| Inside the Undergraduate Teaching Experience: The University of Washington's Growth in Faculty Teaching Study Contributor(s): Beyer, Catharine Hoffman (Author), Taylor, Edward (Author), Gillmore, Gerald M. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1438446055 ISBN-13: 9781438446059 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $90.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Education | Higher - Education | Teaching Methods & Materials - General - Education | Professional Development |
| Dewey: 378.797 |
| LCCN: 2012017558 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.2" W x 9.2" (1.10 lbs) 268 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The image of college faculty members as abstracted, white-haired, tweed-jacketed professors, mumbling lectures from notes that were yellowed by twenty years of repeated use is still pervasive. In this view, college faculty care only about their research and have little connection to the students sitting passively in front of them. Inside the Undergraduate Teaching Experience directly challenges this view of today's college faculty and serves as a guide for graduate students and new faculty who seek ways--both personal and pedagogical--to become more effective teachers. Inside the Undergraduate Teaching Experience reports the results of the University of Washington's Growth in Faculty Teaching Study (UW GIFTS), which sought to find out whether or not faculty ever change what they do in the classroom, even when there is little external pressure for them to do so. Key findings in the study were that all courses that faculty members taught were deeply embedded in their academic disciplines, even freshman-level classes; that content and critical thinking as goals for learning could not be separated; that faculty members were making changes to their teaching continuously; that such changes were motivated by the faculty member's intentional assessment of the learning needs of her particular classes; and that most changes were aimed at helping students meet faculty members' goals for learning. |