The Happy Professor

How to Teach Undergraduates and Feel Good About It

Bill Coplin (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

152 Seiten

2019
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-1-4758-4905-9 (ISBN)

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Coplin uses his 50+ years of undergraduate teaching experience to present a series of roles, strategies and tactics to help professors prepare undergraduates for life after college. Through his courses and a highly successful undergraduate program, which he designed in the 1970s and still leads, Policy Studies, he has developed ways to increase student engagement and prepare them for careers and citizenship. He has students and alumni that number in the thousands over two generations who attribute their success to Coplin’s approach to teaching. You can check out his website, where more than 96 unsolicited testimonials from successful alumni who are now doing well and doing good are listed.

This book is a self-help manual so that undergraduate professors in all fields can test out his suggestions ideas for themselves. College professors will be much happier because their actions will meet the needs of their students and society.

Bill Coplin is Professor and Director, Public Affairs and Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor for Teaching Excellence at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University. An author of successful textbooks and more than 110 books and articles, he has also received many outstanding teaching awards over 45+ years.

Foreword: Chancellor Kent Syverud, Syracuse University

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I: Roles

Chapter 1: You

Chapter 2: Artist

Chapter 3: Skills Coach

Chapter 4: Advisor

Chapter 5: Boss

Part II: Strategies

Chapter 6: Andragogy, Not Pedagogy

Chapter 7: The Five Laws of the Minimalist

Chapter 8: Everything is Experiential

Chapter 9: Evaluate Yourself

Part III: Engagement Tactics

Chapter 10: Use Undergraduate Teaching Assistants (UTAs)

Chapter 11: Use Dale Carnegie Speeches

Chapter 12: Create Groups for Small In-Class Assignments

Chapter 13: Set the Stage in the First Class

Chapter 14: Use Simulations and Role Plays

Chapter 15: Lie to the Class

Chapter 16: Keep Your Mouth Shut

Chapter 17: Make Laptops and Cell Phones Helpful

Part IV: Organizational Tactics

Chapter 18: Start with the Concrete and Familiar

Chapter 19: Use Modules

Chapter 20: Use Class Time for Coaching

Chapter 21: Debriefing Competitions

Chapter 22: Create Lateness and Absence Policies

Chapter 23: Differentiate Between Points Earned and Points Lost

Chapter 24: Use Extra Credit Points to Stimulate Extra Practice

Chapter 25: Use Group Presentations as Teamwork Practice

Part V: Remedial Tactics

Chapter 26: Writing to Communicate

Chapter 27: Improve Typing

Chapter 28: Simple Computer Applications

Chapter 29: Excel is Life

Chapter 30: Information Searching Basics

Chapter 31: Survey Basics Required

Chapter 32: Quantitative Tools Are Not About Mathematics

Part VI: Citizenship Tactics

Chapter 33: The Easy Way to Community Engagement

Chapter 34: Use Continuums to Avoid the Role of Propagandist

Chapter 35: Use Problem Solving Exercises

Chapter 36: The Order, Freedom, Equality Triangle

Chapter 37: The Grading Exercise

Chapter 38: The Prince System

Conclusion: Where Do You Go from Here?

Appendix A: Debriefing the Grading Exercise

Appendix B: Forecasting with the Prince System

About the Author

Erscheinungsdatum	26.07.2019
Zusatzinfo	3 b/w illustrations; 2 tables
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 231 mm
Gewicht	417 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
ISBN-10	1-4758-4905-2 / 1475849052
ISBN-13	978-1-4758-4905-9 / 9781475849059
Zustand	Neuware