Ebook On Becoming An Innovative University Teacher Reflection In Action

Author : John Cowan
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2006-03-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780335224630

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EBOOK: On Becoming an Innovative University Teacher: Reflection in Action by John Cowan Pdf

"This innovative and readable book is not something to be cherry-picked for quick hints and tips. It is a work to be read and re-read and savoured for its humanity, sagacity, practicality and reflection upon the all-important relationships between teaching and learning and the teacher and the learner." British Journal of Educational Technology "...a delightful and unusual reflective journey...the whole book is driven by a cycle of questions, examples, strategies and generalizations from the examples. In all, it is the clearest example of practise-what-you-preach that I have seen." John Biggs, Honorary Professor of Psychology, University of Hong Kong “This is a unique book, written by a well-known figure in HE who has broad experience and a long track record as an exemplary and caring teacher…The book is unique because it is written in a very personal manner, with a sharing of the author’s varied experiences and great enthusiasm for the processes of teaching and communication.” Jenny Moon, Bournemouth Media Centre and Independent Consultant “[Cowan’s] innovative approach to the authorship of a well researched and practical book is worthy of particular mention…Practitioners that are keen to allow spaces for innovative approaches to professional development in learners will find this text readable and thought provoking.” Teaching in Higher Education On Becoming an Innovative University Teacher shows readers how to plan and run innovative activities to engage their students in effective reflective learning. The book uses an unusual and accessible method: each chapter begins by posing a question with which university and college teachers can be expected to identify; then answers the question by presenting a series of examples, thereafter the writer frankly airs his own second thoughts on what he has offered. In the second edition of this popular book, Cowan maintains his relaxed and readable style, and the book features revised coverage to make it even more accessible and useful. The examples have been updated throughout and a new chapter looks at innovation and reflection in the context of contemporary higher education. This is key reading for all university teachers, whether new or experienced, who want to revitalise their teaching.

Author : John Biggs,Catherine Tang
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780335242764

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EBOOK: Teaching for Quality Learning at University by John Biggs,Catherine Tang Pdf

"This book is an exceptional introduction to some difficult ideas. It is full of downright good advice for every academic who wants to do something practical to improve his or hers students’ learning." Paul Ramsden, Brisbane, Australia "Biggs and Tang present a unified view of university teaching that is both grounded in research and theory and replete with guidance for novice and expert instructors. The book will inspire, challenge, unsettle, and in places annoy and even infuriate its readers, but it will succeed in helping them think about how high quality teaching can contribute to high quality learning." John Kirby, Queens University, Ontario, Canada This best-selling book explains the concept of constructive alignment used in implementing outcomes-based education. Constructive alignment identifies the desired learning outcomes and helps teachers design the teaching and learning activities that will help students to achieve those outcomes, and to assess how well those outcomes have been achieved. Each chapter includes tasks that offer a 'how-to' manual to implement constructive alignment in your own teaching practices. This new edition draws on the authors' experience of consulting on the implementation of constructive alignment in Australia, Hong Kong, Ireland and Malaysia including a wider range of disciplines and teaching contexts. There is also a new section on the evaluation of constructive alignment, which is now used worldwide as a framework for good teaching and assessment, as it has been shown to: Assist university teachers who wish to improve the quality of their own teaching, their students' learning and their assessment of learning outcomes Aid staff developers in providing support for departments in line with institutional policies Provide a framework for administrators interested in quality assurance and enhancement of teaching across the whole university. The authors have also included useful web links to further material. Teaching for Quality Learning at University will be of particular interest to teachers, staff developers and administrators.

Author : Peter Knight,Mantz Yorke
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2003-10-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780335226054

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EBOOK: Assessment, Learning And Employability by Peter Knight,Mantz Yorke Pdf

What is assessed gets attention: what is not assessed does not. When higher education is expected to promote complex achievements in subject disciplines and in terms of 'employability', problems arise: how are such achievements to be assessed? In the first part of the book, it is argued that existing grading practices cannot cope with the expectations laid upon them, while the potential of formative assessment for the support of learning is not fully realised. The authors argue that improving the effectiveness of assessment depends on a well-grounded appreciation of what assessment is, and what may and may not be expected of it. The second part covers summative judgements for high-stakes purposes. Using established measurement theory, a view is developed of the conditions under which affordable, useful, valid and reliable summative judgements can be made. One conclusion is that many complex achievements resist high-stakes assessment, which directs attention to low-stakes, essentially formative, alternatives. Assessment for learning and employability demands more than module-level changes to assessment methods. The final part discusses how institutions need to respond in policy terms to the challenges that have been posed. The book concludes with a discussion of how institutions can respond in policy terms to the challenges that have been posed. Assessment, Learning and Employability has wide and practical relevance - to teachers, module and programme leaders, higher education managers and quality enhancement specialists.

