Books written by James M. Lang
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Life on the Tenure Track: Lessons from the First Year
For today's class I assigned a story by James Joyce called “The Encounter.” The narrator, a young Irish boy, describes how he was inspired by pulp novels about the American West to take a day off from school and embark upon an adventure ...
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Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning
A taxonomy for learning, teaching, and assessing: A revision of Bloom's taxonomy of educational objectives. New York, NY: Pearson. Angelo, T. A., & Cross, K. P. (1993). Classroom assessment techniques: A handbook for college teachers.
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Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning
But this is no mere collection of tips—instead, it's a powerful, coherent framework aligned to the realities of teaching in higher education today." —Michelle Miller, director, First Year Learning Initiative, University College, and ...
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Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning
But this is no mere collection of tips—instead, it's a powerful, coherent framework aligned to the realities of teaching in higher education today." —Michelle Miller, director, First Year Learning Initiative, University College, and ...
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Distracted: Why Students Can't Focus and what You Can Do about it
In Distracted, Lang rethinks the practice of teaching, revealing how educators can structure their classrooms less as distraction-free zones and more as environments where they can actively cultivate their students' attention.
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Teaching the Literature Survey Course: New Strategies for College Faculty
The volume is at once a set of practical suggestions for working teachers (including sample documents like worksheets and syllabi) and a provocative engagement with the question of what introductory courses can and should be.
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Distracted: Why Students Can't Focus and What You Can Do About It
In Distracted, Lang rethinks the practice of teaching, revealing how educators can structure their classrooms less as distraction-free zones and more as environments where they can actively cultivate their students' attention.
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Cheating Lessons
Cheating Lessons is a guide to tackling academic dishonesty at its roots.
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Small Teaching K-8: Igniting the Teaching Spark with the Science of Learning
Knowledge dumps do the same, asking students to share everything they know (or think they know) about a topic before you teach them. Prior knowledge can then be reinforced, and misconceptions can be squashed. Like the carousel feature ...
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Small Teaching Online: Applying Learning Science in Online Classes
This book offers small teaching strategies that will positively impact the online classroom. This book outlines practical and feasible applications of theoretical principles to help your online students learn.
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Small Teaching Online: Applying Learning Science in Online Classes
This book offers small teaching strategies that will positively impact the online classroom. This book outlines practical and feasible applications of theoretical principles to help your online students learn.
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Life on the Tenure Track: Lessons from the First Year
Engaging and accessible, Life on the Tenure Track will delight and enlighten faculty, graduate students, and administrators alike.
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Small Teaching Online: Applying Learning Science in Online Classes
This book offers small teaching strategies that will positively impact the online classroom. This book outlines practical and feasible applications of theoretical principles to help your online students learn.
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Life on the Tenure Track: Lessons from the First Year
Lang narrates the story of his first year on the tenure track with wit and wisdom, detailing his moments of confusion, frustration, and even elation—in the classroom, at his writing desk, during his office hours, in departmental ...
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On Course: A Week-by-Week Guide to Your First Semester of College Teaching
Packed with anecdotes and concrete suggestions, this book will keep both inexperienced and veteran teachers on course as they navigate the calms and storms of classroom life.
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Teaching the Literature Survey Course: New Strategies for College Faculty
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction - James M. Lang -- Part One: Pedagogies -- Chapter 1 - Mapping the Literature Survey -- Chapter 2 - Creative Imitation: The Survey as an Occasion for Emulating Style -- Chapter 3 - Bingo Pedagogy: Team ...
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Cheating Lessons
For James Lang, cultural or sociological explanations like these are red herrings.
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Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning
In this book, James Lang presents a strategy for improving student learning with a series of small but powerful changes that make a big difference―many of which can be put into practice in a single class period.
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Learning Sickness: A Year with Crohn's Disease
Diagnosed at the age of 26, the author spent the next five years coming to terms with how to live with a chronic illness.
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Docencia pequeña: Lecciones cotidianas de las ciencias del aprendizaje
... pequeña puede tomar una de estas tres formas: • Actividades de aprendizaje breves (5-10 minutos) en el aula o a ... pequeña puede ocasionalmente virar desde «una pequeña parte de una clase» hasta «una pequeña parte del curso». En otras ...