McKeachie's teaching tips : strategies, research, and theory for college and university teachers / Wilbert J. McKeachie ; with chapters by Graham Gibbs ... [et al.].

Includes bibliographical references (p. 345-366) and index.

pt. 1. Getting started: ch. 1. Introduction -- ch. 2. Countdown for course preparation -- ch. 3. Planning your students' learning activities -- ch. 4. Meeting a class for the first time -- pt. 2. Basic skills for facilitating student learning -- ch. 5. Facilitating discussion: posing problems, listening, questioning -- ch. 6. Lecturing -- ch. 7. Testing and assessing learning: assigning grades is not the most important function -- ch. 8. What to do about cheating -- ch. 9. ABC's of assigning grades -- pt. 3. Adding to your repertoire of skills and strategies for facilitating student learning: ch. 10. Teaching students to learn through writing: papers, journals, and reports -- ch. 11. Teaching students how to learn more from textbooks and other reading -- ch. 12. Laboratory teaching: teaching students to think like scientists -- ch. 13. Experiential learning: service learning, fieldwork, and collaborative research -- ch. 14. Peer learning, collaborative learning, cooperative learning -- ch. 15. Project methods, independent study, and one-on-one teaching -- ch. 16. Problem-based learning: teaching with cases, simulations, and games -- ch. 17. Using communication and information technologies effectively -- ch. 18. Class size and sectional courses -- ch. 19. Teaching large classes (you can still get active learning) -- pt. 4. Understanding students: ch. 20. Taking student social diversity into account -- ch. 21. Problem students (there's almost always at least one!) -- ch. 22. Counseling and advising -- pt. 5. Lifelong learning for you as well as your students: ch. 23. Appraising and improving your teaching: using students, peers, experts, and classroom research -- ch. 24. Ethics in college teaching -- pt. 6. Teaching for higher-level goals: ch. 25. Motivating students for your course and for lifelong learning -- ch. 26. Teaching students how to learn -- ch. 27. Teaching thinking -- ch. 28. Teaching values: should we? Could we?