1st Edition

Teaching Complex Ideas How to Translate Your Expertise into Great Instruction

By Arnold Wentzel Copyright 2019
250 Pages 50 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

250 Pages 50 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

250 Pages 50 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Integrating insights from learning science with practical guidelines and stepwise approaches, Teaching Complex Ideas helps educators masterfully translate their expertise into easy-to-understand, interesting, and memorable instruction. Covering areas such as identifying the critical ideas within a complex topic, designing clear explanations, and making lectures useful and engaging, this... Read more

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Preface

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1: Know what not to teach

Chapter 2: What makes an explanation great?

Chapter 3: A step-by-step approach to explain complex ideas clearly

Chapter 4: Help students to remember creatively and forget as much as possible

Chapter 5: How to make boring and complex ideas interesting

Chapter 6: If you want students to reason like experts, don’t teach them how to reason

Chapter 7: Transform assessments into learning experiences and eliminate cheating

Chapter 8: Create valid conventional assessments but consider alternatives

Chapter 9: Rethink educational technology by noticing what everyone else misses

Chapter 10: Design presentations that make your lectures much more useful

Chapter 11: The future of professor-experts

Biography

Arnold Wentzel is Professor of Innovation Methodology, Management, and Research Writing in the Faculty of Industrial Engineering at the Universidad Antonio Nariño, Colombia.