Teaching What You Dont Know by Therese Huston (English) Paperback Book

Description: Teaching What You Dont Know by Therese Huston In this practical and funny book, an experienced teaching consultant offers many creative strategies for dealing with typical problems. Original, useful, and hopeful, this book reminds you that teaching what you dont know, to students whom you may not understand, is not just a job. Its an adventure. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Your graduate work was on bacterial evolution, but now youre lecturing to 200 freshmen on primate social life. Youve taught Kant for twenty years, but now youre team-teaching a new course on "Ethics and the Internet." The personality theorist retired and wasnt replaced, so now you, the neuroscientist, have to teach the "Sexual Identity" course. Everyone in academia knows it and no one likes to admit it: faculty often have to teach courses in areas they dont know very well. The challenges are even greater when students dont share your cultural background, lifestyle, or assumptions about how to behave in a classroom.In this practical and funny book, an experienced teaching consultant offers many creative strategies for dealing with typical problems. How can you prepare most efficiently for a new course in a new area? How do you look credible? And what do you do when you dont have a clue how to answer a question?Encouraging faculty to think of themselves as learners rather than as experts, Therese Huston points out that authority in the classroom doesnt come only, or even mostly, from perfect knowledge. She offers tips for introducing new topics in a lively style, for gauging students understanding, for reaching unresponsive students, for maintaining discussions when they seem to stop dead, and -yes- for dealing with those impossible questions.Original, useful, and hopeful, this book reminds you that teaching what you dont know, to students whom you may not understand, is not just a job. Its an adventure. Notes This is one of the best books Ive read on university teaching and learning in a long time. It addresses an issue thats seldom discussed, in a book thats both carefully researched and wonderfully sparkling in style. The author makes a strong case that teaching outside your area of expertise is a serious and extensive problem, and she offers some highly practical advice about how to meet the challenges. I would make this book a standard text for both our new faculty program and teaching fellows program, and I suspect that many other programs will want to do the same. -- Ken Bain, author of What the Best College Teachers Do Author Biography Therese Huston is Founding Director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning at Seattle University. Table of Contents * Introduction * The Growing Challenge * Why Its Better Than It Seems * Getting Ready * Teaching and Surviving * Thinking in Class * Teaching Students You Dont Understand * Getting Better * Advice for Administrators * Appendixes * Notes * Acknowledgments * Index Review This is one of the best books Ive read on university teaching and learning in a long time. It addresses an issue thats seldom discussed, in a book thats both carefully researched and wonderfully sparkling in style. The author makes a strong case that teaching outside your area of expertise is a serious and extensive problem, and she offers some highly practical advice about how to meet the challenges. I would make this book a standard text for both our new faculty program and teaching fellows program, and I suspect that many other programs will want to do the same. -- Ken Bain, author of What the Best College Teachers DoMoving behind the reassuring public image of professorial expertise, Huston exposes a growing but still largely hidden academic reality: university teachers—sometimes even full professors—teaching outside of their field. Interviews with dozens of university faculty convincingly establish the prevalence of the practice and clarify the institutional reasons that it will likely increase in the years ahead. But many readers will quickly move past the analysis of why university faculty must teach outside their specialty to consider the helpful advice on how to do such teaching well...It may surprise librarians how many teachers and administrators seek out this book. -- Bryce Christensen * Booklist *As [Huston] demonstrates, teaching outside your area of competence is almost the norm in the U.S. academy...The hints and tips provided here will be valuable perhaps everywhere that there is a higher education system...Teaching What You Dont Know will find a good audience as a rescue manual for the young, as it assuages the anxieties facing the postgraduate or the postdoctoral teacher. The book, which clearly draws on a wide range of teaching experience on the U.S. scene, offers good advice and outlines some useful strategies. Huston does, moreover, dig up issues that have become ever more pressing over the past few years. -- Leslie Gofton * Times Higher Education *Sometimes teachers might find themselves filling in, and Teaching What You Dont Know is a handy book to help them deal with unexpected situations. * Bookseller and Publisher *When top-down support and open communication become the norm, teaching outside ones expertise can cease to be the nightmarish experience many feel it to be and become the illuminating and rewarding experience that Huston describes. While this is undoubtedly important, Hustons consistently optimistic treatment of this subject and her clear suggestions for struggling teachers remain the books greatest strengths. Teaching What You Dont Know is a pleasure to read and should be required reading in graduate pedagogy classes across disciplines. -- Adam Pacton * Pedagogy *Have you ever been asked to deliver a lecture at short notice on a topic that is outside your comfort zone? ...If so, read this book. In fact, ever found yourself wondering how you could improve your teaching, even of topics well within your expertise? Again, if so, read this book. -- Celia Popovic * Innovations in Education and Teaching International * Promotional This is one of the best books Ive read on university teaching and learning in a long time. It addresses an issue thats seldom discussed, in a book thats both carefully researched and wonderfully sparkling in style. The author makes a strong case that teaching outside your area of expertise is a serious and extensive problem, and she offers some highly practical advice about how to meet the challenges. I would make this book a standard text for both our new faculty program and teaching fellows program, and I suspect that many other programs will want to do the same. -- Ken Bain, author of What the Best College Teachers Do Prizes Short-listed for ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award: Education 2009 Review Quote Moving behind the reassuring public image of professorial expertise, Huston exposes a growing but still largely hidden academic reality: university teachers--sometimes even full professors--teaching outside of their field. Interviews with dozens of university faculty convincingly establish the prevalence of the practice and clarify the institutional reasons that it will likely increase in the years ahead. But many readers will quickly move past the analysis of why university faculty must teach outside their specialty to consider the helpful advice on how to do such teaching well...It may surprise librarians how many teachers and administrators seek out this book. Details ISBN0674066170 Author Therese Huston Short Title TEACHING WHAT YOU DONT KNOW Publisher Harvard University Press Language English ISBN-10 0674066170 ISBN-13 9780674066175 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 378.125 Year 2012 Imprint Harvard University Press Place of Publication Cambridge, Mass Country of Publication United States UK Release Date 2012-10-22 NZ Release Date 2012-10-22 Pages 320 Publication Date 2012-10-22 US Release Date 2012-10-22 Audience Professional & Vocational AU Release Date 2012-10-21 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:45418332;

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