Powerful learning communities : a guide to developing student, faculty, and professional learning communities to improve student success and organizational effectiveness /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lenning, Oscar T. (Autor)
Otros Autores: Tinto, Vincent (writer of the foreword.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Sterling, Va. : Stylus Pub., 2013.
Edición:First edition.
Temas:
Professional learning communities > United States.
College teachers > In-service training > United States.
Teacher-student relationships > United States.
Communautés d'apprentissage professionnelles > États-Unis.
EDUCATION > Higher.
College teachers > In-service training
Professional learning communities
Teacher-student relationships
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Foreword / Vincent Tinto
  • Introduction: Why write this book?
  • 1. The scope and types of LCs
  • 2. Preparing for powerful LCs
  • 3. Creating and implementing optimal face-to-face, virtual, and hybrid LCs
  • 4. Conceptual frameworks for creating powerful LCs
  • 5. Achieving optimal student success through powerful SLCs, PLCs, and LOs
  • 6. Creating legal and ethical LCs
  • 7. Assessment guidelines for different types of LCs
  • 8. Preventing and addressing potential problems
  • Appendices
  • Appendix A. Colleges and universities selected for the 100-institution survey
  • Appendix B. Compendium of key factors recommended in the research to build powerful LCs
  • Appendix C. Powerful LC planning form
  • Appendix D. Experiential evidence that face-to-face and virtual LCs depend on the same principles and techniques
  • Appendix E. 100-institution survey responses regarding what makes the institutions' SLCs unique or innovative and effective/powerful
  • Appendix F. Key laws and legal resources impacting LCs
  • References
  • About the authors
  • Index
  • Additional appendices
  • Appendix G.A brief history of LCs
  • Appendix H.A call for and evidence of educational change
  • Appendix I. Within-class LCs defined
  • Appendix J. More details about learning pertaining to delivery formats for SLCs
  • Appendix K. The role of conceptual frameworks in LCs
  • Appendix L. Website URLs pertaining to LCs for 100-institution survey colleges and universities
  • Appendix M. Examples of institutional LC support materials.

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