Learning from Each Other: Refining the Practice of Teaching in Higher Education

✍ Scribed by Michele Lee Kozimor-King (editor); Jeffrey Chin (editor)

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 332
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Learning from Each Other includes 20 original chapters written by well-known experts in the field of teaching and learning. Conceived for both new and experienced faculty at community colleges, four-year institutions, and research-intensive universities, the volume also addresses the interests of faculty and graduate students in programs designed to prepare future faculty and campus individuals responsible for faculty professional development. With the aim of cultivating engagement amongst students and deepening their understanding of the content, topics covered in this edited volume include:

• employing the science of learning in a social science context
• understanding the effects of a flipped classroom on student success
• pedagogical techniques to create a community of inquiry in online learning environments
• the risks and rewards of co-teaching
• reaching and teaching "non-traditional" students
• facilitating learning and leadership in student team projects
• connecting students with the community through research
• issues of assessment, including backward design, developing and using rubrics, and defining and implementing the scholarship of teaching and learning

Learning from Each Other

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Introduction
PART I. Curricular Innovations
1. The Science of Learning in a Social Science Context
2. Pedagogical Techniques for Creating a Community of Inquiry in Online Learning Environments
3. Co-Teaching: Risks and Rewards
4. A Collaborative Affair: Connecting Students with the Community through Research
5. Strategies and Resources for Internationalizing the Curriculum
6. Flipping Out: Understanding the Effects of a General Education Flipped Classroom on Student Success
7. Reaching and Teaching “Nontraditional” Students in Community Colleges and Beyond
8. Addressing Learner Variability on Campus through Universal Design for Learning133
PART II. Classroom Techniques
9. Without Apology: Reclaiming the Lecture
10. Scribes in the Classroom: Effectively Using PowerPoint to Enhance the Classroom Experience
11. Discussion in the Social Science Classroom
12. Facilitating Learning and Leadership in Student Team Projects
13. Courting Controversy and Allowing for Awkward: Strategies for Teaching Difficult Topics
14. Becoming a Culturally Inclusive Educator
15. The Value of Games and Simulations in the Social Sciences
16. Putting the Student at the Center: Contemplative Practices as Classroom Pedagogy
PART III. Out-of-Class Situations
17. Student Reading Compliance and Learning in the Social Sciences
18. Cultivating Engagement and Deepening Understanding While Leaving the Textbook Behind
PART IV. Assessment
19. (Re-)Creating Your Course: Backward Design and Assessment
20. “Am I Grading Consistently and Effectively?”: Developing and Using Rubrics
21. Defining and Implementing the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Contributors
INDEX