To My Professor Student Voices For Great College Teaching [Paperback]

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. 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

1. 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

1. 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

1. 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

1. 5. Life styles, life stages

There is a first generation for everything?
Check-ins help transfer students shake freshman feelings
Invisible population:l>