Engaging ideas :
Bean, John C.(ed.)
Engaging ideas : the professor's guide to integrating writing, critical thinking, and active learning in the classroom / John C. Bean ; foreword by Maryellen Weimer. - 1st ed. - San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, 1996. - xxi, 282 p. : ill. ; 28 cm. - The Jossey-Bass higher and adult education series .
Includes Index
Using writing to promote thinking: a busy professor's guide to the whole book --
Part one. Understanding connections between thinking and writing --
How writing is related to critical thinking --
Engaging all learners: valuing professional and personal writing --
Dealing with issues of grammar and correctness --
Part two. Designing problem-based assignments --
Formal writing assignments --
Informal, exploratory writing activities --
Part three. Coaching students as learners, thinkers, and writers --
Designing tasks for active thinking and learning --
Helping students read difficult texts --
Coaching thinking through the use of small groups --
Alternative approaches to active learning in the classroom --
Enhancing learning and critical thinking in essay exams --
Encouraging engagement and inquiry in research papers --
Part four. Reading, commenting on, and grading student writing --
Coaching the writing process and handling the paper load --
Writing comments on students' papers --
Developing and applying grading criteria.
0787902039
9780787902032
English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching.
Critical thinking--Study and teaching.
Academic writing--Study and teaching.
PE1404 / .B37
Engaging ideas : the professor's guide to integrating writing, critical thinking, and active learning in the classroom / John C. Bean ; foreword by Maryellen Weimer. - 1st ed. - San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, 1996. - xxi, 282 p. : ill. ; 28 cm. - The Jossey-Bass higher and adult education series .
Includes Index
Using writing to promote thinking: a busy professor's guide to the whole book --
Part one. Understanding connections between thinking and writing --
How writing is related to critical thinking --
Engaging all learners: valuing professional and personal writing --
Dealing with issues of grammar and correctness --
Part two. Designing problem-based assignments --
Formal writing assignments --
Informal, exploratory writing activities --
Part three. Coaching students as learners, thinkers, and writers --
Designing tasks for active thinking and learning --
Helping students read difficult texts --
Coaching thinking through the use of small groups --
Alternative approaches to active learning in the classroom --
Enhancing learning and critical thinking in essay exams --
Encouraging engagement and inquiry in research papers --
Part four. Reading, commenting on, and grading student writing --
Coaching the writing process and handling the paper load --
Writing comments on students' papers --
Developing and applying grading criteria.
0787902039
9780787902032
English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching.
Critical thinking--Study and teaching.
Academic writing--Study and teaching.
PE1404 / .B37