Strategies for Effective Teaching: A Handbook for Teaching Assistants – University of Wisconsin – Madison College of Engineering.
From the foreword:
We help our students understand engineering concepts and go beyond the knowledge level to higher levels of thinking. We help them to apply, analyze, and synthesize, to create new knowledge, and solve new problems. So, too, as teachers, we need to recognize our challenge to go beyond knowledge about effective teaching. We need to apply these strategies, analyze what works, and take action to modify or synthesize our learnings to help our students learn in a way that works for us as individuals and teams of teachers.
The learning community consists of both students and teachers. Students benefit from effective teaching and learning strategies inside and outside the classroom. This Handbook focuses on teaching strategies you can use in the classroom to foster effective learning.
Helping students learn is our challenge as teachers. Identifying effective teaching strategies, therefore, is our challenge as we both assess the effectiveness of our current teaching style and consider innovative ways to improve our teaching to match our students’ learning styles.
I mention this as a resource for anyone who is trying to educate others, students, clients or a more general audience about topic maps.