Motivating Teaching in Higher Education

Edwin G. Ralph, Ph.D., Department of Curriculum Studies, University of Saskatchewan, has created this manual particularly for beginning instructors at the post-secondary level, who have never had previous teacher training. He not only presents the essentials of the instructional planning and implementation process, but in doing so, he provides key principles and practices that have been shown to enhance students' motivation to learn. The manual is a distillation of key information derived from the extensive body of literature on teaching effectiveness and learning motivation, and from Ralph's own 35 years' experience in formal education as a researcher, a teacher (from the elementary through to the college and university levels, in both public and private institutions), a school principal, a college administrator, a career counselor, a school-district curriculum coordinator, a president of an educational publishing firm, a presenter at numerous educational conferences, a nominee and a recipient of several teaching awards, and a father of two adult children (themselves, graduate students).