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Price: $19.95 (as of 2016-09-12 19:00:48 PST)
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Description"To My Professor: Student Voices for Great College Teaching" begins with remarks by students about their professors. They tend not to be the kind of remarks that professors usually hear, and some are harsh. Others are full of gratitude for teachers who inspire and motivate. The "To My Professor" statements are really just starting points that lead to advice from master teachers. Teaching college is difficult and this book has some potential solutions. More than 50 chapters cover situations including expectations, communication, technology, race, gender and religion, mental and physical health.CONTENTS
Don't serve lessons after their freshness dates Being available for students: Making office hours count Mutual civility means knowing and respecting your audience Going beyond grades to feedback and growth Student safety matters on and off campus
Loafers and lax rules give group work a bad reputation There is an arms race and many shades of gray in academic fraud
Profane professors: Tactical or tacky? A professor walks into a classroom: Humor 101 College can be a lonely place for conservatives Remarks about appearances are more than skin deep
PowerPoint: weapon of class destruction Managing the demons of digital distraction Online classes: love/hate relationship
Check-ins help transfer students shake freshman feelings Invisible population: How to help student-parents keep up Veterans transitioning to a new theater of operation on campus For older students, college is a stage, not an age Commuter students in the classroom Getting athletes to bring their A-game to academics
Helping students' mental health and well-being Profs can help with attention and executive functioning Autism spectrum issues are different but can be helped Food allergies, an overlooked health hazard How instructors support visually impaired students For hard-of-hearing students, simple changes make learning easier You can't always see something is wrong just by looking Unreported disabilities: How to help while respecting privacy
#BlackOnCampus is about what goes on inside classrooms, too Teaching the growing population of Latino students Beyond face value: The diversity and depth of Asian Americans Native Americans: Dealing with cultural misunderstandings Ahead of the curve: Teaching toward more varied diversity Assumptions about identity are no substitute for knowing
Holidays that university calendars might not include 'I hope you're not hiding any guns under your headscarf today' Students singled out as Jewish, even when they're not Campus Christians can find their beliefs challenged
For international instructors, bridging languages is a process For those new to the language, English can be a sentence
Breaking down the walls of career gender stereotypes Breaking the binary: Seeing sexuality as a spectrum Transitioning on campus: finding and redefining identity
Texts and supplemental materials can be expensive seem superfluous
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