Instructors and Their Jobs 4th Edition by WR Miller, MF Miller ISBN 0826941664 9780826941664

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ISBN 10: 0826941664

ISBN 13: 9780826941664

Author:  W. R. Miller, M. F. Miller 

Instructors and Their Jobs 4th Edition: This comprehensive book can help instructors achieve instructional goals with time-saving suggestions on how to plan, prepare for, and conduct classes as well as guidance for measuring, evaluating, and enhancing student achievement. Theoretical and practical aspects of educational principles are related to the challenges instructors face every day. This edition includes a new chapter, E-Learning Courses and Programs, that covers the development and implementation of effective online instruction. The Industry-Based Instruction chapter addresses functional skills, soft skills, and technical skills in an industrial training enviornment.

 

Instructors and Their Jobs 4th Edition Table of contents:

Chapter 1 – Instructor’s Role

• Introduction
• Technical competency
  • Benefits
  • Limitations
• Professional competency
  • Instructional planning
  • Instructional delivery
  • Instructional evaluation
• Personal competency
  • Personal characteristics
  • Behavior
• Review

Chapter 2 – Learning Process

• Introduction
• Learning theory and principles
  • Learning through experience
  • Learning related to behavior or performance
  • Psychomotor learning
  • Cognitive learning
  • Role of memory in learning
• Learning processes
  • Learning by trial and error
  • Learning by observation
  • Learning by doing
  • Transfer of learning
  • Learning curves and plateaus
• Learning types and conditions
  • Levels of learning
• Review

Chapter 3 – Influences on Learning

• Introduction
• Individual differences
  • Diversity
  • Aptitude, ability, and achievement
  • Intelligence and learning
  • Physical characteristics and learning
  • Needs, desires, and interests
  • Learner frustration
  • Performance differences
• Instructor’s personal influence
  • Attitude
  • Relationship and behavior
• Influence of instruction
  • Learning environment
  • Organization for instruction
  • Knowledge of results
  • Repetition and skill development
• Review

Chapter 4 – Identifying Content and Specifying Behaviors

• Introduction
• Analysis
• Occupational analysis and curriculum development
  • Developing a curriculum (DACUM)
  • Traditional occupational analysis
• Translating content into objectives
  • Outcome-based instruction
  • Goals and objectives
  • Elements of performance objectives
  • Writing performance objectives
• Review

Chapter 5 – Instructional Planning

• Introduction
• Planning for instruction
  • Macro and micro planning
  • Conceptual framework
  • Systems approach
• Course planning
  • Courses of study
  • Unit of instruction
  • Course syllabus
  • Handouts and organization
• Designing lessons and learning packages
  • Components
  • Formats
  • Lesson planning
  • Sample format and plans
• Review

Chapter 6 – Written Instructional Materials

• Introduction
• Books and handbooks
  • Textbook selection
  • Professional and technical articles
  • Copyright Revision Act of 1976
• Instruction sheets
  • Operation sheets
  • Information sheets
  • Job sheets
  • Assignment sheets
  • Advantages of instruction sheets
  • Limitations of instruction sheets
• Review

Chapter 7 – Oral Presentation and Questioning Strategies

• Introduction
• Planning presentations
  • Relationship to lesson plan
  • Outline preparation
  • Presentation preparation
• Making presentations
  • Audience attention
  • Physical behavior
  • Clarity of presentation
  • Presentation conclusion
• Developing oral questioning strategies
  • Types of questions
  • Characteristics of good questions
  • Value of questions
  • Use of effective questions
• Review

Chapter 8 – Discussion and Group Participation Methods

• Introduction
• Instructor’s role in group participation
• Directed discussion
  • Planning a discussion
  • Leading discussion
  • Teaching through discussion
• Group participation methods
  • Cooperative learning
  • Role-playing
  • Brainstorming
  • Nominal group process
  • Quality circles
• Review

