The Lecturer’s Survival Guide: An Introduction to Successful Teaching in Higher Education - Hardcover

Marie Mealey, Ann

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0367760568 ISBN 13: 9780367760564

Verlag: Routledge, 2023

Inhaltsangabe

Serving as a comprehensive introduction to those new to teaching in higher education, this essential guide discusses pedagogical approaches that are current in higher education and the wider responsibilities of teaching within higher education. This book outlines the key aspects of navigating the role, including becoming a personal tutor and supporting the needs of a diverse student body. Readers will benefit from advice on promoting wellness, best practice while teaching and enjoying their role as they embark on their first academic job. It also underlines throughout that all lecturers need to be guided by a set of values around respect for students and the need to create learning environments that move away from any 'ghetto' style approaches to higher education. It suggests that our values as lecturers are key to us creating and exemplifying the much-needed ethical and just practice in our classrooms so that they mirror the kind of society we would like to live in and enable every student to feel as though they 'belong' at university. Written in an informative yet accessible manner, chapters explore the following: The challenges of transitioning from student to lecturer The key theories that underpin successful curriculum design Assessment and feedback as a source of empowerment within higher education teaching The need for academic personal tutoring Staying well when teaching within higher education Written for those who are new to higher education or to teaching in this setting, The Lecturer's Survival Guide is an essential read for any higher education teacher who wishes to ensure successful teaching whilst maintaining a healthy work-life balance.

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Ann Marie Mealey has held multiple academic leadership roles in HE, including Academic Group Leader for the Humanities; Senior Teaching Fellow/Reader and Programme Coordinator for the PGCertHE at Leeds Trinity University, UK; and Associate Dean for Learning and Teaching (Teaching Enhancement) at GBS. She is currently Director of Catholic Mission at Leeds Trinity University - a role which requires her to embed the values of the university into its strategic objectives.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2023
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0367760568
• ISBN 13: 9780367760564
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 114
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: preigu GmbH & Co. KG; mail@preigu.de; ; Lengericher Landstr. 19; Osnabrück; Niedersachsen; 49078; Deutschland