A Book with Videos

This book on college teaching comes with videos produced by a college in Colorado that offer teaching vignettes for faculty to ponder and discuss.

Concepts and Choices for Teaching: Meeting the Challenges in Higher Education by William M. Timpson and Paul Bendel-Simso. Madison, WI: Magma Publications, 1996.

Contents

Foreword

Part I: Theoretical Overview of Teaching and Learning

The Climate for Learning
Other Issues for Learning
Development and Conceptualization

Part II: Teaching Strategies

Preparing to Teach
Lecture and Discussion
Encouraging Creativity and Promoting Discovery
Group Learning
Mastery Learning
Metateaching and the Instructional Map
Peer Feedback and Coaching

References

Index

Some Topics

	Sidebars throughout the text discuss individual faculty who are using the principal or method of the chapter.
	Questions on the program, process, and material of education (11-12)
	Each chapter ends with a couple exercises and a list of core concepts.
	Kohlberg’s stage model of moral reasoning (31-33)
	Teaching decisions and teaching roles (51-53)
	A creative process vs. locks on the mind (96-98)
	Readiness to learn (124-125)
	An Instructional Map (131-136)
	Stages of adult development (146)

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