Voices from the Classroom

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

1. Effective Lecturing Techniques



2. Improving Large-Class Lecturing



3. Improving Student Learning in Lectures

Part Two: Class Participation

1. Dead Silence... A Teacher's Nightmare



2. Evoking and Provoking Student Participation



3. Resistance in the Classroom



4. Computer-Mediated Communication: Some Thoughts about Extending the Classroom

Part Three: Seminars, Tutorials and Small-Group Learning

1. Study Group Guide for Instructors and Teaching Assistants



2. Warm-Ups: Lessening Student Anxiety in the First Class



3. Small is Beautiful: Using Small Groups to Enhance Student Learning



4. Integrating Group Work into our Classes



5. Scrapbook Presentations: An Exercise in Collaborative Learning



6. The Field Walk



7. Teaching with Cases



8. Stages in Group Dynamics



9. The Joy of Seminars



10. The Office Hour: Not Just Crisis Management



11. Negotiating Power in the Classroom: The Example of Group Work

SECTION VII: ASSIGNMENTS AND EVALUATION

Introduction

Part One: Reading

1. When No One Has Done the Reading



2. A Strategy for Encouraging Students to do Readings



3. Telling a Book by Its Cover



4. The Sherlock Holmes Approach to Critical Reading (Or How to Help Students Become Good 'Detextives')

Part Two: Research Essays and Other Writing Assignments

1. Sequencing Assignments



2. An Experiment in Writing and Learning Groups



3. Paper Chase: The Sequel



4. Working with Students' Writing



5. What Happens After You Say, 'Please Go to the Writing Centre?'

Part Three: Grading and Evaluation

1. Evaluating Student Writing: Problems and Possibilities



2. Fast, Fair and Constructive: Grading in the Mathematical Sciences



3. An Individualized Approach to Teaching and Evaluation



4. 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

1. Improving Student Learning Through Feedback: Classroom Assessment Techniques



2. The One-Minute Paper... Two Success Stories



3. Developing the One-Minute Paper

Part Two: Mid-Course Evaluation

1. Formative Evaluation Surveys



2. Facilitating Student Feedback



3. Feedback Strategies

Part Three: Collegial Consultation

1. Peer Pairing



2. Peer Pairing in French Studies

Part Four: Teaching Evaluation Guide

Part Five: Teaching Documentation Guide

Contributors