Chapter 9 – Demonstrating

• Introduction
• Demonstration method
  • Appropriateness
  • Timing
  • Skill development
• Planning a demonstration
  • Analyzing tasks
  • Tools, materials, and equipment
  • Performance standards
• Conducting a demonstration
  • Physical setting
  • Telling, showing, and questioning
  • Instructional aids
  • Assistants
• Following up a demonstration
• Review

Chapter 10 – Instructional Media and Devices

• Introduction
• Instructional media
  • Media impact on learning
  • Need for instructional media
  • Classification of media
  • Types of media
• Media materials and devices
  • Multimedia projector
  • Whiteboard
  • Overhead projector
  • Slide projector
  • Opaque projector
  • Television and video monitors
  • Audio recordings
  • Simulators
  • Nonprojected graphics
  • Chalkboard
  • Models
  • Programmed instruction
• Effective media use
  • Characteristics of effective media materials
  • Factors affecting media use
• Review

Chapter 11 – Computers in Instruction

• Introduction
• Personal computers
  • Computer hardware
  • Computer software
• Computer use in education
  • Computer-assisted instruction
  • Drill and practice programs
  • Tutorial CAI programs
  • Simulation programs
  • Classroom management programs
  • Graphics programs
  • Word processing programs
  • Internet
  • Other applications
• Review

Chapter 12 – E-Learning Courses and Programs

• Introduction
• E-learning
  • Institutional requirements
  • Accessing an online course
• Planning e-learning courses and programs
  • Conducting a needs assessment
  • Preparing learner orientation materials
  • Identifying instructional objectives
  • Developing a course syllabus
  • Preparing/developing instructional materials
  • Implementing the course or program
  • Continuously evaluating learning progress
• Blended learning
• Review

Chapter 13 – Measuring and Evaluating Student Achievement

• Introduction
• Concepts related to evaluation
  • Purposes of evaluation
  • Types of evaluation
  • Descriptive statistics
  • Characteristics of normal distribution
• Achievement testing
  • Observation of students
  • Performance tests
  • Written tests
  • Test construction
  • Developing test items
  • Test evaluation and scoring
• Assignment of grades
  • Translation of scores into grades
• Review

Chapter 14 – Effective Learning Environments

• Introduction
• Instructional planning and organization
  • Lesson plans
  • Management of time
• Teaching-learning environment
  • Starting classes
• Impact of environment on learning
  • Distractions
  • Instructional aids
  • Amount of content to cover
  • Application of theory
  • Influencing the rate of learning
• Review

Chapter 15 – Supervision and On-The-Job Training

• Introduction
• OJT orientation
• OJT methods
  • Planning of OJT instruction
  • Execution of OJT instruction
  • Follow-up of OJT instruction
  • Job rotation
  • OJT coaching
  • OJT progress charts
• Factors associated with effective supervision and OJT
  • Two-way communication
  • Appropriate performance standards
  • Participation in planning and decision making
  • Team spirit
  • Achievement recognition
  • Analysis of underlying causes of errors
  • Good working conditions
  • Constructive criticism
  • Atmosphere of approval
  • Coaching
  • Effective delegation
  • Clear instructions and assignments
  • Effective training
• Review

Chapter 16 – Industry-Based Instruction

• Introduction
• Differences between school-based and industry-based instructional programs
  • Employer needs
  • Learner needs
• Instructional planning
  • Course outline
  • Lesson plans
  • Course announcement
  • Preparation for instruction
• Instructional methods
  • Lecture
  • Demonstration
  • Hands-on activities
  • Guest speaker
  • Industry tours
  • Distance learning
  • Cooperative learning
  • Team teaching
  • Problem solving
  • Questions
  • Learner presentations
  • Modular instruction
  • On-the-job instruction
  • Self-directed instruction
  • Individualized instruction
• Models for industry-based instruction
• Instructional resources
• Learner evaluation in industry-based instruction
• Human resource development (HRD) specialist requirements
• Challenges to HRD specialists
• Review

 

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