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Tables of Contents for Voices from the Classroom
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction: Responsibility, Respect, Research and Reflection in Higher Education
1
4
SECTION I: POWER, DIVERSITY AND EQUITY IN THE CLASSROOM
5
92
Introduction
6
1
Student Voices
7
18
Gender, Power and Silence in the Classroom: Our Experiences Speak for Themselves
7
11
Fog and Frustration: The Graduate Student Experience
18
3
``Dissertation Dementia'': Reflections on One Woman's Graduate Experience
21
4
Teachers' Voices
25
72
Power in the Classroom
25
15
The University Classroom: From Laboratory to Liberatory Education
40
5
Diversity in the Classroom: Engagement and Resistance
45
9
Responsibility and Respect in Critical Pedagogy
54
4
Feminist Pedagogy: Paradoxes in Theory and Practice
58
5
Teaching ``Women and Men in Organizations'': Feminist Pedagogy in the Business School
63
5
Empowering Students Through Feminist Pedagogy
68
7
Heterosexism in the Classroom
75
4
DisABILITY in the Classroom: The Forgotten Dimension of Diversity?
79
6
Teaching Students with Learning Disabilities
85
4
Avoiding the Retrofitted Classroom: Strategies for Teaching Students with Disabilities
89
4
Adult Students
93
2
English-as-a-Second-Language Students
95
2
SECTION II: THEORIES AND MODELS OF STUDENT LEARNING
97
30
Introduction
98
1
Teaching Styles/Learning Styles: The Myers Briggs Model
99
6
The Gregorc Model of Learning Styles
105
5
Student Development: From Problem Solving to Problem Finding
110
8
Using Theories about Student Learning to Improve Teaching
118
9
SECTION III: COURSE DESIGN
127
18
Introduction
128
1
Course Planning: From Design to Active Classroom
129
4
Developing and Teaching a Science Course: A Junior Faculty Member's Perspective
133
3
The Dialectic of Course Development: I Theorize, They React... and Then?
136
3
Beyond Bare Facts: Teaching Goals in Science
139
2
``Why Didn't He Just Say It?'': Getting Students Interested in Language
141
4
SECTION IV: WORKING WITH GRADUATE STUDENTS
145
16
Introduction
146
1
Graduate Supervisory Practices
147
6
Working Together: The Teaching Assistant--Professor Relationship
153
4
Working with Teaching Assistants
157
2
Issues for International Teaching Assistants
159
2
SECTION V: ACADEMIC HONESTY
161
20
Introduction
162
1
Academic Dishonesty
163
3
Plagiarism and Student Acculturation: Strangers in the Strange Lands of our Disciplines
166
5
Plagiarism and the Challenge of Essay Writing: Learning from our Students
171
6
Honesty in the Laboratory
177
2
Electronic Plagiarism: A Cautionary Tale
179
2
SECTION VI: TEACHING AND LEARNING STRATEGIES
181
86
Introduction
182
2
Lecturing
184
16
Effective Lecturing Techniques
184
4
Improving Large-Class Lecturing
188
9
Improving Student Learning in Lectures
197
3
Class Participation
200
15
Dead Silence...A Teacher's Nightmare
200
2
Evoking and Provoking Student Participation
202
4
Resistance in the Classroom
206
4
Computer-Mediated Communication: Some Thoughts about Extending the Classroom
210
5
Seminars, Tutorials and Small-Group Learning
215
52
Study Group Guide for Instructors and Teaching Assistants
215
10
Warm-Ups: Lessening Student Anxiety in the First Class
225
2
Small is Beautiful: Using Small Groups to Enhance Student Learning
227
4
Integrating Group Work into our Classes
231
4
Scrapbook Presentations: An Exercise in Collaborative Learning
235
6
The Field Walk
241
3
Teaching with Cases
244
3
Stages in Group Dynamics
247
2
The Joy of Seminars
249
3
The Office Hour: Not Just Crisis Management
252
3
Negotiating Power in the Classroom: The Example of Group Work
255
12
SECTION VII: ASSIGNMENTS AND EVALUATION
267
52
Introduction
268
2
Reading
270
12
When No One Done the Reading
270
2
A Strategy for Encouraging Students to do Readings
272
2
Telling a Book by Its Cover
274
5
The Sherlock Holmes Approach to Critical Reading (Or How to Help Students Become Good ``Detextives'')
279
3
Research Essays and Other Writing Assignments
282
16
Sequencing Assignments
282
3
An Experiment in Writing and Learning Groups
285
3
Paper Chase: The Sequel
288
3
Working with Students' Writing
291
4
What Happens After You Say, ``Please Go to the Writing Centre''?
295
3
Grading and Evaluation
298
21
Evaluating Student Writing: Problems and Possibilities
298
5
Fast, Fair and Constructive: Grading in the Mathematical Sciences
303
3
An Individualized Approach to Teaching and Evaluation
306
10
The Norwegian Motivator, or How I Make Grading Work for Me and My Students
316
3
SECTION VIII: DEVELOPING AND ASSESSING YOUR TEACHING
319
50
Introduction
320
1
Classroom Assessment
321
9
Improving Student Learning Through Feedback: Classroom Assessment Techniques
321
3
The One-Minute Paper... Two Success Stories
324
2
Developing the One-Minute Paper
326
4
Mid-Course Evaluation
330
8
Formative Evaluation Surveys
330
3
Facilitating Student Feedback
333
3
Feedback Strategies
336
2
Collegial Consultation
338
6
Peer Pairing
338
2
Peer Pairing in French Studies
340
4
Teaching Evaluation Guide
344
17
Teaching Documentation Guide
361
8
Contributors
369