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Teaching complex ideas : how to translate your expertise into great instruction

Author

Wentzel, Arnold, author.

Title

Teaching complex ideas : how to translate your expertise into great instruction / by Arnold Wentzel.

Format

Book

Published

New York ; London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2019. ©2019

Description

xix, 230 pages : illustrations, tables, graphs, charts ; 23 cm

Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Know what not to teach
• What makes an explanation great?
• A step-by-step approach to explain complex ideas clearly
• Help students to remember creatively and forget as much as possible
• How to make boring and complex ideas interesting
• If you want students to reason like experts, don't teach them how to reason
• Transform assessments into learning experiences and eliminate cheating
• Create valid conventional assessments but consider alternatives
• Rethink educational technology by noticing what everyone else misses
• Design presentations that make your lectures much more useful
• The future of professor-experts.

Summary

"Integrating insights from learning science with practical guidelines and stepwise approaches, Teaching Complex Ideas helps educators masterfully translate their expertise into easy-to-understand, interesting, and memorable instruction. Covering areas such as identifying the critical ideas within a complex topic, designing clear explanations, and making lectures useful and engaging, this resource brings together subjects and skills never before adequately addressed in a single book. Using real world examples and full of practical tips, this book guides college instructors to improve their understanding of their subjects, select the most valuable ideas to teach, and integrate those concepts with other aspects of teaching such as presentation design, technology, and assessment of understanding. This practical book helps professors at any stage in their career convert even the most complex ideas into great teaching."--Back cover.

Subject headings

College teaching--Methodology. Creative teaching. Effective teaching.

ISBN

9781138482364 (hbk) 1138482366 (hbk) 9781138482371 (pbk) 1138482374 (pbk) 9781351058117 (ebk)