Learner-Centered Teaching: Five Key Changes to PracticeIn this much needed resource, Maryellen Weimer-one of the nation's most highly regarded authorities on effective college teaching-offers a comprehensive work on the topic of learner-centered teaching in the college and university classroom. As the author explains, learner-centered teaching focuses attention on what the student is learning, how the student is learning, the conditions under which the student is learning, whether the student is retaining and applying the learning, and how current learning positions the student for future learning. To help educators accomplish the goals of learner-centered teaching, this important book presents the meaning, practice, and ramifications of the learner-centered approach, and how this approach transforms the college classroom environment. Learner-Centered Teaching shows how to tie teaching and curriculum to the process and objectives of learning rather than to the content delivery alone. |
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Contents
Lessons on Learning | 1 |
What Changes When Teaching Is LearnerCentered? | 21 |
The Balance of Power | 23 |
The Function of Content | 46 |
The Role of the Teacher | 72 |
The Responsibility for Learning | 95 |
The Purpose and Processes of Evaluation | 119 |
Implementing the LearnerCentered Approach | 147 |
Taking a Developmental Approach | 167 |
Making LearnerCentered Teaching Work | 184 |
Syllabus and Learning Log | 203 |
Handouts That Develop Learning Skills | 213 |
Reading Lists | 224 |
| 233 | |
| 243 | |
Responding to Resistance | 149 |
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References to this book
Classrooms as Learning Communities: What's in it for Schools? Chris Watkins No preview available - 2005 |
Bibliographic information
| Title | Learner-Centered Teaching: Five Key Changes to Practice |
| Author | Maryellen Weimer |
| Publisher | John Wiley & Sons, 2008 |
| ISBN | 0470366419, 9780470366417 |
| Length | 288 pages |
| Subjects | › Education / General Education / Higher |
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