How to Become an Effective Course Director

• Main Authors: Newton, Bruce W. (Author), Menna, Jay H. (Author), Tank, Patrick W. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2009.
• Subjects: Education.; Life sciences.; Education (general).; Learning & Instruction.; Teaching and Teacher Education.; Life Sciences, general.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-84905-8

If you think you know what students expect from a course director  think again. The surprising results show that students desire qualities in a course director that are different from what course directors think students want. This book gives advice on how to manage the differences in expectations...

Table of Contents:

• What Is A Course Director?- Whose Idea Was This?- Anatomy of a Course Director
• Living With Our Differences
• Where Do I Start?- Managing Courses with Laboratories
• Responding to Student Problems and Issues
• Measuring Course Effectiveness
• Documentation
• Impediments
• Pitfalls.