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The Excellent Teacher Series


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This series offers fresh approaches to teaching and learning by reviewing traditional methods in light of evidence-based strategies to promote practices that best facilitate student learning. Each volume of the series is written to provide early career faculty with specific strategies that can be quickly implemented, mid-career faculty with the opportunity to adapt and expand on what is currently used, and experienced faculty with new perspectives to augment thinking on foundational aspects of teaching and student learning. These succinct and practical books, by authors with extensive experience, are designed to address ubiquitous classroom challenges faced by faculty throughout higher education, whether contract or tenured, or teaching at two-year or research-one institutions.

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Advancing Online Teaching Creating Equity-Based Digital Learning Environments

Advancing Online Teaching: Creating Equity-Based Digital Learning Environments

1st Edition

By Kevin Kelly, Todd D. Zakrajsek
December 29, 2020

The goal of teaching online is fundamentally the same as teaching face-to-face: facilitating the learning of all students to the greatest extent possible. This book differs from other books on online teaching in that, in the process of offering guidance on course design and planning, developing ...

Designing a Motivational Syllabus Creating a Learning Path for Student Engagement

Designing a Motivational Syllabus: Creating a Learning Path for Student Engagement

1st Edition

By Christine Harrington, Melissa Thomas
May 17, 2018

A thoughtfully constructed syllabus can be transformative for your students’ learning, communicating the path they can take to succeed. This book demonstrates how, rather than being a mundane document to convey policies, you can construct your syllabus to be a motivating resource that conveys a ...

Dynamic Lecturing Research-Based Strategies to Enhance Lecture Effectiveness

Dynamic Lecturing: Research-Based Strategies to Enhance Lecture Effectiveness

1st Edition

By Christine Harrington, Todd D. Zakrajsek
July 20, 2017

Is the lecture an outmoded teaching method that inhibits active learning or is it a potentially powerful tool that is an essential part of every teacher’s repertoire?This book presents up-to-date research on the different types of lecture, on what constitutes effective lecturing, and on the impact ...

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