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  • Small Teaching

    Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning

    by James M. Lang ...
    A freshly updated edition featuring research-based teaching techniques that faculty in any discipline can easily implementResearch into how we learn can help facilitate better student learning—if we know how to apply it. Small Teaching fills the gap in higher education literature between the primary research in cognitive theory and the classroom environment. In this book, James Lang presents a ... Read more

    $19.00 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Small Teaching Online

    Applying Learning Science in Online Classes

    by Flower Darby, James M. Lang ...
    Find out how to apply learning science in online classesThe concept of small teaching is simple: small and strategic changes have enormous power to improve student learning. Instructors face unique and specific challenges when teaching an online course. This book offers small teaching strategies that will positively impact the online classroom.This book outlines practical and feasible applications ... Read more

    $19.00 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Distracted

    Why Students Can't Focus and What You Can Do About It

    by James M. Lang ...
    Keeping students focused can be difficult in a world filled with distractions—which is why a renowned educator created a scientific solution to one of every teacher's biggest problems.Why is it so hard to get students to pay attention? Conventional wisdom blames iPhones, insisting that access to technology has ruined students' ability to focus. The logical response is to ban electronics in class ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Quick Hits for Creativity in the Classroom

    Successful Strategies from Award-Winning Teachers

    by Julie Goodspeed-Chadwick, Deborah Elizabeth Whaley, Sumreen Asim, Clark Barwick, Kirsten Behling, Asha Leena Bhandary, Kelly Blewett, Marsha Bryant0, Dacia Charlesworth1, Xin Chen2, Dhabih V. Chulhai3, Doyin Coker-Kolo4, Janet R. Decker5, Scott A. Desmond6, Amy E. Earhart7, Emily Esola8, Hilary Florian9, Elizabeth M. Goering0, Edwina Helton1, Debora S. Herold2, Jay R. Howard3, Kathy E. Johnson4, Michael L. Johnson II5, Kevin J. Jones6, John Paul M. Kanwit7, Johanna Lampela8, James M. Lang9, J. D. Mendez0, Deborah M. Mix1, Lori L. Montalbano2, Robin K. Morgan3, Michael C. Morrone4, Charmaine Mullins-Jaime5, Joe Packowski6, George Micajah Phillips7, Krista Quesenberry8, Vanessa L. Rapatz9, Elisa Räsänen0, T. J. Rivard1, Lee M. Roberts2, Miranda Yaggi Rodak3, Katherine C. Ryan4, Zihang Shao5, Carrie Sue Shaver6, Sean Sidky7, Jennifer J. Smith8, Gabrielle Stecher9, Courtney Stephenson0, George W. Towers1, Lana Watson2, Dawn Wisher3 ...
    Quick Hits for Creativity in the Classroom introduces faculty, administrators, and staff to creative techniques that can be incorporated into the classroom at undergraduate and graduate levels. These techniques from the arts, humanities, social sciences, and sciences can enhance learning and support professional development experiences for students and faculty alike.While faculty are experts in ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Write Like You Teach

    Taking Your Classroom Skills to a Bigger Audience

    by James M. Lang ...
    Series series Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing
    This engaging guide offers practical advice to teachers on how to utilize their existing classroom skills to become more effective public writers.After years spent cultivating their expertise and passion for a subject, scholars are uniquely positioned to write great books. Yet, accustomed to writing for an audience of their peers, many scholars find it challenging to adapt their writing to a style ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Cheating Lessons

    Learning from Academic Dishonesty

    by James M. Lang ...
    Nearly three-quarters of college students cheat during their undergraduate careers, a startling number attributed variously to the laziness of today’s students, their lack of a moral compass, or the demands of a hypercompetitive society. For James Lang, cultural or sociological explanations like these are red herrings. His provocative new research indicates that students often cheat because their ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Small Teaching K-8

    Igniting the Teaching Spark with the Science of Learning

    by Sarah Connell Sanders, James M. Lang ...
    Cognitive science research-based teaching techniques any educator can implement in their K-8 classroomIn Small Teaching K-8, a team of veteran educators bridges the gap between cognitive theory and the K-8 classroom environment, applying the same foundational research found in author James Lang’s bestselling Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning to the elementary and middle ... Read more

    $16.00 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Life on the Tenure Track

    Lessons from the First Year

    by James M. Lang ...
    In this fast-paced and lively account, Jim Lang asks—and mostly answers—the questions that confront every new faculty member as well as those who dream of becoming new faculty members: Will my students like me? Will my teaching schedule allow me time to do research and write? Do I really want to spend the rest of my life in this profession? Is anyone awake in the backrow?Lang narrates the story of ... Read more

    $21.29 USD

  • Teaching the Literature Survey Course

    New Strategies for College Faculty

    Edited by James M. Lang, Gwynn Dujardin, John A. Staunton ...
    Series series Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
    Teaching the Literature Survey Course makes the case for maintaining—even while re-imagining and re-inventing—the place of the survey as a transformative experience for literature students. Through essays both practical and theoretical, the collection presents survey teachers with an exciting range of new strategies for energizing their teaching and engaging their students in this vital encounter ... Read more

    Was $20.99 USD Now $10.79 USD

  • On Course

    A Week-by-Week Guide to Your First Semester of College Teaching

    by James M. Lang ...
    You go into teaching with high hopes: to inspire students, to motivate them to learn, to help them love your subject. Then you find yourself facing a crowd of expectant faces on the first day of the first semester, and you think “Now what do I do?”Practical and lively, On Course is full of experience-tested, research-based advice for graduate students and new teaching faculty. It provides a range ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Audiobook

    Small Teaching

    Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning

    by James M. Lang ...
    Narrated by Daniel Thomas May ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 27 min

    Research into how we learn has opened the door for utilizing cognitive theory to facilitate better student learning. But that's easier said than done. Many books about cognitive theory introduce radical but impractical theories, failing to make the connection to the classroom. In Small Teaching, James Lang presents a strategy for improving student learning with a series of modest but powerful ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    Small Teaching Online

    Applying Learning Science in Online Classes

    by Flower Darby ...
    Narrated by Chloe Dolandis ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 56 min

    The concept of small teaching is simple: small and strategic changes have enormous power to improve student learning. Instructors face unique and specific challenges when teaching an online course. This book offers small teaching strategies that will positively impact the online classroom.This book outlines practical and feasible applications of theoretical principles to help your online students ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook