Lecturer's Toolkit : A Practical Guide to Learning, Teaching and Assesment

by Race

• ISBN13: 9780749435400
• ISBN10: 0749435402
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-07-01
• Publisher: FALMER/KP

Summary

"The Lecturer's Toolkit" was first published as a photocopyable ring-bound resource and was an immediate success for all those in higher education seeking to develop learning and teaching skills. Now fully revised, the second edition is available both as a ring-binder and as a paperback edition for the first time. This new edition will be equally valued by individuals and by staff-developers for group work.Building on the practical strengths of the first edition, the toolkit is an important resource for all teachers in higher education, whatever their experience, who are seeking to improve teaching skills. The book offers practical guidance on the core elements of effective teaching in higher education.

Table of Contents

Preface	v
Acknowledgements	ix
Learning - a natural human process	1	(30)
Intended outcomes of this chapter	1	(1)
Never mind the teaching - feel the learning!	1	(1)
Theories of learning	2	(2)
Factors underpinning successful learning	4	(5)
Learning cycles	9	(3)
Ways to increase students' motivation	12	(5)
Developing students' competencies	17	(4)
Positioning the goalposts - designing and using learning outcomes	21	(5)
Conclusions about learning	26	(1)
Responses	27	(4)
Designing assessment and feedback to enhance learning	31	(73)
Intended outcomes of this chapter	31	(1)
Putting assessment and feedback into perspective	31	(2)
Values for an assessment code of practice	33	(2)
Reasons to assess	35	(1)
Concerns about assessment	36	(5)
Pros and cons of fifteen assessment techniques	41	(45)
Feedback and assessment	86	(6)
Reducing your load: short cuts to good feedback	92	(2)
Involving students in their own assessment	94	(9)
Conclusions	103	(1)
Refreshing your lecturing	104	(36)
Intended outcomes of this chapter	104	(1)
Those who may need their lecturing refreshing	104	(1)
The importance of the act of lecturing	105	(1)
Reasons to have lectures	106	(2)
Some things students do in lectures	108	(1)
Some productive lecture processes	109	(2)
Using handouts to enhance students' learning	111	(1)
Using handouts: some practical suggestions	111	(5)
Linking learning to teaching in lectures	116	(2)
Beginnings, middles and endings	118	(3)
Planning 60 minutes for learning: an example for discussion	121	(2)
Practical pointers on preparing and giving lectures	123	(4)
Using the tools of the trade in lecture rooms	127	(10)
Peer observation of lecturing	137	(3)
Making small-group teaching work	140	(47)
Intended outcomes of this chapter	140	(1)
Why small-group learning is so important	140	(2)
Deciding on group size	142	(2)
Ways of forming groups	144	(5)
Small-group process techniques	149	(6)
Leading and following	155	(4)
Things that can go wrong in small groups	159	(10)
A closer look at tutorials	169	(3)
Practical pointers for making small-group teaching work	172	(5)
Learning and using names	177	(1)
Home groups	178	(2)
Action-learning sets	180	(1)
Tutorless groups	181	(2)
Conflict in group work	183	(2)
Gender issues in group work	185	(2)
Resource-based learning	187	(34)
Intended outcomes of this chapter	187	(1)
Some terms and buzz-phrases	188	(2)
Reasons to use resource-based learning	190	(2)
The main components of resource-based learning materials	192	(2)
Adopting, adapting or starting from scratch	194	(1)
Materials that you can adapt	194	(1)
A strategy for designing resource-based learning materials	195	(2)
A quality checklist for resource-based learning materials	197	(8)
Learning from glass	205	(1)
Is this screenful actually working?	206	(1)
Practical pointers on resource-based learning	206	(5)
Writing new resource-based learning materials	211	(3)
Choosing computer-based learning resources	214	(3)
The Internet: the greatest learning resource?	217	(4)
Looking after yourself	221	(52)
Intended outcomes of this chapter	221	(1)
Managing your workload	222	(1)
Managing your stress levels	223	(2)
Managing your colleagues	225	(2)
Managing your meetings	227	(2)
Managing your teaching portfolio	229	(3)
Managing your appraisal	232	(5)
Managing your subject review	237	(8)
Managing your ILT application	245	(10)
Managing your feedback from students	255	(11)
Suggestions on ways of using questionnaires	266	(7)
References and further reading	273	(3)
Index	276