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Scholarship March 29, 2017

Turning Professors into Teachers: A New Approach to Faculty Development and Student Learning

The Wabash Center

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Author
Katz, Joseph and Mildred Henry
Publisher
Oryx Press, Phoenix, AZ
ISBN
29172217
Table of Contents
Foreword
Conditions of a New Pedagogy for Undergraduate Learning
An inquiry-oriented approach to faculty development and student learning
Thinking styles in the disciplines and in student learning
Promoting student learning
Three professors report about observing their teaching and their students' learning
Tools for understanding students - the Omnibus personality inventory
Tools for understanding students - the interview
Interviews about teaching and student learning with a biologist and a political scientist
Reenvisioning undergraduate teaching
References
Index
A really thoughtful and skillful examination (based on two research projects conducted between 1978 and 1987 which involved fifteen institutions) of the ways in which faculty and students think and learn, offering a concept of undergraduate teaching as a lifelong art that involves the continuous interaction of professors and students. (From the Publisher)