A freshly updated edition featuring research-based teaching techniques that faculty in any
discipline can easily implement Research into how we learn can help facilitate better student
learning--if we know how to apply it. Small Teaching fills the gap in higher education
literature between the primary research in cognitive theory and the classroom environment. 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. These are simple interventions that can be integrated into pre-existing
techniques along with clear descriptions of how to do so. Inside you'll find brief classroom
or online learning activities one-time interventions and small modifications in course design
or student communication. These small tweaks will bring your classroom into alignment with the
latest evidence in cognitive research. Each chapter introduces a basic concept in cognitive
research that has implications for classroom teaching explains the rationale for offering it
within a specific time period in a typical class and then provides concrete examples of how
this intervention has been used or could be used by faculty in a variety of disciplines. The
second edition features revised and updated content including a newly authored preface new
examples and techniques updated research and updated resources. * How can you make small
tweaks to your teaching to bring the latest cognitive science into the classroom? * How can you
help students become good at retrieving knowledge from memory? * How does making predictions
now help us learn in the future? * How can you build community in the classroom? Higher
education faculty and administrators as well as K-12 teachers and teacher trainers will love
the easy-to-implement evidence-based techniques in Small Teaching.
