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Teaching what you don't know

Author

Huston, Therese.

Title

Teaching what you don't know / Therese Huston.

Format

Book

Published

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009.

Description

314 p. ; 22 cm.

URL

<Table of contents> http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=018003050&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA

Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-302) and index.

Contents

• The growing challenge
• Why it's better than it seems
• Getting ready
• Teaching and surviving
• Thinking in class
• Teaching students you don't understand
• Getting better
• Advice for administrators.

Summary

Everyone in academia knows it and no one likes to admit it: faculty often have to teach courses in areas they don't know very well. The challenges are even greater when students don't share your cultural background, lifestyle, or assumptions about how to behave in a classroom. In this practical and funny book, an experienced teaching consultant offers many creative strategies for dealing with typical problems. --from publisher description.

Subject headings

College teaching. Effective teaching. Learning.

ISBN

9780674035805 (alk. paper) 0674035801 (alk. paper)