The Lecturer's Toolkit
eBook - ePub

The Lecturer's Toolkit

A Practical Guide to Assessment, Learning and Teaching

  1. 400 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Lecturer's Toolkit

A Practical Guide to Assessment, Learning and Teaching

About this book

With a focus on practical, implementable strategies to enhance learning experiences, the extensively updated sixth edition of The Lecturer's Toolkit is an essential guide for those new to teaching in Higher Education, as well as a companion to improve the practice of more experienced teachers.

Centred around the Race model of learning, which proposes a pragmatic exploration of how students learn, it offers research-informed practical tips and advice, with question prompts to cement knowledge, key tips to enhance best practice, and chapter outcomes to help shape learning. This edition has been fully updated to recognise changing approaches to higher education learning including online and distance learning and consideration of how of AI and Large Language Models are impacting on ways of teaching and assessing students. Covering all of the need-to-know information that is essential to thrive in tertiary teaching environments, this book includes information on:

  • Understanding how students really learn, including online and hybrid learning
  • Ways to increase student motivation and engagement
  • Ways to design assessments that are both authentic and compassionate
  • Pragmatic and positive ways of using feedback to enhance learning
  • Practical advice on large and small group teaching
  • Advice on looking after yourself in stressful working contexts
  • Some thoughts on where higher education is moving next.

This accessible toolkit is based on decades of experience of higher education and is written with authority and clarity in a jargon-free style. An invaluable guide, it is a must-read for every higher education professional.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2025
eBook ISBN
9781040330913
Edition
0

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. 1 How students really learn
  8. 2 Assessment in higher education: Principles and philosophies
  9. 3 Assessment practicalities
  10. 4 Feedback dialogues
  11. 5 Large-group teaching
  12. 6 Making small-group teaching work
  13. 7 Looking after yourself
  14. 8 Onwards and upwards
  15. References and further reading
  16. Index