Author : Bairbre Redmond
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351905923

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Reflection in Action by Bairbre Redmond Pdf

Newly available in paperback, this original and informative volume outlines a new, well-designed reflective teaching and learning model that can be used with single- or multi-disciplinary groups of students and professionals. It offers an overview of the origins of the different theories of reflection and explains how different levels of reflection can be understood and incorporated into everyday teaching and training. Outlining specific teaching and learning techniques to be used in training situations, it also includes examples of how these techniques have been successfully used with groups of professionals from health and social care areas. This edition features a substantive new preface, bringing the book up to date with recent developments in the field. It is a well-researched guide to both the theory and the practice of reflection, and it also offers those who teach and train professionals a clearly delineated reflective model for use in the classroom or professional training environment.

Author : Peter Knight
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2002-07-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780335232048

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EBOOK: Being A Teacher In Higher Education by Peter Knight Pdf

Being A Teacher in Higher Education draws extensively on research literatures to give detailed advice about the core business of teaching: instruction, learning activities, assessment, planning and getting good evaluations. It offers hundreds of practical suggestions in a collegial rather than didactic style. This is not, however, another book of tips or heroic success stories. For one thing Peter Knight appreciates the different circumstances that new, part-time and established teachers are in. For another, he insists that teaching well (and enjoying it) is as much about how teachers feel about themselves as it is about how many slick teaching techniques they can string together. He argues that it is important to develop a sense of oneself as a good teacher (particularly in increasingly difficult working conditions); and it is for this reason that the final part of this work is about career management and handling change. This is a book about doing teaching and being a teacher: about reducing the likelihood of burn-out and improving the chances of getting the psychic rewards that make teaching fulfilling. It is an optimistic book for teachers in universities, many of whom feel that opportunities for professional fulfilment are becoming frozen.

Author : Barbara Larrivee,James M. Cooper
Publisher : Wadsworth Publishing
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0618572856

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An Educator's Guide to Teacher Reflection by Barbara Larrivee,James M. Cooper Pdf

This guide explains the importance of developing the habit and skills of reflective practice in order to meet student needs and grow continuously as a professional teacher.

Author : Paul McIntosh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135281632

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Action Research and Reflective Practice by Paul McIntosh Pdf

Exploring the tension between the use of evidence-based practice, based upon the 'solidity' of research, and reflection with its subjectivity and personal perception, this book argues that reflection is research.

Author : Rachel Wlodarsky,Howard Walters
Publisher : Information Age Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 1623964709

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Reflection and the College Teacher by Rachel Wlodarsky,Howard Walters Pdf

A volume in Innovative Perspectives of Higher Education: Research, Theory and Practice Series Editor Kathleen P. King, University of South Florida Higher education is facing many challenges, not least of which is retaining excellent faculty and cultivating their continued professional growth. This book explicitly ties the literature to the practical concerns and recommendations related to applying the reflective process in a college setting. In this way, the theories and empirical findings of the most recent literatures are linked to practical recommendations. The reflective tools described in this book provide an important resource for facultys' reflective practice. Unlike other books on the topic, the model developed and presented in this book allows for the reflective process to validate faculty's previous actions or accomplishments and maintain these practices. In other words, the endpoint of reflective process supports self-satisfaction. Instead of a deficit model, the focus is development. In this comprehensive volume, readers discover the seminal and the recent research in reflective practice drawn from a wide range of sources, including the authors' recent research findings on college teachers' reflection. Altogether, Wlodarsky and Walters systematically address these critical questions: a. What is reflection? b. Of what practical use or benefit does reflection serve? c. How do college teachers model reflection in the workplace? d. What are the steps in the reflective process? e. How can the reflective process be harnessed for program improvement in the college setting and in individual faculty practices? Wlodarsky and Walters understand and address the real needs of college teachers today. They created not only a thorough academic book, but also a compelling, relevant read. Specifically, they designed the chapters to include scenarios-developed from interview transcripts with college teachers. These stories powerfully contextualize the types of problems and tensions which surround the professional work environment of a college campus and the roles of the college teacher.

Author : Janet Moyles,Linda Hargreaves,Roger Merry,Fred Paterson,Veronica Esarte-Sarries
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2003-04-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780335226573

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EBOOK: Interactive Teaching in the Primary School by Janet Moyles,Linda Hargreaves,Roger Merry,Fred Paterson,Veronica Esarte-Sarries Pdf

* What is 'interactive teaching' in primary classrooms? * What do primary teachers and children do to interact effectively? * Are there benefits in such interactions to both teaching and learning? A research partnership of tutors and teachers strives towards answers to these key questions. This book is the story of this intriguing and exciting research project. The authors examine the practical and theoretical aspects that are key to understanding and undertaking interactive teaching in primary classrooms. The project is unique in using its own interactive processes, 'Reflective Dialogues', to help teachers make sense of their own teaching. This process includes capturing and analysing classroom sessions on video; and cameos of these classroom interactions are discussed throughout the book. The research context is the Literacy Hour in Key Stages 1 and 2. This new title is key reading for academics, researchers, teacher educators, policymakers and primary school teachers.

