Engaging Ideas: The Professor's Guide to Integrating Writing, Critical Thinking, and Active Learning in the ClassroomLearn to design interest-provoking writing and critical thinking activities and incorporate them into your courses in a way that encourages inquiry, exploration, discussion, and debate, with Engaging Ideas, a practical nuts-and-bolts guide for teachers from any discipline. Integrating critical thinking with writing-across-the-curriculum approaches, the book shows how teachers from any discipline can incorporate these activities into their courses. This edition features new material dealing with genre and discourse community theory, quantitative/scientific literacy, blended and online learning, and other current issues. |
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Contents
Preface About the Author | |
Connections Between Thinking | |
Helping Writers Think Rhetorically | |
Using a Range of Genres to Extend Critical | |
Dealing with Issues of Grammar and Correctness | |
Designing ProblemBased | |
The Traditional Method | |
Using Small Groups to Coach Thinking | |
Bringing More Critical Thinking into Lectures | |
Enhancing Learning and Critical Thinking | |
Assignments | |
Writing Assignments in the Context of | |
Reading Commenting | |
My Own Approach to Using Rubrics | |
The Role of Rubrics in Coaching | |
Examples of an Effective Assignment Handout | |
A Potpourri of Other Kinds of Alternative Formal | |
Informal Exploratory Writing Activities | |
Coaching Students | |
Helping Students Read Difficult Texts | |
Refer Students to Your Institutions Writing Center | |
Writing Comments on Students Papers | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Engaging Ideas: The Professor's Guide to Integrating Writing, Critical Thinking, and Active Learning in the Classroom Jossey-Bass higher and adult education series |
| Author | John C. Bean |
| Contributor | Maryellen Weimer |
| Edition | 2, illustrated |
| Publisher | John Wiley & Sons, 2011 |
| ISBN | 1118062337, 9781118062333 |
| Length | 384 pages |
| Subjects | › Education / Distance, Open & Online Education Education / General Education / Higher Education / Learning Styles |
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