Helping students learn in a learner-centered environment : a guide to facilitating learning in higher education

Doyle, Terry, 1951-

Book 2008

From the Publisher: 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...

Item Details & Discovery

Explore Topics & Themes:

College teaching

Student-centered learning

View technical details & catalog information

ISBN:

9781579222222

Edition:

First edition

Description:

xviii, 194 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-189) and index

Contents:

Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1: Optimizing students' learning
2: Why students resist learner-centered teaching
3: Creating relevance for a learner-centered practice
4: Putting students' learning into the context of current learning theory
5: Promoting independent learning
6: Communication skills for working with peers
7: Helping students take charge of their learning
8: When students teach one another
9: Presentations and performance assessments
10: Becoming lifelong learners
11: Helping students recognize what they know, don't know, and misunderstand
12: Student evaluations: themselves, others, and the teacher
Appendix A: Research report writing and reading assignments report writing
Appendix B: Problem-solving process
Appendix C: Feedback rubric
Appendix D: Sample rubrics
Appendix E: Student background questionnaire
Appendix F: Websites on learning how to give effective criticism
References
Index

LCCN:

2007038267

Control Number:

2767863

View in Classic Catalog