Making Teaching Work
Teaching Smarter in Post-Compulsory Education
- Phil Race - Independent Consultant
- Ruth Pickford - Leeds Metropolitan University, UK
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.
The authors emphasize 'teaching smarter' - helping busy, hard-pressed teachers to increase the efficiency as well as effectiveness of their work. Written with both full-time and part-time staff in mind, the book allows teaching staff to balance the various tasks which make up their workload, including the increasing paperwork and administration they encounter whilst carrying out assessment, teaching and providing feedback to students.
The book addresses a wide range of aspects of assessment, learning and teaching in post-compulsory education including:
- how to provide a supportive learning environment - including online learning
- how to design and manage formative assessment and feedback
- how to support diverse students - including addressing and achieving student satisfaction.
- developing teaching - including lecturing, small-group teaching, supporting individual learning and dealing with disruptive students
- how to use research to improve teaching
- creatively designing curriculum
- promoting student employability
- broadening horizons - including widening and deepening participation
- addressing and achieving student satisfaction.
It is a self-sufficient and thought-provoking resource about teaching and learning for all practitioners in post-compulsory education.
A very good book which will really benefit my students for their future career.
This book very nicely considers all corners of the FE classroom and how a new lecturer should practice in them. It doesn't rely too much on theory but this is its strength. So many educational books for learning lecturers do not cover basics like differentiation and disruptive behaviour in practical terms.
This kind of book is very valuable then at providing the skeleton for education's theoretical flesh.
Easy to read, but not quite critical enough or aimed at the right audience. (M level learners) I would suggest thsi book for a level 6 course in mentor preparation I teach, however.
A well structured and helpful guide to making teaching work. Some excellent and valid guidance with some helpful tips- a great dip in and out resource.
excellent content links to first year DTLLS
I like the straight-forward style of this book and the way it builds on concepts my students will be familiar with.
