About the Publisher
Accessibility Statement
About This Project
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Preface
I. It Starts with Attitude
1. Hard on Standards, Soft on Students
2. Lesson from a Mobile Fossil
3. The Mirror Effect
4. Curiosity and the Joy of Learning
5. Change Before You Have To
6. The Importance of Admitting You Don’t Know
7. Teaching and Learning Passion
8. Let Them In on the Secret
9. A Value of Knowledge
10. Teach Doubt
11. Patience is the Most Important Element of Good Teaching
12. I Hated General Chemistry (and I’m a Chemistry Professor!)
13. Positive Thinking
14. Imitate Success
15. Know What You’re Talking About (and Never Waste a Disaster)
II. Teaching and Learning are Based on Communication
16. Connections
17. What’s in a Name?
18. Elevate Your Audience
19. Stories Make You Interesting
20. Encouraging Communication in an Online Class
21. Teach Selective Lying
III. Techniques That Improve Learning
22. Buy a Green Pen
23. Bridging Academic and Student Cultures
24. Feedback Separates Good Teachers from Master Teachers
25. Modeling Critical Thinking for Students
26. Teaching Invention through Imitation?
27. Embrace the FUBU of Teaching
28. To Group or Not to Group
29. Drawing Attention in the Modern Classroom
30. Build It and They Will Come
31. Containing the Classroom Hijacker
32. Listening for Silences
IV. College Students Need to Learn How to Learn
33. How You Think Is Just as Important as What You Think About
34. Teach Your Students How to Master the Material Presented
35. Make Them Accountable, but Do It Kindly
36. Understanding Fairness
37. Creating a Safe Zone in the University Classroom
38. Teach Effective Thinking
39. “I’m Looking through You” (to Build Resistance to Manipulation)
40. Be Careful—They Are Sensitive Beings
41. Your Class Is Not Their Life
42. Give Thanks . . . and Prime the Pump
V. Concluding Thoughts
43. First Things First
44. Teaching Beyond the Classroom
45. What’s Your Legacy?
46. Finishing Well
Appendix A: The Academy
Appendix B: UT System Academic Institutions
Appendix C: Fellows of the UT System Academy of Distinguished Teachers
Commentaries
About the Authors
Accessibility Rubric
Errata and Versioning History
43. First Things First 44. Teaching Beyond the Classroom 45. What’s Your Legacy 46. Finishing Well
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