500 Tips for Tutors (Paperback, 2 ed)

Chapter 1 Getting your students going; Chapter 1-1 Helping students to prepare to start learning; Chapter 1-2 Helping students to explore how they learn best; Chapter 1-3 Helping students to develop time-management skills; Chapter 1-4 Helping students to develop task-management skills; Chapter 1-5 Helping students to identify the questions they need to answer; Chapter 1-6 Helping students to read more actively; Chapter 1-7 Helping students to read more actively; Chapter 1-8 Organising your studies: a checklist for students; Chapter 2 Starting off, and working together; Chapter 2-9 Finding out what students already know; Chapter 2-10 Helping students to make sense of the learning programme; Chapter 2-11 Getting to know you; Chapter 2-12 Helping students to get the most from tutorials; Chapter 2-13 Helping students to benefit from seminars; Chapter 2-14 Helping students to make the most of small-group sessions; Chapter 2-15 Helping students to make the most of each other; Chapter 2-16 Helping students to learn from each other; Chapter 2-17 Helping students to find and use mentors; Chapter 2-18 Being an expert witness; Chapter 3 The programme itself: lectures, assignments and feedback; Chapter 3-19 Helping students to make the most of your lectures; Chapter 3-20 How not to lecture!; Chapter 3-21 What not to do with PowerPoint™!; Chapter 3-22 Making the most of the overhead projector; Chapter 3-23 Compensating for other people's bad teaching!; Chapter 3-24 Helping students to make notes ? not just take notes; Chapter 3-25 Helping students to write essays; Chapter 3-26 Helping students to write reports; Chapter 3-27 Helping students to learn in laboratories; Chapter 3-28 Helping students to plan their projects; Chapter 3-29 Getting feedback from your students; Chapter 4 Helping students to learn from resources; Chapter 4-30 Designing learning resources; Chapter 4-31 Helping students to use resource-based learning materials; Chapter 4-32 Using moving images to help learning; Chapter 4-33 Helping students to learn online; Chapter 4-34 Helping students to use the library or learning resource centre; Chapter 4-35 Helping students to learn from handouts; Chapter 5 Assessment: demonstrating evidence of achievement; Chapter 5-36 Helping students to see the big picture; Chapter 5-37 Helping students to set their sights high; Chapter 5-38 Helping students to set their sights high; Chapter 5-39 Giving face-to-face feedback to students; Chapter 5-40 Helping students into peer assessment; Chapter 5-41 Helping students into self-assessment; Chapter 5-42 Starting up self-assessment student dialogues; Chapter 5-43 Helping students to negotiate learning agreements; Chapter 5-44 Helping students to revise productively; Chapter 5-45 Helping students to pass exams; Chapter 5-46 What do exams really measure? A discussion checklist; Chapter 5-47 Helping students to get ready for vivas; Chapter 6 Skills for career and life in general; Chapter 6-48 Helping students to cope with being away from home; Chapter 6-49 Helping students to cope with stress; Chapter 6-50 Helping students to recover from two weeks off!; Chapter 6-51 Helping students to recover from failure; Chapter 6-52 Helping students to apply for jobs; Chapter 6-53 Helping students to put together their CVs; Chapter 6-54 Helping students to develop their interview skills;