Techniques of University Teachers - On Methods, Trust, and Response in Classroom Teaching - Series of Translations on University Teaching and Teaching Reform Abroad

Author: Stephen D.
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Publish Date: 2005-12-01
Features: This book was completed in 1990 to commemorate the author's 20 years of teaching at the university. The author wrote this book to tell the real stories from his teaching career. These stories are filled with unexpected twists, surprising events, and sudden surprises, complex, changing, yet passionate. The author wanted to express these passions clearly during the storytelling so that other teachers could see their own emotional shadows in the words. In fact, this book is a survival manual to help university teachers overcome recurring problems and escape various dilemmas in their teaching practice, situations they cannot avoid. Additionally, all university teachers will occasionally experience a sense of incompetence and guilt, as they tend to think that all their colleagues are effortlessly skilled teaching models, while only they struggle to control the classroom. Writing this book was also to alleviate their feelings. Finally, this book is a response to the author's previous teaching life: in those days, everything that happened in the classroom never unfolded as the author had scripted it beforehand; when students left after class, they didn't smile with a sense of self-achievement, but instead, their expressions were anger, confusion, and resentment.