First Steps to Excellence in College Teaching - Softcover

Glenn Ross Johnson

9780912150420: First Steps to Excellence in College Teaching

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0912150424 ISBN 13: 9780912150420

Publisher: Magna Pub, 1995

Media attention focused on the instructional quality in colleges and universities reflects a higher education system that must do a better job of preparing instructors. First Steps is written just for that purpose - to help new instructors and teaching assistants set and meet standards of excellence.

Glenn Ross Johnson provides the basics of instruction, from preparation through evaluation, step-by-step. He focuses on what new instructors need most, covering the essentials such as:

� Determining your course objectives
� Selecting textbooks
� Involving your students more actively
� What can be learned about your teaching through the Cognitive Interaction Analysis System (CIAS)
� Evaluating your students

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About the Author:

Glenn Ross Johnson, a professor of education at Texas A&M University since 1967, has written dozens of articles on teaching, as well as several books, including Improving College Teaching Via Microteaching and Interaction Analysis: A Handbook for Professors and Prospective Instructors (1975) and Analyzing College Teaching (1976)

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