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On Course: A Week-by-Week Guide to Your First Semester of College Teaching
James M. Lang
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Description for On Course: A Week-by-Week Guide to Your First Semester of College Teaching
Paperback. You go into teaching with high hopes: to inspire students, to motivate them to learn, to help them love your subject. Then you find yourself facing a crowd of expectant faces on the first day of the first semester, and you think 'Now what do I do?' This book offers research-based advice for graduate students and new teaching faculty. Num Pages: 336 pages, 2 tables. BIC Classification: JNM; JNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 208 x 139 x 22. Weight in Grams: 384.
You go into teaching with high hopes: to inspire students, to motivate them to learn, to help them love your subject. Then you find yourself facing a crowd of expectant faces on the first day of the first semester, and you think Now what do I do? Practical and lively, On Course is full of experience-tested, research-based advice for graduate students and new teaching faculty. It provides a range of innovative and traditional strategies that work well without requiring extensive preparation or long grading sessions when you're trying to meet your own demanding ... Read more
You go into teaching with high hopes: to inspire students, to motivate them to learn, to help them love your subject. Then you find yourself facing a crowd of expectant faces on the first day of the first semester, and you think Now what do I do? Practical and lively, On Course is full of experience-tested, research-based advice for graduate students and new teaching faculty. It provides a range of innovative and traditional strategies that work well without requiring extensive preparation or long grading sessions when you're trying to meet your own demanding ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Weight
312g
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674047419
SKU
V9780674047419
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About James M. Lang
James M. Lang is Associate Professor of English at Assumption College and former assistant director of the Searle Center for Teaching Excellence at Northwestern University.
Reviews for On Course: A Week-by-Week Guide to Your First Semester of College Teaching
Briskly moving through the basics, [Lang] tackles the hard questions...with humor and insight...On Course is a vital resource for educators, even those who don't fit the first-year college-teaching market. My copy is dotted with notes about new ideas to try out in my lecture class this fall. Happily though, I took away from Lang's guidebook much more than techniques.
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