Lecturer's Toolkit : A Practical Guide to

"The Lecturer's Toolkit" was first published as a photocopyable ring-bound resource and was an immediate success for all those in higher education seeking to develop learning and teaching skills. Now fully revised, the second edition is available both as a ring-binder and as a paperback edition for the first time. This new edition will be equally valued by individuals and by staff-developers for group work.Building on the practical strengths of the first edition, the toolkit is an important resource for all teachers in higher education, whatever their experience, who are seeking to improve teaching skills. The book offers practical guidance on the core elements of effective teaching in higher education.

Preface

v

Acknowledgements

ix

Learning - a natural human process

1

(30)

Intended outcomes of this chapter

1

(1)

Never mind the teaching - feel the learning!

1

(1)

Theories of learning

2

(2)

Factors underpinning successful learning

4

(5)

Learning cycles

9

(3)

Ways to increase students' motivation

12

(5)

Developing students' competencies

17

(4)

Positioning the goalposts - designing and using learning outcomes

21

(5)

Conclusions about learning

26

(1)

Responses

27

(4)

Designing assessment and feedback to enhance learning

31

(73)

Intended outcomes of this chapter

31

(1)

Putting assessment and feedback into perspective

31

(2)

Values for an assessment code of practice

33

(2)

Reasons to assess

35

(1)

Concerns about assessment

36

(5)

Pros and cons of fifteen assessment techniques

41

(45)

Feedback and assessment

86

(6)

Reducing your load: short cuts to good feedback

92

(2)

Involving students in their own assessment

94

(9)

Conclusions

103

(1)

Refreshing your lecturing

104

(36)

Intended outcomes of this chapter

104

(1)

Those who may need their lecturing refreshing

104

(1)

The importance of the act of lecturing

105

(1)

Reasons to have lectures

106

(2)

Some things students do in lectures

108

(1)

Some productive lecture processes

109

(2)

Using handouts to enhance students' learning

111

(1)

Using handouts: some practical suggestions

111

(5)

Linking learning to teaching in lectures

116

(2)

Beginnings, middles and endings

118

(3)

Planning 60 minutes for learning: an example for discussion

121

(2)

Practical pointers on preparing and giving lectures

123

(4)

Using the tools of the trade in lecture rooms

127

(10)

Peer observation of lecturing

137

(3)

Making small-group teaching work

140

(47)

Intended outcomes of this chapter

140

(1)

Why small-group learning is so important

140

(2)

Deciding on group size

142

(2)

Ways of forming groups

144

(5)

Small-group process techniques

149

(6)

Leading and following

155

(4)

Things that can go wrong in small groups

159

(10)

A closer look at tutorials

169

(3)

Practical pointers for making small-group teaching work

172

(5)

Learning and using names

177

(1)

Home groups

178

(2)

Action-learning sets

180

(1)

Tutorless groups

181

(2)

Conflict in group work

183

(2)

Gender issues in group work

185

(2)

Resource-based learning

187

(34)

Intended outcomes of this chapter

187

(1)

Some terms and buzz-phrases

188

(2)

Reasons to use resource-based learning

190

(2)

The main components of resource-based learning materials

192

(2)

Adopting, adapting or starting from scratch

194

(1)

Materials that you can adapt

194

(1)

A strategy for designing resource-based learning materials

195

(2)

A quality checklist for resource-based learning materials

197

(8)

Learning from glass

205

(1)

Is this screenful actually working?

206

(1)

Practical pointers on resource-based learning

206

(5)

Writing new resource-based learning materials

211

(3)

Choosing computer-based learning resources

214

(3)

The Internet: the greatest learning resource?

217

(4)

Looking after yourself

221

(52)

Intended outcomes of this chapter

221

(1)

Managing your workload

222

(1)

Managing your stress levels

223

(2)

Managing your colleagues

225

(2)

Managing your meetings

227

(2)

Managing your teaching portfolio

229

(3)

Managing your appraisal

232

(5)

Managing your subject review

237

(8)

Managing your ILT application

245

(10)

Managing your feedback from students

255

(11)

Suggestions on ways of using questionnaires

266

(7)

References and further reading

273

(3)

Index

276

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Lecturer's Toolkit : A Practical Guide to Learning, Teaching and Assesment

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