Handbook for teachers in universities and colleges : a guide to improving teaching methods / Robert Cannon

This volume offers practical suggestions to teachers on how to improve teaching methods at the higher education level. Suggestions span various types of teaching tasks and settings. Among the topics discussed are teaching in large groups and includes lecture preparation, what to do when things go wrong, evaluating a lecture, and related topics; discussion on making a presentation at a conference or professional meeting including preparation, presentation, abstracts, posters, and chairing a conference session; small group teaching and the planning and skills needed for group management; addresses practical and laboratory classes and the objectives best achieved in these classes and how to assist students in achieving them; curriculum planning and how to do it in a systematic manner; assessment and aims to help ensure that assessments will measure what they are supposed to measure in a fair and accurate way and a discussion on how to produce and use audiovisual and printed teaching materials economically and effectively.