Product Description: The Lecturer’s Toolkit is a wide-ranging, down-to-earth, practical resource for lecturers and teachers in universities and colleges. Jargon-free and written with authority, clarity and candour, the Toolkit addresses a broad range of aspects of assessment, feedback, learning and teaching, and helps develop many facets of professional practice...read more

Product Description: 'Refreshing, original and full of pragmatic, evidence-based advice... In my opinion this is the best book on learning and teaching available to teachers in H.E. and F.E. today. The environment has changed so quickly over recent years and Phil Race has not only kept abreast of the changes; he is way ahead...read more

Product Description: This Second Edition of Making Learning Happen provides an accessible and practical discussion of teaching and learning for the post-compulsory sector of higher and further education. Central to the book is the author's well-known `ripples on a pond' model of learning, which identifies fundamental factors underpinning successful learning:wanting to learntaking ownership of the need to learnlearning by doinglearning through feedbackmaking sense of what is being learneddeepening learning through explaining, coaching, teachingfurther deepening learning through assessing - making informed judgementsThe book encourages teachers and students to address these factors head-on in a wide range of contexts, including large-group teaching, the design of assessment, small-group work, reflection, and in making good use of formative feedback...read more

Product Description: Primary audience: Professional market including Instructors, academics, lecturers, educational and staff developers, student affairs professionals.Secondary Audience: Students enrolled in Teaching and Learning courses in Higher Education Masters Programs in US...read more

Product Description: Making Teaching Work provides a down-to-earth, jargon-free book for teaching staff in universities and colleges, and includes reference to some of the best modern literature on assessment, teaching and feedback. By focusing on the learner in a variety of situations and contexts, the book explores how teachers can help learners to make learning happen...read more

A resource for higher education professionals addresses a broad range of issues including making small-group teaching work, managing feedback from students, and designing and using resource-based and online learning.

'Describes what every student needs before a test, as well as what every teacher would wish he or she had read before taking it.'

Product Description: The 500 Tips series for professional educators features a range of first-class resources covering all aspects of teaching and all situations. Organized thematically, these books offer the busy professional tried-and-tested suggestions that can be put into practice quickly and easily in all teaching environments...read more

Product Description: Si estás en el último curso de la carrera, lo que vayas a hacer en los próximos meses tiene consecuencias decisivas para tu futuro. Hay que repasar todas las materias para los exámenes finales, redactar trabajos y preparar solicitudes de empleo...read more

Lecturing can be a terror, a chore or an exhilarating experience. For most lecturers, at one time or another, it is all of these things. For many in HE & FE it remains the staple form of teaching and, as student groups get ever larger, good lecturing becomes ever more important. This is an accessible, friendly and confidence-boosting book for inexperienced and experienced lecturers alike. Written in a lively and straightforward style, it guides readers through the art of good lecturing. This is a book to use both to gain confidence, and to work with as the your lecturing becomes more assured. The authors show how to improve lecturing, and how lecturing is a flexible and essential tool for enhancing learning and understanding. Illustrated throughout with fascinating case studies and scenarios and with helpful hints and tips, key issues covered include: * the place and types of lecture* voice and body language* causing learning in lectures* making lectures more effective* lecturing tools and processes* engaging groups* ensuring and developing quality* tips for day-to-day use.

Product Description: "The Lecturer's Toolkit" was first published as a photocopyable ring-bound resource and was an immediate success for all those in higher education seeking to develop learning and teaching skills. Now fully revised, the second edition is available both as a ring-binder and as a paperback edition for the first time...read more

Product Description: The Lecturer's Toolkit was first published as a photocopyable ring-bound resource and was an immediate success for all those in HE seeking to develop learning and teaching skills. Now fully revised, the second edition is available both as an A4 ring-binder and as a paperback edition for the first time...read more

Product Description: Including sections on creative thinking, problems in groups, feedback mechanisms, dealing with conflict, and gender issues within groups, this volume is designed to aid educators and trainers to create more effective group learning situations.

Product Description: Final year undergraduates face a particular set of challenges. What they do in their final year s critical to their futures. They must cope with revision for final exams as well as completing course-work and sometimes working on extended dissertations or projects...read more

Product Description: How can I ensure my hard work pays off? How should I integrate new technologies into my study habits? How can I study strategically and avoid going off at tangent? Are you motivated to succeed at university but unsure how to achieve your full potential? This book will help to unlock the secrets to getting a good degree and all the benefits that can come from it...read more