Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- Sources to chapter quotations
- Why this book on teaching management?
- 1 Fundamental elements in teaching
- 2 Levels of learning: one, two, and three
- 3 Adult learning theory: it matters
- 4 Planning a course: trips and tips
- 5 Planning a class: no detail is too small
- 6 Lecturing: the possibilities and the perils
- 7 Managing discussions
- 8 Case method: fostering multidimensional learning
- 9 Role-playing
- 10 Case writing: crafting a vehicle of interest and impact
- 11 Case teaching notes: getting from here to there
- 12 Action learning
- 13 Experiential methods
- 14 Enhancing the conversation: audiovisual tools and techniques
- 15 Executive education: contributing to organizational competitive advantage
- 16 Using technology to teach management
- 17 Counseling students
- 18 Evaluating students: the twin tasks of certification and development
- 19 Teaching evaluations: feedback that can help and hurt
- 20 Research presentations
- 21 Managing a degree program: behind the ‘glory’
- 22 Managing a nondegree client program: an overview
- 23 Dealing with the press
- 24 Managing yourself and your time
- 25 Using teaching portfolios and course portfolios
- 26 Conclusion: is this on the exam?
- Index
5 - Planning a class: no detail is too small
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 February 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- Sources to chapter quotations
- Why this book on teaching management?
- 1 Fundamental elements in teaching
- 2 Levels of learning: one, two, and three
- 3 Adult learning theory: it matters
- 4 Planning a course: trips and tips
- 5 Planning a class: no detail is too small
- 6 Lecturing: the possibilities and the perils
- 7 Managing discussions
- 8 Case method: fostering multidimensional learning
- 9 Role-playing
- 10 Case writing: crafting a vehicle of interest and impact
- 11 Case teaching notes: getting from here to there
- 12 Action learning
- 13 Experiential methods
- 14 Enhancing the conversation: audiovisual tools and techniques
- 15 Executive education: contributing to organizational competitive advantage
- 16 Using technology to teach management
- 17 Counseling students
- 18 Evaluating students: the twin tasks of certification and development
- 19 Teaching evaluations: feedback that can help and hurt
- 20 Research presentations
- 21 Managing a degree program: behind the ‘glory’
- 22 Managing a nondegree client program: an overview
- 23 Dealing with the press
- 24 Managing yourself and your time
- 25 Using teaching portfolios and course portfolios
- 26 Conclusion: is this on the exam?
- Index
Summary
The teacher's task is not to implant facts but to place the subject to be learned in front of the learner and, through sympathy, emotion, imagination, and patience, to awaken in the learner the restless drive for answers and insights which enlarge the personal life and give it meaning.
– Nathan M. Pusey, President, Harvard University, New York Times, March 22, 1959Once you've designed a course, probably with topics for each day as outlined in the previous chapter, you'll need to begin designing the individual classes. You may decide to break your course into modules and then into individual classes. We'll address briefly the issue of modules and then address some tools and techniques for designing classes themselves.
Modules
Modules are groups of classes that address a single topic or a set of closely related topics. You may decide, given the constraints of calendar, range of topics in the course, and level of your students, that you will put anywhere from two to ten classes in a module. Modules of two classes can be very useful in the beginning of a one- or two-year degree program to establish an overview of the topics and frameworks that a course will explore over the program. Likewise, ten-session modules can be useful in developing behavioral skills in courses designed to leave students prepared to do specific things on the job. In our experience, however, modules of two are often too short to do much more than introduce a framework, while modules of ten take up too much space
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- Teaching ManagementA Field Guide for Professors, Consultants, and Corporate Trainers, pp. 71 - 82Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2006