Teaching What You Don’t KnowHarvard University Press, 31 août 2009 - 320 pages Your graduate work was on bacterial evolution, but now you’re lecturing to 200 freshmen on primate social life. In this practical and funny book, an experienced teaching consultant offers many creative strategies for dealing with typical problems. Original, useful, and hopeful, this book reminds you that teaching what you don’t know, to students whom you may not understand, is not just a job. It’s an adventure. |
Table des matières
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9 | |
2 Why Its Better Than It Seems | 27 |
3 Getting Ready | 56 |
4 Teaching and Surviving | 82 |
5 Thinking in Class | 138 |
6 Teaching Students You Dont Understand | 166 |
7 Getting Better | 207 |
8 Advice for Administrators | 235 |
Appendixes | 265 |
Notes | 273 |
Acknowledgments | 303 |
307 | |
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