TY  - BOOK
AU  - Provitera-McGlynn,Angela
TI  - Successful beginnings for college teaching: engaging your students from the first day 
SN  - 1891859382 (pbk.)
AV  - LB 2331 .P768 2001
PY  - 2001///
CY  - Madison, WI
PB  - Atwood Pub.
KW  - College teaching
KW  - College teachers
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 149-156); Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; CHAPTER 1; Classroom and course management --; Nuts and bolts of successful beginnings --; Teach students to do well in your course --; Make your attendance policy clear --; Gather information about your students --; Accomodate students who have special needs --; Some ideas on promoting student success --; Clarifying your testing policy --; Issue of academic integrity --; Some quick tips on managing the learning environment --; Guidelines for student success (handout) --; Preparing for and taking exams (handout) --; More tips for test preparation and test taking (handout) --; CHAPTER 2; Positive start --; First day classroom activities and icebreakers --; Family name exercise --; "What's in a name?" exercise --; Stand up-sit down exercise --; Activities that help students find commonalities --; Introduction by identities exercise --; Student disclosure exercises --; Dyadic interviews --; Informal sharing exercises --; Walk around the room exercises --; Scavenger hunt --; Wheel within a wheel --; Alphabetize exercise --; Introductions and repetition --; Introducing yourself --; Course expectation activities --; Your goal: a relaxed atmosphere from day 1 --; Personal reference inventory (PRI); CHAPTER 3; Creating a welcome classroom environment --; "Chilly classroom climate" --; What students want from us as faculty --; How to build rapport and connect with your students --; Specific tips for building rapport and connecting with students --; Promoting student-student interaction --; Participation, motivation, and perseverance --; CHAPTER 4; Promoting student participation and motivation --; Promoting self-regulation: teaching students how to learn and improving student learning --; Interactive classroom --; Interactive lecture --; Engaging your students-even the passive and resistant ones --; Class discussion --; Planning and executing classroom discussions --; Cooperative and collaborative learning --; Benefits-and risks-of cooperative and collaborative learning --; Some specific group learning strategies --; Essence of promoting student participation and motivation; CHAPTER 5: Dealing with incivility in the college classroom --; What is classroom "incivilty"? --; Guidelines for courtesy and respect --; Specific disruptive behaviors- and how to handle them --; Dealing with student who have side conversations --; Dealing with students who sleep or do unrelated work --; Dealing with student disruption in large-lecture classes --; It's always good to have a plan --; CHAPTER 6; Keeping the ball rolling to a fruitful conclusion --; Motivating your students to complete the semester --; Role of writing exercises in keeping students engaged, promoting critical thinking skills, and fostering learning --; Other active learning exercises to help your students persevere --; Drawing the semester to a positive close --; Taking class notes --; CHAPTER 7; turning "successful beginnings" into successful teaching exercises --; Appendix; Creating your course syllabus: a brief overview --; Helpful teching resources --; References --; About the author
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