Jeffrey Porter

Promoting the Success of Individual Learners

Teachers Applying Their Craft at the Undergraduate Level

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In the words of K. Patricia Cross, how do undergraduate programs simultaneously serve all students, as well as each and every student? Responding to the challenge of realizing this educational ideal, this book explores guiding assumptions and instructional strategies for individualizing instruction to support and extend the learning of diverse students. Assumptions and strategies are provided by experienced teachers from undergraduate institutions throughout the country, representing eight discipline areas. Discipline areas include literature, composition, mathematics, chemistry, physics, educational psychology, accounting, and an interdisciplinary freshman year course. Chapters by contributing teachers are framed by four introductory chapters that establish the meaning of individualizing instruction, the nature of classroom learning, and provide a framework and set of general guidelines for individualizing instruction. Individualizing instruction is positioned at the intersection of two main premises: Talent Development as the most appropriate model of excellence for undergraduate education; and the reality of individual differences among undergraduate students, beyond demographic categories and learning-style taxonomies. Accepting these two premises, efforts by undergraduate teachers to work with students to create effective alternative learning/teaching paths leading to common curricular outcomes and standards becomes a critical factor in moving towards educational excellence.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 551g
• ISBN-13: 9780897898409
• ISBN-10: 0897898400
• Artikelnr.: 21859324

Autorenporträt

Jeffrey Porter

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Introduction Developing Talent Through Individualizing Instruction
by Jeffrey E. Porter Learning and Individualizing Instruction by Jeffrey E.
Porter Individualizing Instruction: A Framework by Jeffrey E. Porter
Individualizing Instruction: Guidelines by Jeffrey E. Porter English
Curricula Whitman Among the Engineers: Teaching Poetry at a Technological
Insitution by Anne C. Coon The Vocation of a Writing Coach: Teaching
Composition and Creative Writing to Individual Learners by Bunny
Paine-Clemes Math and Science Curricula The Role of Technology in
Individualizing Instruction in Linear Algebra by Ananda Gunawardena Helping
Students Find Their Chemistry Voices by Keith Kester Second Teaching: Small
Groups as Mentors for Individuals in Physics Learning by Lisa Novemsky and
Ronald Gautreau Professional Preparation Curricula Developing Individual
Talent in Future Teachers Through Self-Regulated Learning by Randall
Isaacson The Use of Collaborative Learning to Individualize Instruction in
Accounting by Carol Venable Interdisciplinary Curricula Einstein's
Universe: Focusing on Student Learning in Interdisciplinary General
Education by Judith Patton Summary Individualizing Instruction: Insights
and Implications by Jeffrey E. Porter Index