Teaching complex ideas how to translate your expertise into great instruction - Wentzel, Arnold (New York Routledge, 2019)
Know what not to teach -- What makes an explanation great? -- A step-by-step approach to explain complex ideas clearly -- Help students to remember creatively and forget as much as possible -- How to make boring and complex ideas interesting -- If you want students to reason like experts, don't teach them how to reason -- Transform assessments into learning experiences and eliminate cheating -- Create valid conventional assessments but consider alternatives -- Rethink educational technology by noticing what everyone else misses -- Design presentations that make your lectures much more useful -- The future of professor-experts.
Keywords: College teaching -- Methodology; Creative teaching; Effective teaching