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A Little Book on TeachingWhat makes a Great Teacher?

A Little Book on Teaching: What makes a Great Teacher? CHAPTER 1 1.1 OVERVIEW This chapter provides an introduction to the challenging and rewarding career of university-level teaching. The chapter begins with a review of what the literature has to say about what makes a great teacher. We review a variety of sources and find amazing consistency in the tenets of good teaching. A synthesized list of tenets of great teachers is then developed. A series of case studies of good teachers, including an award-winning middle school science teacher and a world-renowned high school teacher, follows. You will then be asked to take a trip down memory lane and remember the great teachers you’ve had and list the tenets of what made them special and such an effective teacher. You then complete an exercise to determine what kind of teacher you want to be. Our goal for the chapter is for you to discover the tenets, activities, and attitudes of great teachers and include them in your own professional repertoire. 1.2 WELCOME Welcome to the noble profession of university-level teaching. You will find this vocation to be challenging, rewarding, exciting, and doable. As a new faculty member you probably feel a bit overwhelmed with all that you have to http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

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Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2012
ISBN
978-3-031-79344-8
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1 –20
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10.1007/978-3-031-79345-5_1
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CHAPTER 1 1.1 OVERVIEW This chapter provides an introduction to the challenging and rewarding career of university-level teaching. The chapter begins with a review of what the literature has to say about what makes a great teacher. We review a variety of sources and find amazing consistency in the tenets of good teaching. A synthesized list of tenets of great teachers is then developed. A series of case studies of good teachers, including an award-winning middle school science teacher and a world-renowned high school teacher, follows. You will then be asked to take a trip down memory lane and remember the great teachers you’ve had and list the tenets of what made them special and such an effective teacher. You then complete an exercise to determine what kind of teacher you want to be. Our goal for the chapter is for you to discover the tenets, activities, and attitudes of great teachers and include them in your own professional repertoire. 1.2 WELCOME Welcome to the noble profession of university-level teaching. You will find this vocation to be challenging, rewarding, exciting, and doable. As a new faculty member you probably feel a bit overwhelmed with all that you have to

Published: Jan 1, 2012

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