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Teaching and Learning in Religion and Theology
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Designing & Assessing Courses & Curricula: A Practical Guide
Diamond, Robert M.
Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA
1998
From the Publisher
Designing and Assessing Courses and Curricula reflects the best current knowledge and practice in course and curriculum design and connects this knowledge with the critical task of assessing and learning outcomes at both course and curricular levels. Tested and refined through long-term use and study, the change model presented in this book shows how to move from concept to actualization, from theory to practice.
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Charting Your Course: How to Prepare to Teach More Effectively
Pregent, Richard
Atwood Publishing, Madison, WI
2000
From the Publisher
Good teaching begins with good preparation. But many instructors and teaching assistants are unsure about how to plan their courses in order to teach more effectively.
Charting Your Course is a systematic approach to course planning that applies to all disciplines and course types. Prgent stresses analysis, planning, critical thinking, and careful evaluation and provides step-by-step examples of how actual new courses...
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Designing Courses for Higher Education
Toohey, Susan
Open University Press, Philadelphia, PA
1999
From the Publisher
Susan Toohey focuses not on teaching techniques but on the strategic decisions which must be made before a course begins. She provides realistic advice for university and college teachers on how to design more effective courses without underestimating the complexity of the task facing course developers. In particular, she examines fully the challenges involved in leading course design teams, getting agreement among teaching...
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Responsive Teaching: An Ecological Approach to Classroom Patterns of Culture, Language and Thought
Bowers, C.A. and Flinders, David J.
Teachers College Press, New York, NY
1990
From the Publisher
Responsive Teaching: An Ecological Approach to Classroom Patterns of Language, Culture, and Thought, the fourth title in this series, provides a conceptual basis for recognizing the classroom as an ecology of lingistic and cultural patterns that should be taken into account as part of the teacher's professional decision making. It argues that the orchestration of classroom behavior cannot be separated from the students primary...
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Greening the College Curriculum: A Guide to Environmental Teaching in the Liberal Arts
Collett, Jonathan, and Stephen Karakashian, eds.
Island Press, Washington, D.C.
1996
From the Publisher
Greening the College Curriculum provides the tools college and university faculty need to meet personal and institutional goals for integrating environmental issues into the curriculum. Leading educators from a wide range of fields, including anthropology, biology, economics, geography, history, literature, journalism, philosophy, political science, and religion, describe their experience introducing environmental issues into...
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"Challenges of the Introductory Course"
Dunham, Robert E., and Maryellen Gleason
in Rejuvenating Introductory Courses (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1984), 39-51
1984
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"So Much Content, So Little Time"
Svinicki, Marilla D.
Teaching Excellence 2, no. 8 (1990)
1990
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Cases and Course Design
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"Religion in Southern Culture: Classroom Notes"
Lippy, Charles
Journal of Southern Religion 5 (2002)
2002
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"What A Course Will Look Like After Multicultural Change"
Kitano, Margie K.
in Multicultural course transformation in higher education: A broader truth (Needham Heights, MA: Allyn & Bacon, 1997), 18-34
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"Doing Multiculturalism: Conceptualizing Curricular Change"
Rosenfelt, Deborah S.
in Handbook for Multicultural Infusion in Higher Education (New York: Allyn & Bacon, 1996), 35-55
1996
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Building and Sustaining Learning Communities: The Syracuse University Experience
Hurd, Sandra N. and Ruth Federman Stein
Anker Publishing, Bolton, MA
2004
From the Publisher
Learning communities are small groups of students who come together with faculty and student affairs professionals to engage in common learning experiences. In Building and Sustaining Learning Communities, the authors, along with many of their colleagues, describe the rationale for learning communities, particularly in a large university; the process for setting them up; and reflections on these unique environments. After reading...
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Designing Courses and Teaching on the Web: A "How-To" Guide to Proven, Innovative Strategies
Fisher, Mercedes
ScarecrowEducation, Lanham, MD
2003
From the Publisher
Here is a practical, how to book written for new online web instructors. It will also be helpful to course designers, trainers, administrators, or anyone interested in the potential of online learning and training by providing an excellent introduction to the online education arena. The format provided will easily fit into any course design while utilizing a variety of current resources and tools.
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Disciplines as Frameworks for Student Learning: Teaching the Practice of the Disciplines
Riordan, Tim and James Roth, editors
Stylus, Sterling, VA
2005
From the Publisher
Creating ways to make a discipline come alive for those who are not experts - even for students who may not take more than one or two courses in the disciplines they study - requires rigorous thought about what really matters in a field and how to engage students in its practice.
Faculty from Alverno College representing a range of liberal arts disciplines - chemistry, economics, history, literature, mathematics and...
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Teaching With Site Visits
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Reforming the Higher Education Curriculum: Internationalizing the Campus
Mestenhauser, Josef A. and Brenda J. Ellingboe, editors
Oryx Press, Phoenix, AZ
1998
From the Publisher
With the concept of a global village now a reality, institutions of higher learning must broaden their thinking beyond American social, cultural, and economic borders. Reforming the Higher Education Curriculum is a collection of papers that explores how a college or university can plan and implement a systemwide program for internationalizing the curriculum throughout the entire university. The contributors argue that a thorough...
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Religion and Film
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Teaching Religion and the Spotlight on Teaching Syllabus Development Project
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Transforming the Curriculum for Multicultural Understandings: A Practitioner's Handbook
Boyer, James B. and H. Prentice Baptiste, Jr.
Caddo Gap Press, San Francisco, CA
1996
From the Publisher
This book's basic premise is that present demographics suggest concepts of inclusion and cultural reflection are essential to any academic endeavor. Teachers and future teachers need to be aware of the emergence of multicultural education and how that plays out in the classroom. The volume presents a historical overview of the concept and stresses the need for greater awareness.
