakers
47 Top 10
48 Pic of the Day
49 Webquest
Chapter 5: Reading
50 Anticipation Guide
51 Experience-Text-Relationship
52 Directed Reading and Thinking
53 SQ3R
54 What Counts as Fact?
55 Problematic Situation
56 Text Coding
57 Question-Answer Relationship
58 Three Level Reading Guide
59 What Would You Ask?
60 Research Paper Reviewer
61 Select a Sentence
Chapter 6: Writing to Learn
62 Brainstorming
63 Freewriting
64 Speak-Write Pairs
65 Graffiti Board
66 Journaling
67 Reader Response Paper
68 Journals
69 Sentence Passage Springboard
70 Interviews
71 Wikipedia Article
72 Annotations
73 Yesterday’s News
74 Field Notes
75 Interview Protocols
76 Critical Book Review
Chapter 7: Graphic Organizers
77 Hypothesis Proof Organizer
78 Venn Diagrams
79 Concept Maps
80 Main Idea-Detail Chart
81 Timeline
82 Visual Lists
83 3-2-1 Process
84 Matrix
85 Cause & Effect Chains
86 K-W-L Chart
87 Zone of Relevance
88 Force Field Analysis
89 Author Charts
Chapter 8: Metacognitive Reflection
90 Today I Learned
91 Shadow a Professional
92 Wrappers
93 Visible Classroom Opinion Poll
94 140-Character Memoir
95 Self Assessment
96 Group Assessment
97 Elevator Pitch
98 Learning Log
99 Cultural Encounters
100 Post Hoc Analysis
Conclusion
101 DIY IDEA
About the author
Claire Howell Major is Professor of Higher Education Administration at the University of Alabama, USA.
Michael S. Harris is Associate Professor of Higher Education and Director of the Center for Teaching Excellence at Southern Methodist University, USA.
Todd Zakrajsek is Associate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA, and President of the International Teaching Learning Cooperative, USA.
Summary
Despite a growing body of research on teaching methods, instructors lack a comprehensive resource that highlights and synthesizes proven approaches. Teaching for Learning fills that gap. Each of the one hundred and one entries:
- describes an approach and lists its essential features and elements
- demonstrates how that approach has been used in education, including specific examples from different disciplines
- reviews findings from the research literature
- describes techniques to improve effectiveness.
Teaching for Learning provides instructors with a resource grounded in the academic knowledge base, written in an easily accessible, engaging, and practical style.
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"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
