What Every College Student Should Know

How to Find the Best Teachers and Learn the Most from Them

Ernie Lepore, Sarah-Jane Leslie (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

140 Seiten

2002
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8135-3066-6 (ISBN)

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A guide to discovering the best teachers at your school or college and learning everything you can from them. Case studies provide real-life examples of how to put ideas into practice as the authors show how to evaluate professors, what to look for in a syllabus and what resources to check.

Students do months of research before choosing just the right college, but once theyre on campus, how many of them actually research the professors who are teaching their classes? To optimize your college education you need to find your schools best teachers but how?

What Every College Student Should Know is a guide to discovering the best teachers at your school and learning everything you can from them. Here, the unique writing combination of a professor and a student provides you with perspectives from both sides of the equation. You'll learn:

What questions to ask in selecting an instructor
How to evaluate professors based on the first class sessions
What to look for in a syllabus and grading policies
How to identify a professors teaching style and how to adapt to it

Even the most outgoing students can expect only limited contact with their professors in the classroom, so the authors also provide tactics to take full advantage of meetings outside regular class time, such as:

Advice on how to review your exam or paper with your professor
Ways to build a relationship with a teacher and get invaluable feedback on your work
Tips on how to get the best recommendations from proffessors

Ernie Lepore is the director of the Center for Cognitive Science at Rutgers University as well as a professor in the philosophy department. Sarah-Jane Leslie, a student in the Rutgers University Honors Program, is a National Merit Scholar and has been elected to Phi Beta Kappa.

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Why Students Need This Book
1. Before Classes Begin: Finding Good Teachers
2. In the Classroom: Getting the Most our of Good Teachers
3. Outside the Classroom: Cultivating Relationships with Good Teachers
4. After Class: Building on Relationships with Good Teachers
5. The Ins and Outs of Recommendations
Afterword: Why Bad Teaching Persists
A Guide to Academic Vocabulary

Erscheint lt. Verlag	31.3.2002
Verlagsort	New Brunswick NJ
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Gewicht	227 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Familie / Erziehung
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
ISBN-10	0-8135-3066-0 / 0813530660
ISBN-13	978-0-8135-3066-6 / 9780813530666
Zustand	Neuware