Essential Teaching Principles: A Resource Collection for Adjunct Faculty

Essential Teaching Principles: A Resource Collection for Adjunct Faculty

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It’s common to find adjuncts whose teaching skills don’t rise to the level of their subject-matter expertise. For them, a solid program of professional development would really pay dividends.

But such programs can be costly to develop; they can take a tremendous amount of time and effort to administer; they can be all but impossible to schedule, given how infrequently many adjuncts are on campus; and, frankly, they can be frustratingly inefficient. (You can find yourself investing in adjuncts development only to see them leave the program the next semester.)

This book offers you a convenient, affordable alternative-a practical way to provide all your adjuncts with the knowledge and tools they need for classroom success.

Learning Goals

Articles within each chapter offer keen insights into everything from big-picture teaching approaches to day-to-day detail. Here’s just a small sampling of the books takeaways:

• How to design a new course or adapt an existing one
• How to write a syllabus
• How to determine optimal course content
• How to establish a teaching persona in the classroom
• How to engage students in active learning
• How to create meaningful assignments
• How to establish and maintain a positive learning environment
• How to design quizzes and exams that assess learning outcomes
• How to establish grading criteria and manage the grading process
• How to approach online teaching

Topics Covered

Featuring dozens of contributions from experienced, award-winning professors, Essential Teaching Principles: A Resource Collection for Adjunct Faculty is a carefully curated selection of articles adapted from the pages of The Teaching Professor newsletter.

Packing a wealth of information into a compact, reader-friendly format, Essential Teaching Principles: A Resource Collection for Adjunct Faculty is organized around seven broad topics critical to good teaching practice. Those are:

• Instruction Essentials
• Course Design
• Students and Learning
• Creating Climates for Learning
• Teaching Online
• Quizzes, Exams and Finals
• Feedback and Grading

Audience

It’s a resource adjuncts can easily consult whenever they encounter new challenges in their teaching careers.

Purchase

Essential Teaching Principles: A Resource Collection for Adjunct Faculty is a mentoring tool you can distribute to all your adjuncts, to help you ensure a uniform level of comfort and competence when it comes to classroom performance. And this refreshingly affordable resource wont put a big dent in your budget, either!

Get your adjuncts classroom-ready-order your books today.

• Paperback: 236 pages
• Published by: Magna Publications, 2016
• ISBN: 978-0-912150-24-6
• Formats available: Print, Amazon Kindle

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Product Code: PB16AA