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Wilbert J. McKeachie. McKeachie's Teaching Tips: Strategies, Research, and Theory for College and University Teachers. 11th Ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2002. 371 pp. Paper: $39.16. ISBN: 0-618-11649-4.
This 11th edition of Teaching Tips continues the practical approach of earlier editions to teaching. The book is supported by research and theory on how students learn and effectively addresses different aspects of organizing and teaching a course. Originally written for beginning teachers and teaching assistants, Teaching Tips's practical approach makes this book useful for everyone, including those who want to refresh their teaching or rethink their pedagogy.
The book is divided into seven sections with twenty-seven different chapters. Wilbert J. McKeachie is the principal author, although eight chapters are written by other collaborators. New to this edition are chapters on distance learning, motivation, laboratory teaching, and teaching thinking. On-ground use of technology tools is also discussed throughout the book.
Part 1 addresses getting started, course preparation, and meeting a class for the first time. In Part 2, McKeachie writes about essentials to teaching such as facilitating discussions, making lectures more effective, assessing, testing and evaluating, and handling cheating. Understanding students is the central theme of Part 3. Topics in this section include motivation in the...