To My Professor: Student Voices for Great College Teaching

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“To My Professor: Student Voices for Great College Teaching” begins with
remarks by students about their professors. They tend not to be the kind of
remarks that professors usually hear, and some are harsh. Others are full of
gratitude for teachers who inspire and motivate. The “To My Professor”
statements are really just starting points that lead to advice from master
teachers. Teaching college is difficult and this book has some potential
solutions. More than 50 chapters cover situations including expectations,
communication, technology, race, gender and religion, mental and physical
health. CONTENTS 1. Structures & syllabi The syllabus: road map for a smooth
experience Don’t serve lessons after their freshness dates Being available for
students: Making office hours count Mutual civility means knowing and
respecting your audience Going beyond grades to feedback and growth Student
safety matters on and off campus 2. Engaging everyone Getting the whole class
involved Loafers and lax rules give group work a bad reputation There is an
arms race and many shades of gray in academic fraud 3. Out of bounds Getting
names right: It’s personal Profane professors: Tactical or tacky? A professor
walks into a classroom: Humor 101 College can be a lonely place for
conservatives Remarks about appearances are more than skin deep 4. Technology
Email etiquette starts with good ground rules PowerPoint: weapon of class
destruction Managing the demons of digital distraction Online classes:
love/hate relationship 5. Life styles, life stages There is a first generation
for everything Check-ins help transfer students shake freshman feelings
Invisible population: How to help student-parents keep up Veterans
transitioning to a new theater of operation on campus For older students,
college is a stage, not an age Commuter students in the classroom Getting
athletes to bring their A-game to academics 6. Health and wellness The
Americans with Disabilities Act Helping students’ mental health and well-being
Profs can help with attention and executive functioning Autism spectrum issues
are different but can be helped Food allergies, an overlooked health hazard
How instructors support visually impaired students For hard-of-hearing
students, simple changes make learning easier You can’t always see something
is wrong just by looking Unreported disabilities: How to help while respecting
privacy 7. Racial inclusion What to do when something breaks out in the
classroom BlackOnCampus is about what goes on inside classrooms, too Teaching
the growing population of Latino students Beyond face value: The diversity and
depth of Asian Americans Native Americans: Dealing with cultural
misunderstandings Ahead of the curve: Teaching toward more varied diversity
Assumptions about identity are no substitute for knowing 8. Religious
inclusion Religious holiday requests require flexibility, discernment Holidays
that university calendars might not include ‘I hope you’re not hiding any guns
under your headscarf today’ Students singled out as Jewish, even when they’re
not Campus Christians can find their beliefs challenged 9. International
Making international students feel at home away from home For international
instructors, bridging languages is a process For those new to the language,
English can be a sentence 10. Gender and identity Women lead men in numbers
but still trail in power Breaking down the walls of career gender stereotypes
Breaking the binary: Seeing sexuality as a spectrum Transitioning on campus:
finding and redefining identity 11. Finances Hardly working or working too
hard? College debt weighs more than ever Texts and supplemental materials can
be expensive seem superfluous Read more

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Product Details:

• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Read the Spirit Books (August 18, 2016)
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Paperback ‏ : ‎ 230 pages
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1942011490
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 91
• Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12 ounces
• Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.52 x 9 inches
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