Terry Doyle

Learner-Centered Teaching

Putting the Research on Learning into Practice

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book presents the research-based case that Learner Centered Teaching (LCT) offers the best means to optimize student learning in college, and offers examples and ideas for putting it into practice, as well the underlying rationale.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Stylus Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 322g
• ISBN-13: 9781579227432
• ISBN-10: 1579227430
• Artikelnr.: 33461894

Autorenporträt

Terry Doyle is an author, nationally recognized educational consultant and Professor Emeritus of Ferris State University where he taught for 38 years. From 1998 to 2009 he served as the Senior Instructor for Faculty Development.Terry has shared his work on ways to use neuroscience, biology, and cognitive science research to develop a learner centered approach to teaching and training with the U.S. military, police agencies, medical and veterinary colleges and some 400 universities and colleges around the world for the past 25 years. He also has given hundreds of keynote addresses at regional, national and international conferences around the world.He is the author or co-author of seven books dealing with the application of neuroscience findings about how the brain learns and how to teach and train in harmony with the brain. Terry is the CEO of Learner Centered Teaching Consultants and D&M Consultants-The New Science of Business. Todd D. Zakrajsek, PhD, is an associate professor in the Department of Family Medicine at UNC - Chapel Hill and President of the International Teaching Learning Cooperative (ITLC).Todd was a tenured associate professor of psychology and built faculty development efforts at three universities before joining UNC. At UNC he is an Associate Director of the Faculty Development Fellowship within the School of Medicine. Through his work with the ITLC, Todd directs five Lilly Conferences on Evidence-Based Teaching and Learning and also consults with a wide variety of campuses on topics related to teaching/learning, leadership, and scholarly activity.Todd has served on many educationally related boards and work groups, including The Journal of Excellence in College Teaching, International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, College Teaching, and Education in the Health Professions.He has consulted with organizations such as The American Council on Education (ACE), Lenovo Computer, Microsoft, and the Bill and Melinda Gates F

Inhaltsangabe

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS FOREWORD Todd Zakrajsek INTRODUCTION 1. FOLLOW THE RESEARCH
2. GETTING STUDENTS TO DO THE WORK 3. THE POWER OF AUTHENTIC LEARNING 4.
FROM LECTURER TO FACILITATOR 5. WHO ARE OUR LEARNERS AND HOW DO WE GET TO
KNOW THEM BETTER? 6. SHARING CONTROL AND GIVING CHOICES 7. HOW TEACHERS CAN
FACILITATE STUDENT DISCUSSIONS BY NOT TALKING 8. TEACHING TO ALL THE SENSES
9. PATTERNS A Major Element in Effective Teaching and Learning 10.
REPETITION AND ELABORATION 11. IS A REVOLUTION COMING? Movement, Exercise,
and Learning 12. GETTING OTHERS TO EMBRACE LEARNER-CENTERED TEACHING
APPENDIX REFERENCES INDEX