Terry Doyle

Helping Students Learn in a Learner-Centered Environment (eBook, PDF)

A Guide to Facilitating Learning in Higher Education

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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 toward, and unfamiliarity with, learner-centered classrooms, Terry Doyle explains that motivating students to engage with this practice first of all requires explaining its underlying rationale, and then providing guidance on how to learn in this environment. This book is about how to help students acquire the new skills and knowledge they need to take on unfamiliar roles and responsibilities. It is informed by the author's extensive experience in managing learner-centered classes, and by his consultation work with faculty.The first four chapters focus on the importance of imparting to students the evidence and underlying philosophy that is driving higher education to move from a teacher-centered to a learner-centered practice, and what this means for students in terms of having control over, and making important choices about, their learning. The final eight chapters focus on how to impart the skills that students need to learn or hone if they are to be effective learners in an environment that is new to them. The book covers such practices as learning on one's own; creating meaningful learning when collaborating with others; peer teaching; making presentations; developing life long learning skills; self and peer evaluation; and give meaningful feedback.This book provides a rich and informative answer to the fundamental question: how do I help my students adjust to a learner-centered practice?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000975161
• Artikelnr.: 68356288

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. John Tagg is Associate Professor of English at Palomar College in San Macros, California, and author of The Learning Paradigm College.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Acknowledgements
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.