Engaging Ideas: The Professor's Guide to Integrating Writing, Critical Thinking, and Active Learning in the Classroom (Jossey Bass Higher and Adult Education)

by Maryellen Weimer (Foreword), JohnC.Bean (Author)

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  Paperback
  2011

  $7.26

  Learn to design interest-provoking writing and critical thinking activities and incorporate them into your courses in a way that encourages inquiry, exploration, discussion, and debate, with Engaging Ideas, a practical nuts-and-bolts guide for teachers from any discipline.

• Used

  Paperback
  1996

  $4.23

  A practical nuts and bolts guide for teachers from any discipline who want to design interest-provoking writing and critical thinking activities. Engaging Ideas: * Shows how teachers can encourage inquiry, exploration, discussion, and debate in their courses. * Presents a wide variety of strategies for stimulating active learning and for coaching writing and critical thinking. * Offers teachers concrete advice on how to design courses, structure assignment, use class time, critique student performance, and model critical thinking activities. * Demonstrates how writing can easily be integrated with such other critical thinking activities and inquiry discussions, simulation games, classroom debates, and interactive lectures.