Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Inside the Undergraduate Teaching Experience: The University of Washington's Growth in Faculty Teaching Study; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Gifts; College Teaching Realities; Purpose of the Study and Key Findings; Literatures; Our Paths; Organization; Chapter 2: How Was the Study Conducted?; Faculty Sample; Graduate Student Sample; Study Design; Generalizability and Usefulness; Chapter 3: What Courses Did Faculty Describe?; Key Findings: Disciplinary Practice, Content, and Critical Thinking; Class Size, TA Help, and Course Levels; Pedagogy.
  • Course RequirementsLearning beyond the Classroom; Summary: Courses; Chapter 4: What Changes Did Faculty Make to Their Courses?; Changes to Courses; Few Changes; Big Directions of Change; Are You Still Making Changes to Your Teaching?; Summary: Changes; Chapter 5: Why Did Faculty Make Changes to Their Courses?; Reasons for Changes Made to Specific Courses; End-of-interview Ratings of Sources of Change; Summary: Reasons and Sources for Change; Chapter 6: What Allowed Faculty to Teach from the Self?; The Importance of Changes in the Self; Moving Beyond the Graduate Student Experience.
  • Learning to Trust Their Own Authority over TimePermission to Make Mistakes; Knowing That They Know How to Teach; Paring Down, Opening Up, and Weaving In; Listening to Changes in the Self; Summary: Teaching from the Self; Chapter 7: What Did Faculty Say about Students?; Students as Learners; Students Today . . .; Praise for Students Today; Summary: Students and Other Learners; Chapter 8: What "Research" Methods Did Faculty Use?; Sources of Information on Teaching and Learning; Tracking the Effects of Change; Summary: Researching One's Own Teaching Effectiveness.
  • Chapter 9: Were There Differences Across Groups?Differences Based on Faculty Characteristics; Faculty of Color; Three Disciplines; Graduate Students and Faculty Members; Summary: Differences; Chapter 10: Learning in the Act of Teaching; Appendices; Appendix A: UW GIFTS Interview Questions for Faculty; Appendix B: Focus Group Questions for Graduate Students; Appendix C: Tables on Statistically Significant Differences; Notes; Bibliography; Index.