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"Today's Syllabus Fulfills Three Roles"
Parkes, J., and M. B. Harris
The Teaching Professor 17, no. 1 (2003): 5
2003
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Creating Significant Learning Experiences: An Integrated Approach to Designing College Courses
Fink, L. Dee
Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA
2003
From the Publisher
Offering methods for improving teaching practices in higher education, Fink challenges educators to shift from the content-oriented "information dump" approach toward one that is learning-centered. Fink outlines his taxonomy of significant learning and shows how to combine new and traditional techniques to create powerful learning experiences.
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"'Learning Styles' and Instructional Design"
Sadler-Smith, Eugene
Innovations in Education and Training International 33, no. 4 (1996): 185-193
1996
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A Post-Modern Perspective on Curriculum
Doll, William E., Jr.
Teachers College Press, New York, NY
1993
From the Publisher
Doll offers a post-modernist, process-oriented vision of teaching and curriculum built from the base of a constructivist and experiential epistemology where we engage ourselves in a conversation with each other in the context of our collective history and seek meaning through alternative interpretations and transformations. In this book he ably demonstrates the power of historical reflection to illuminate our present position...
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"Teaching Religion and American Film"
various
Spotlight on Teaching 18, no. 3 (2003): 5
2003
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Interdisciplinary Studies Today
Klein, Julie Thompson and William G. Doty, Editors
Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA
1994
From the Publisher
This volume of New Directions for Teaching and Learning is a practical compendium of advice and information on the development, administration, and assessment of interdisciplinary studies programs and schools. A bibliographic orientation to hands-on access, including electronic retrieval of information, precedes chapters reviewing the design of interdisciplinary courses, and how the role of administrators in interdisciplinary...
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The Course Syllabus: A Learning-Centered Approach, Second Edition
O'Brien, Grunert, Judith, Barbara J. Millis, and Margaret W. Cohen
Jossey-Bass, San Francisco
2008
From the Publisher
When it was first published in 1997, The Course Syllabus became the gold standard reference for both new and experienced college faculty. Like the first edition, this book is based on a learner-centered approach. Because faculty members are now deeply committed to engaging students in learning, the syllabus has evolved into a useful, if lengthy, document. Today's syllabus provides details about course objectives, requirements...
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Meaningful Course Revision: Enhancing Academic Engagement Using Student Learning Data
Wehlburg, Catherine M.
Anker Publishing Company, Inc., Bolton, MA
2006
From the Publisher
Faculty are often motivated to change the activities and design of their courses for reasons not based on data. In Meaningful Course Revision, the author seeks instead to illustrate how the appropriate use of multiple, direct measures of student-learning outcomes can lead to enhanced course development and revision. While providing an outline of methods for creating significant learning experiences, the book also includes practical...
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Conquering the Content: A Step-by-Step Guide to Online Course Design
Smith, Robin M.
Jossey-Bass, San Francisco
2008
From the Publisher
Conquering the Content is a practical resource for faculty who tackle overwhelming amounts of course content that must be tailored for Web-based learning. This important guide offers step-by-step instructions for creating online learning experiences that are manageable, effective, and of the highest quality.
Written by Robin M. Smith, an expert in the field on online learning, Conquering the Content provides guidance...
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Designing Learning from Module Outline to Effective Teaching
Butcher, Christopher, Clara Davies and Melissa Highton
Routledge, New York, NY
2006
From the Publisher
New lecturers, part-time teachers and graduate teaching assistants are often required to both deliver an existing course and design their own teaching based on a module description. But where do they start?
Underpinned by sound theory, Designing Learning is a practical guide that aims to help busy professionals design, develop and deliver a course, from module outcome outline to effective teaching. Illustrated with useful...
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Developing Learner-Centered Teaching: A Practical Guide for Faculty
Blumberg, Phyllis
Jossey-Bass, A Wiley Imprint, San Francisco
2009
From the Publisher
Developing Learner-Centered Teaching offers a step-by-step plan for transforming any course from teacher-centered to the more engaging learner-centered model. Filled with self-assessments and worksheets that are based on each of the five practices identified in Maryellen Weimers Learner-Centered Teaching, this groundbreaking book gives instructors, faculty developers, and instructional designers a practical and effective resource...
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On Teaching and Learning: Putting the Principles and Practices of Dialogue Education into Action
Vella, Jane
Jossey-Bass, San Francisco
2008
From the Publisher
On Teaching and Learning takes the ideas explored in renowned educator Jane Vella s best-selling book Learning to Listen, Learning to Teach to the next level and explores how dialogue education has been applied in educational settings around the world. Throughout the book, she shows how to put the principles and practices of dialogue education into action and uses illustrative stories and examples from her extensive travels....
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Designing and Assessing Courses and Curricula: A Practical Guide, Third Edition
Diamond, Robert M.
Jossey-Bass, San Francisco
2008
From the Publisher
Designing and Assessing Courses and Curricula reflects the most current knowledge and practice in course and curriculum design and connects this knowledge with the critical task of assessing learning outcomes at both course and curricular levels. This thoroughly revised and expanded third edition of the best-selling book positions course design as a tool for educational change and contains a wealth of new material including...
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Designing Your Course: A Basic Guide to Designing and Delivering an Effective Course
Galindo, Israel
Israel Galindo
2008
From the Publisher
This guide will help you desing your course in the Children and Family Ministry and the Youth and Student Ministry M.Div. concentrations at Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond. Using two proven educational frameworks for course design you will be able to create a powerful course that will facilitate a meaningful learning experience for your students, and a rewarding teaching adventure for you.
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How Scholars Trumped Teachers: Change without Reform in University Curriculum, Teaching, and Research, 1890-1990
Cuban, Larry
Teachers College Press, New York, NY
1999
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