Author : Christine O'Hanlon
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2003-10-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780335227327

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EBOOK: Educational Inclusion as Action Research by Christine O'Hanlon Pdf

“One of the most accessible features of the book is the incorporation of vignettes of real-life action research enquiries, and in some cases, drawing on the field notes an journals kept by the teachers themselves. There is much to welcome in this book… There is an engaging honesty of tone… an abiding sense of authenticity in the author’s voice; this is writing which comes out of long professional experience of teaching pupils with learning difficulties and challenging behaviour, and equal experience of facilitating action research enquiries in her practice as a teacher educator.” European Journal of Special Needs Education In its detailed elaboration of action research as a basis for teacher professional development this book locates inclusive practice in a discursive process that continually interprets its meaning while at the same time inevitably changes educational cultures. The book starts by linking government policy with social justice and inclusion issues and argues that inclusion is currently promoted via a democratic political process, which needs to be complemented at a professional level through the demonstration of democratic and inclusive procedures in the investigatory process itself. The text argues for: *action research as a means of implementing and evaluating inclusive practice in classrooms and schools *action research as an interpretive and discursive process *inclusion related to specific educational contexts *inclusion as responsive to change and improvement at any level This book is ideal for postgraduate students, teachers and educational professionals who need a basis for developing inclusive practice.

Author : Liz Keeley-Browne
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780335264377

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EBOOK: Achieving Your Award in Education and Training by Liz Keeley-Browne Pdf

This accessible book offers a step-by-step guide to teaching in the FE and Skills sector to support you in achieving your Education and Training award. It provides all the content you need for the Certificate qualification, so it covers all five mandatory core units of study plus one further optional unit - on action research - which will enable you to achieve the full Certificate qualification, since the mandatory core units are not sufficient on their own. Ideal for use as a self-study text, it helps you develop your practical teaching skills and work towards becoming a competent teacher, whether you are new to teaching or want to develop your teaching. In addition it offers tasks and reflective activities to support you in developing a portfolio for assessment towards the Certificate qualification. So, if you want to consolidate your study at a pace to fit with your busy schedule, this book is for you. Key features include: A structure which follows the essential module content for the Certificate qualification One optional module, in addition to the core practical teaching skill modules, which is required to achieve full certification A grid at the end of each chapter for you to check your learning against the learning outcomes identified for the Certificate course Tasks and activities designed to develop your skills gradually as you work through the text Support in developing your reflective practice skills With its comprehensive approach and coverage this is an ideal handbook for students looking to achieve the Level 4 Certificate in Education and Training.

Author : Graham Gibbs,Claire Andrew
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:541112881

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Learning by Doing by Graham Gibbs,Claire Andrew Pdf

Author : William Ayers,Therese M. Quinn,David Stovall
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 793 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135596149

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Handbook of Social Justice in Education by William Ayers,Therese M. Quinn,David Stovall Pdf

The Handbook of Social Justice in Education, a comprehensive and up-to-date review of the field, addresses, from multiple perspectives, education theory, research, and practice in historical and ideological context, with an emphasis on social movements for justice. Each of the nine sections explores a primary theme of social justice and education: Historical and Theoretical Perspectives International Perspectives on Social Justice in Education Race and Ethnicity, Language and Identity: Seeking Social Justice in Education Gender, Sexuality and Social Justice in Education Bodies, Disability and the Fight for Social Justice in Education Youth and Social Justice in Education Globalization: Local and World Issues in Education The Politics of Social Justice Meets Practice: Teacher Education and School Change Classrooms, Pedagogy, and Practicing Justice. Timely and essential, this is a must-have volume for researchers, professionals, and students across the fields of educational foundations, multicultural/diversity education, educational policy, and curriculum and instruction.

Author : Tammy S. Gregersen,Peter D. MacIntyre
Publisher : Springer
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783319517896

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Innovative Practices in Language Teacher Education by Tammy S. Gregersen,Peter D. MacIntyre Pdf

This volume addresses innovations in language teacher education, offering a diversity of personal/psychological perspectives and topics in the theory and/or practice in language teacher education. The text deals with innovations in teaching for learning, teacher autonomy, dynamic self-reflection, peace education, professionalism, action research, socio-emotional intelligence, embodiment, professional development, NeuroELT, and more. Organized in three sections, the chapters inspire readers to reflect upon what it means to grow as a teacher as they navigate the intra- to inter-personal continuum. The editors draw the main themes together and discuss them in light of an innovations framework developed by Rogers (including relative advantage, compatibility, complexity, trialability and observability) in order to express, in concrete terms, the ways in which each idea can be considered innovative. Throughout the anthology, the reader will find specific, novel ways in which to work towards good practice in language teacher education.

Author : F. A. J. Korthagen,Fred A. J. Korthagen,Younghee M. Kim,William L. Greene
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780415522489

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Teaching and Learning from Within by F. A. J. Korthagen,Fred A. J. Korthagen,Younghee M. Kim,William L. Greene Pdf

This book brings together theory, research, and practice on core reflection, an approach that focuses on people's strengths as the springboard for personal growth and links theory and practice by highlighting the experience of the person.