Developing Learner-Centered Teaching offers a step-by-step plan for transforming any course from teacher-centered to the more engaging learner-centered model. Filled with self-assessments and worksheets that are based on each of the five practices identified in Maryellen Weimer's Learner-Centered Teaching, this groundbreaking book gives instructors, faculty developers, and instructional designers a practical and effective resource for putting the learner-centered model into action.

Developing Learner-Centered Teaching: A Practical Guide for Faculty

Education & Teaching

Blumberg, Phyllis

Higher & Continuing Education

Jossey-Bass Inc Pub

The Unwritten Curriculum: Things Learned But Not Taught in School

This highly readable volume highlights the kind of lasting impressions teachers can unwittingly have on their students. While teachers are primarily concerned with the formal curriculum, students tend to remember most those lessons learned from informal encounters with teachers, principals and other students, which form part of the ′unwritten curriculum′ of school life. The authors record the memorable experiences - some funny, some traumatic - of a group of people from college age to over 70. Their stories describe important lessons including those about caring, the abuse of authority and being treated unjustly.

Blumberg, Arthur

Schools & Teaching

Corwin

This highly readable volume highlights the kind of lasting impressions teachers can unwittingly have on their students. While teachers are primarily concerned with the formal curriculum, students tend to remember most those lessons learned from informal encounters with teachers, principals and other students, which form part of the ′unwritten curriculum′ of school life. The authors record the memorable experiences - some funny, some traumatic - of a group of people from college age to over 70. Their stories describe important lessons including those about caring, the abuse of authority and being treated unjustly.

In order to make appropriate changes to improve your teaching and your students’ learning, first you need to know how you’re teaching now. Figure it out for yourself and invigorate your teaching on your own terms! This practical evidence-based guide promotes excellence in teaching and improved student learning through self-reflection and self-assessment of one’s teaching. Phyllis Blumberg starts by reviewing the current approaches to instructor evaluation and describes their inadequacies. She then presents a new model of assessing teaching that builds upon a broader base of evidence and sources of support. This new model leads to self-assessment rubrics, which are available for download, and the book will guide you in how to use them. The book includes case studies of completed critical reflection rubrics from a variety of disciplines, including the performing and visual arts and the hard sciences, to show how they can be used in different ways and how to explore the richness of the data you’ll uncover.

Assessing and Improving Your Teaching: Strategies and Rubrics for Faculty Growth and Student Learning

Jossey-Bass

Making Learning-Centered Teaching Work: Practical Strategies for Implementation

This is a substantially expanded and enhanced revision of Phyllis Blumberg's acclaimed and bestselling book, Developing Learner-Centered Teaching: A Practical Guide for Faculty (Jossey-Bass, 2009). This easy to follow how-to-guide provides faculty with both a thorough introduction to this evidence-based approach to teaching and practical guidance on how to progressively implement it to strengthen the impact of their teaching. It demonstrates how they can integrate &nbsp;learning-centered teaching into their classroom practice without sacrificing content and rigor, and how to positively engage students in the process by demonstrating its impact on their mastery and recall of key concepts and knowledge. An added outcome, given that learning-centered teaching is correlated with improved student learning, is the resulting assessment data that it provides faculty with the measures to meet the increased demands by accreditors, legislators and society for evidence of improved teaching and learning outcomes. Phyllis Blumberg demonstrates how to use rubrics to not only satisfy outside requirements and accreditation self-studies but, more importantly, for faculty to use for the purposes of self-improvement or their teaching portfolios. She provides examples of how the rubrics can be used to ascertain whether college-wide strategic plans for teaching excellence are being met, for program review, and to determine the effectiveness of faculty development efforts. The book includes the following features: <ul> <li>Boxes with easy-to-implement and adaptable examples, covering applications across disciplines and course types</li> <li>Worksheets that foster easy implementation of concepts</li> <li>Rubrics for self- assessment and peer assessment of learning-centered teaching</li> <li>Detailed directions on how to use the rubrics as a teaching assessment tool for individuals, courses, and programs</li> <li>List of examples of use classified by discipline and type of course</li> </ul> Phyllis Blumberg offers Making Learning Centered Teaching Course Design Institutes and workshops on this and other teaching and assessment topics. Half day to multiple day modules. For more information or questions contact blumbergphyllis@gmail.com, or IntegrateEd.com

Business & Money

Job Hunting & Careers

Routledge

This is a substantially expanded and enhanced revision of Phyllis Blumberg’s acclaimed and bestselling book, Developing Learner-Centered Teaching: A Practical Guide for Faculty (Jossey-Bass, 2009). This easy to follow how-to-guide provides faculty with both a thorough introduction to this evidence-based approach to teaching and practical guidance on how to progressively implement it to strengthen the impact of their teaching. It demonstrates how they can integrate learning-centered teaching into their classroom practice without sacrificing content and rigor, and how to positively engage students in the process by demonstrating its impact on their mastery and recall of key concepts and knowledge. An added outcome, given that learning-centered teaching is correlated with improved student learning, is the resulting assessment data that it provides faculty with the measures to meet the increased demands by accreditors, legislators and society for evidence of improved teaching and learning outcomes. Phyllis Blumberg demonstrates how to use rubrics to not only satisfy outside requirements and accreditation self-studies but, more importantly, for faculty to use for the purposes of self-improvement or their teaching portfolios. She provides examples of how the rubrics can be used to ascertain whether college-wide strategic plans for teaching excellence are being met, for program review, and to determine the effectiveness of faculty development efforts. The book includes the following features: <ul>
<li>Boxes with easy-to-implement and adaptable examples, covering applications across disciplines and course types</li> <li>Worksheets that foster easy implementation of concepts</li> <li>Rubrics for self- assessment and peer assessment of learning-centered teaching</li> <li>Detailed directions on how to use the rubrics as a teaching assessment tool for individuals, courses, and programs</li> <li>List of examples of use classified by discipline and type of course</li> </ul>
Phyllis Blumberg offers Making Learning Centered Teaching Course Design Institutes and workshops on this and other teaching and assessment topics. Half day to multiple day modules. For more information or questions contact blumbergphyllis@gmail.com, or IntegrateEd.com

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Developing Learner-Centered Teaching: A Practical Guide for Faculty

The Unwritten Curriculum: Things Learned But Not Taught in School

The Unwritten Curriculum: Things Learned But Not Taught in School

Assessing and Improving Your Teaching: Strategies and Rubrics for Faculty Growth and Student Learning

Making Learning-Centered Teaching Work: Practical Strategies for Implementation

Making Learning-Centered Teaching Work: Practical Strategies for Implementation