Wentzel, Arnold,

Teaching complex ideas : how to translate your expertise into great instruction / Arnold Wentzel. - New York : Routledge, 2019. - xix, 230 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Know what not to teach -- What makes an explanation great? -- A step-by-step approach to explain complex ideas clearly -- Help students to remember creatively and forget as much as possible -- How to make boring and complex ideas interesting -- If you want students to reason like experts, don't teach them how to reason -- Transform assessments into learning experiences and eliminate cheating -- Create valid conventional assessments but consider alternatives -- Rethink educational technology by noticing what everyone else misses -- Design presentations that make your lectures much more useful -- The future of professor-experts.

9781138482371 (pbk) 9781138482364 (hbk)


College teaching--Methodology.
Creative teaching.
Effective teaching.
Teaching.

LB2331 / .W398 2019

378.1/25