Making Teaching Work
Teaching Smarter in Post-Compulsory Education
- Phil Race - Independent Consultant
- Ruth Pickford - Leeds Metropolitan University, UK
The authors emphasise 'teaching smarter' - helping busy, hard-pressed teachers to increase the efficiency as well as effectiveness of their work. Written with both full-time and part-time staff in mind, this book allows teaching staff to balance the various tasks which make up their workload, including the increasing paperwork and administration they encounter whilst carrying out assessment, teaching and providing feedback to students.
The book addresses a wide range of aspects of assessment, learning and teaching in post-compulsory education including:
- How to provide a supportive learning environment - including online learning
- How to design and manage formative assessment and feedback
- How to support diverse students - including addressing and achieving student satisfaction
- Developing teaching - including lecturing, small-group teaching, supporting individual learning and dealing with disruptive students
- How to use research to improve teaching
- Creatively designing curriculum
- Promoting student employability
- Broadening horizons - including widening and deepening participation
- Addressing and achieving student satisfaction
It is a self-sufficient and thought-provoking resource about teaching and learning for all practitioners in post-compulsory education.
Phil Race provides useful advice on dealing with many of the issues facing lecturers in HE today. Based on sound pedagogic principles, the information provided is helpful to both those new to teaching in post-compulsory education and established lecturers wanting to ring the changes.
Essential reading therefore for all lecturers!
I found this very useful for my own practice, also shared it with students and colleagues completing a variety of courses.
This is good but is one of many which are chosen and will complement the recommended reading
A very accessible book for those teaching in post compulsory education. A good chapter on disruptive learners and how to address this
Easy read for learning students.
Continuing course extension. Great reference
I like the straight-forward style of this book and the way it builds on concepts my students will be familiar with.
excellent content links to first year DTLLS
Another clear, concise text from Phil Race that gets straight to the point. An invaluable resource for both students and teachers
This text considers a good range of the practices required for teaching adults and it will be a text that we recommend to our DTLLS learners. I do feel that it misses out on differentiation, but overall well written.
