Tools for Teaching in Higher Education
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Authenticity in and through Teaching in Higher Education
The transformative potential of the scholarship of teaching
What does it mean to be authentic? Why should it matter whether or not we become more authentic? How might authenticity inform and enhance the social practice of the scholarship of university teaching and, by implication, the learning and development of students? Authenticity in and through...
Published January 22nd 2013 by Routledge
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University Teaching
An Introductory Guide
University Teaching: An Introductory Guide is a vital tool for the new lecturer that aims to encourage and support an inquiry into university teaching and academic life. This book understands that teaching is not discrete but one of many activities integrated in academic work. It recognizes that...
Published April 25th 2012 by Routledge
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University Teaching in Focus
A learning-centred approach
University Teaching in Focus provides a foundational springboard for early career academics preparing to teach in universities. Focusing on four critical areas - teaching, curriculum, students, and quality/leadership - this succinct resource offers university teachers a straightforward approach to...
Published November 4th 2012 by Routledge
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A Faculty Guide to Addressing Disruptive and Dangerous Behavior
College and university faculty are asked to serve an increasingly diverse and at-risk population of students. They face disruptive and dangerous behaviors that range from speaking out of turn or misusing technology, to potentially aggressive behavior. Faculty members are not necessarily prepared or...
To Be Published July 14th 2013 by Routledge
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Integrating Writing Strategies in EFL/ESL University Contexts
A Writing-Across-the-Curriculum Approach
Clearly explaining writing-across-the-curriculum (WAC) pedagogy for English language teachers in university settings, this book offers an accessible guide to integrating writing and speaking tasks across the curriculum and in disciplinary courses. Teachers will find this book useful because its...
Published July 10th 2012 by Routledge
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Educating College Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders
Educating College Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders is one of the first books to specifically address the accommodation of students with significant learning differences in postsecondary education. Developed with the support of Autism Speaks, and piloted at Pace University, each component of...
Published August 26th 2012 by Routledge
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Understanding Undergraduates
Challenging our preconceptions of student success
Series: SEDA Series
Most university teachers have ideas about the typical good or not-so-good student in their classes, but rarely do they share these thoughts with others. By keeping quiet about the preconceptions – or stereotypes – they harbour, teachers put themselves at risk of missing key evidence to help them...
Published March 20th 2012 by Routledge
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University Teaching
An Introductory Guide
University Teaching: An Introductory Guide is a vital tool for the new lecturer that aims to encourage and support an inquiry into university teaching and academic life. This book understands that teaching is not discrete but one of many activities integrated in academic work. It recognizes that...
Published April 25th 2012 by Routledge
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Developing Inquiry for Learning
Reflecting Collaborative Ways to Learn How to Learn in Higher Education
Developing Inquiry for Learning shows how university tutors can help students to improve their abilities to learn and to become professional inquirers. An increasing proportion of students entering higher education seem to assume that learning is a relatively passive process. This may be the...
Published June 15th 2011 by Routledge
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Becoming a New Instructor
A Guide for College Adjuncts and Graduate Students
Becoming a New Instructor guides new instructors through the planning, preparation, and execution of their first class, whether it is in person or online. Like any good mentor, this book provides clear, simple instructions and makes best-practice recommendations. Becoming a New Instructor provides...
Published December 12th 2011 by Routledge
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Improving Student Engagement and Development through Assessment
Theory and practice in higher education
With a unique focus on the relationship between assessment and engagement this book explores what works in terms of keeping students on course to succeed. Against a backdrop of massification and the associated increase in student diversity there is an escalating requirement for personalized,...
Published May 13th 2012 by Routledge
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Using Games to Enhance Learning and Teaching
A Beginner's Guide
Using Games to Enhance Learning and Teaching provides educators with easy and practical ways of using games to support student engagement and learning. Despite growing interest in digital game-based learning and teaching, until now most teachers have lacked the resources or technical knowledge to...
Published May 16th 2012 by Routledge
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Teaching with Emotional Intelligence
A step-by-step guide for Higher and Further Education professionals, 2nd Edition
The way teachers shape and handle their own feelings and those of their learners is central to the success of learning. Now in its second edition, Teaching with Emotional Intelligence shows how to manage this influential yet neglected area of learning and teaching. This practical book looks at how...
Published August 17th 2011 by Routledge
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Teaching Academic Writing
A Toolkit for Higher Education
Student academic writing is at the heart of teaching and learning in higher education. Students are assessed largely by what they write, and need to learn both general academic conventions as well as disciplinary writing requirements in order to be successful in higher education.Teaching Academic...
Published November 6th 2002 by Routledge
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Learning to Teach in Higher Education
2nd Edition
This bestselling book is a unique introduction to the practice of university teaching and its underlying theory. This new edition has been fully revised and updated in view of the extensive changes which have taken place in higher education over the last decade and includes new material on the...
Published May 7th 2003 by Routledge
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Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching in Higher Education
Theory and Practice
As universities increasingly offer courses that break the confines of a single subject area, more students are enrolling on interdisciplinary programmes within multidisciplinary departments. Teaching and learning within interdisciplinary study requires new approaches, including an understanding of...
Published January 14th 2009 by Routledge
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Learning in Groups
A Handbook for Face-to-Face and Online Environments, 4th Edition
Learning in groups, rather than in formal lectures or presentations, allows students to have greater scope to negotiate meaning and express themselves and their own ideas. It also helps them to establish far more effective releationships, not only with their tutors and trainers but with each other....
Published December 20th 2006 by Routledge
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Designing Learning
From Module Outline to Effective Teaching
Series: Key Guides for Effective Teaching in Higher Education
Written in an informative and jargon-free style, this book is guided by principles of good practice and covers the relevant theory to deal with the essential aspects of designing a course. Important areas covered include: learning levels and outcomes aligning learning and teaching strategies...
Published October 4th 2006 by Routledge
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The Lecturer's Toolkit
A Practical Guide to Assessment, Learning and Teaching, 3rd Edition
The Lecturer’s Toolkit is the primary resource for all teachers in higher education, whatever their experience, who are seeking to improve their teaching skills. Developed around detailed, practical guidance on the core elements of effective teaching in HE, it is packed full of accessible...
Published August 30th 2006 by Routledge
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Enhancing University Teaching
Lessons from Research into Award-Winning Teachers
Written by experts in the field, this book aims to provide an alternative approach to quality teaching in higher education by deriving a model of good university teaching from the academics which universities have chosen as their best teachers. Award-winning teachers outline their beliefs and...
Published March 21st 2007 by Routledge
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A Handbook for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
Enhancing Academic Practice, 3rd Edition
The Handbook is sensitive to the competing demands of teaching, research and scholarship, and academic management. Against the contexts, the book focuses on developing professional academic skills for teaching. Dealing with the rapid expansion of the use of technology in higher education and...
Published August 28th 2008 by Routledge
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New Approaches to Problem-based Learning
Revitalising Your Practice in Higher Education
Problem-based learning (PBL) is a pedagogical approach that has the capacity to create vibrant and active learning environments in higher education. However, both experienced PBL practitioners and those new to PBL often find themselves looking for guidance on how to engage and energise a PBL...
Published September 26th 2010 by Routledge