Voices from the Classroom: Reflections on Teaching and Learning in HigherEducation

Introduction: Responsibility, Respect, Research and Reflection in Higher Education SECTION I: POWER, DIVERSITY AND EQUITY IN THE CLASSROOM Introduction Part One: Student Voices 1. Gender, Power and Silence in the Classroom: Our Experiences Speak for Themselves 2. Fog and Frustration: The Graduate Student Experience 3. 'Dissertation Dementia': Reflections on One Woman's Graduate Experience Part Two: Teachers' Voices 1. Power in the Classroom 2. The University Classroom: From Laboratory to Liberatory Education 3. Diversity in the Classroom: Engagement and Resistance 4. Responsibility and Respect in Critical Pedagogy 5. Feminist Pedagogy: Paradoxes in Theory and Practice 6. Teaching 'Women and Men in Organizations': Feminist Pedagogy in the Business School 7. Empowering Students Through Feminist Pedagogy 8. Heterosexism in the Classroom 9. DisABILITY in the Classroom: The Forgotten Dimension of Diversity? 10. Teaching Students with Learning Disabilities 11. Avoiding the Retrofitted Classroom: Strategies for Teaching Students with Disabilities 12. Adult Students 13. English-as-a-Second-Language Students SECTION II: THEORIES AND MODELS OF STUDENT LEARNING Introduction 1. Teaching Styles/Learning Styles: The Myers Briggs Model 2. The Gregorc Model of Learning Styles 3. Student Development: From Problem-Solving to Problem-Finding 4. Using Theories about Student Learning to Improve Teaching SECTION III: COURSE DESIGN Introduction 1. Course Planning: From Design to Active Classroom 2. Developing and Teaching a Science Course: A Junior Faculty Member's Perspective 3. The Dialectic of Course Development: I Theorize, They React... and Then? 4. Beyond Bare Facts: Teaching Goals in Science 5. 'Why Didn't He Just Say It?': Getting Students Interested in Language SECTION IV: WORKING WITH GRADUATE STUDENTS Introduction 1. Graduate Supervisory Practices 2. Working Together: The Teaching Assistant-Professor Relationship 3. Working with Teaching Assistants 4. Issues for International Teaching Assistants SECTION V: ACADEMIC HONESTY Introduction 1. Academic Dishonesty 2. Plagiarism and Student Acculturation: Strangers in the Strange Lands of our Disciplines 3. Plagiarism and the Challenge of Essay Writing: Learning from our Students 4. Honesty in the Laboratory 5. Electronic Plagiarism: A Cautionary Tale SECTION VI: TEACHING AND LEARNING STRATEGIES Introduction Part One: Lecturing * Effective Lecturing Techniques * Improving Large-Class Lecturing * Improving Student Learning in Lectures Part Two: Class Participation * Dead Silence... A Teacher's Nightmare * Evoking and Provoking Student Participation * Resistance in the Classroom * Computer-Mediated Communication: Some Thoughts about Extending the Classroom Part Three: Seminars, Tutorials and Small-Group Learning * Study Group Guide for Instructors and Teaching Assistants * Warm-Ups: Lessening Student Anxiety in the First Class * Small is Beautiful: Using Small Groups to Enhance Student Learning * Integrating Group Work into our Classes * Scrapbook Presentations: An Exercise in Collaborative Learning * The Field Walk * Teaching with Cases * Stages in Group Dynamics * The Joy of Seminars * The Office Hour: Not Just Crisis Management * Negotiating Power in the Classroom: The Example of Group Work SECTION VII: ASSIGNMENTS AND EVALUATION Introduction Part One: Reading * When No One Has Done the Reading * A Strategy for Encouraging Students to do Readings * Telling a Book by Its Cover * The Sherlock Holmes Approach to Critical Reading (Or How to Help Students Become Good 'Detextives') Part Two: Research Essays and Other Writing Assignments * Sequencing Assignments * An Experiment in Writing and Learning Groups * Paper Chase: The Sequel * Working with Students' Writing * What Happens After You Say, 'Please Go to the Writing Centre?' Part Three: Grading and Evaluation * Evaluating Student Writing: Problems and Possibilities * Fast, Fair and Constructive: Grading in the Mathematical Sciences * An Individualized Approach to Teaching and Evaluation * The Norwegian Motivator, or How I Make Grading Work for Me and My Students SECTION VIII: DEVELOPING AND ASSESSING YOUR TEACHING Introduction Part One: Classroom Assessment * Improving Student Learning Through Feedback: Classroom Assessment Techniques * The One-Minute Paper... Two Success Stories * Developing the One-Minute Paper Part Two: Mid-Course Evaluation * Formative Evaluation Surveys * Facilitating Student Feedback * Feedback Strategies Part Three: Collegial Consultation * Peer Pairing * Peer Pairing in French Studies Part Four: Teaching Evaluation Guide Part Five: Teaching Documentation Guide Contributors