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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.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Authors: Jarvis, Joy (Author), Clark, Karen (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: St. Albans : Critical Publishing, 2020.
Series:Critical practice in higher education.
Subjects:
College teaching.
Communication in higher education.
Communication dans l'enseignement supérieur.
College teaching
Communication in higher education
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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

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