Convergent Teaching : Tools to Spark Deeper Learning in College /

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"Amid the wide-ranging public debate about the future of higher education is a tension about the role of the faculty as instructors versus researchers and the role of teaching in the mission of a university. What is absent from that discourse is any clear understanding of what constitutes good...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Pallas, Aaron M. (Author), Neumann, Anna (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Education, Higher > Aims and objectives.
College teaching.
Enseignement superieur > Finalites > États-Unis.
Education, Higher > Aims and objectives > United States.
College teaching > United States.
United States.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • A roadmap
  • American ambivalence and college teaching
  • Convergent teaching
  • Targeting : carving out what's to be taught
  • Surfacing : unearthing students' prior knowledge for learning
  • Navigating : orchestrating subject-matter concepts and students' prior knowledge
  • Policies and practices
  • Campus-level supports for convergent teaching
  • Supporting convergent teaching beyond the campus.

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