Part I. Sound Preparations.

1. Instructional Support Services and Resources.

2. Understanding Your Students.

3. In the Beginning: Course design by Objectives.

4. The Complete Syllabus.

5. Course Coordination between Faculty and TAs.

6. Copyright Guidelines for Instructors.

Part II. Good Beginnings.

7. Your First Day of Class.

8. Preventing and Responding to Classroom Incivility.

9. Preserving Academic Honesty.

10. Making the Most of Office Hours.

11. Motivating Your Students.

Part III. Varieties of Learning and Teaching Strategies.

12. Teaching to Different Learning Styles.

13. An Introduction to Student-Active Teaching: The Discovery Method.

14. Making the Lecture a Learning Experience.

15. Leading Effective Discussions.

16. Questioning Techniques for Discussion and Assessment.

17. Experimental learning Activities.

18. Learning in Groups.

19. Getting Your Students to do the Readings.

20. Writing-to-Learn Activities and Assignments.

21. Teaching Your Students to Think and Write in the Disciplines.

22. Tools of the Trade: making the Most of Instructional Aids and Technology.

Part IV: Teaching Problem Solving for Today’s World.

23. Teaching Problem Solving I: The Case Method.

24. Teaching Problem Solving II: Problem-Based Learning.

25. Teaching Problem Solving III: Quantitative Reasoning.

26. Teaching Problem Solving IV: Science in the Laboratory.

Part V. Assessment/Measuring Outcomes.

27. Assessing Students’ Learning in Progress.

28. Test Construction.

29. Preparing Students for Tests.

30. Grading: Tests, Assignments, and Course Performance.

31. Evaluating and Documenting Teaching Effectiveness.

References.

Index.