Conversations to change teaching /
An essential text for all academics highlighting the importance of staff having focused conversations about teaching, to build individual and team capacity and to bring about institutional change.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Autores principales: | , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
St. Albans :
Critical Publishing,
2020.
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Colección: | Critical practice in higher education.
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Temas: | |
Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Half-title
- Acknowledgments
- Title page
- Copyright information
- Contents
- Meet the authors and series editors
- Book summary
- Chapter 1 Why conversations to change teaching?
- Why this book?
- Why conversation?
- Why talk about teaching?
- Changing teaching through conversations
- Useful texts
- Chapter 2 Conversations around peer review
- A chance for talk within everyone's reach
- Preparation for conversation: the observed session
- The paperwork
- The conversation
- Principles
- Inquiry
- Reflection
- Criticality
- The conversational approach
- Useful texts
- Chapter 3 Developing collegial conversations
- Seek out one-to-one dialogue
- Why talk about teaching?
- What are we going to talk about?
- Exploring our lens on the topic
- Exploring other perspectives
- Planning for dialogue
- Developing critical friendship
- Project to introduce critical friendship pairs
- Co-planning and co-teaching
- Useful texts
- Chapter 4 Creating and sustaining group conversations
- Finding time to meet in groups
- What's so special about conversations in a group?
- How do we learn professionally?
- Challenges to creating conversation groups
- Creating a conversational culture: more than one kind of group
- Closed groups and open groups
- Leading the group
- Clarifying the purpose
- Creating the space for learning
- Modelling the approach
- Responding to what happens in the group
- Identifying value
- Fun and renewal
- Creative, purposeful individual practice
- Resources and dissemination
- Support for the teaching community
- Sustaining the learning
- Institutional leadership
- Using conversation for everyday business
- Useful texts
- Chapter 5 Conversations with students about teaching
- An essential perspective on teaching
- Student-staff collaborations in higher education
- Focus of student-staff conversation
- Staff learning
- Student learning
- Ways to build the dialogue
- Inquiry-based learning
- Partnership
- Student-staff groups
- Beginnings
- Organisation
- Process
- Value
- Sustainability
- Useful texts
- Chapter 6 Building reflective conversation in assessment of teaching
- Prepare for a positive exchange
- Promoting inquiry and critical reflection
- Conversations around assessed teaching observations
- A model for effective practice in assessment conversations
- Discover
- Deepen
- Do
- Conversations around teaching competency
- Professional recognition conversations
- Useful texts
- Chapter 7 Leading conversations to change teaching
- Talking at the heart of our teaching lives
- Staff leading conversations about teaching
- Leaders with formal teaching roles taking a conversational approach
- Institutional leadership
- Features of a flourishing learning organisation
- An embedded understanding of teaching as complex