Before entering higher education, most students' learning experiences have been traditional and teacher-centered. Their teachers have typically controlled their learning, with students having had little say about what and how to learn. For many students, encountering a learner-centered environment will be new, possibly unsettling, and may even engender resistance and hostility.
Taking as his starting point students' attitudes toward, and unfamiliarity with, learner-centered classrooms, Terry Doyle explains that motivating students to engage with this practice first of all requires...
Before entering higher education, most students' learning experiences have been traditional and teacher-centered. Their teachers have typically contro...
This book is about organizing and conducting a yearlong professional development program for new faculty. The length of time for the program is a significant departure from current practice at all but a few institutions. Typical programs for new faculty are limited to orientations around the start of a school year and last from one day to one week. Being a new faculty member should not be a "trial by fire" but rather a development process. An academic year allows enough time for the new faculty to be presented with new ideas, practice what they are learning, to share what they know, to get...
This book is about organizing and conducting a yearlong professional development program for new faculty. The length of time for the program is a sign...
