Teaching the Large College Class: A Guidebook for Instructors with MultitudesISBN: 978-0-470-18084-6
Paperback
208 pages
October 2007, Jossey-Bass
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Teaching large classes is a fact of life for professors at many
institutions. In addition to pedagogy, instructors of these courses
must also be concerned with legal, ethical, financial,
technological, personnel, and management issues. Virtually all
introductory courses are large ones, as are the popular
intermediate courses at large institutions. Typically, little or no
training or instruction is provided to new professors about how to
manage large classes successfully. This book is a valuable resource
for any college teacher, adjunct or full-time, facing a large
class. It will also be useful for college administrators who might
want to issue it to teachers, especially adjuncts, assigned to
large classes for the first time. A distillation of years of
experience by the author?who started his college teaching career in
1969?in teaching large classes and in coaching other professors to
do the same, this guide is concise and user-friendly. It employs
teaching-as-acting as a common theme, with many practical examples
covering all of the major aspects of organizing, managing, and
teaching a large lecture course in any field.
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