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Class Syllabus for MUS 5150 Alexander Technique for Musicians at the School of Music at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.
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      Alexander TechniqueSyllabus DesignCollege teaching
Social work educators have found a variety of experiential and creative methods to be valuable aids in teaching culturally sensitive social work practice. By utilizing experiential/creative methods as tools of self-reflection, faculty can... more
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Abstract: Art is a valuable learning tool, regardless of discipline, that is often neglected in the college classroom. This article describes an artistic group exercise that required students enrolled in a homicide class to illustrate... more
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      Teaching and LearningCollege teaching
As part of best practices for increasing faculty-student interaction, higher education institutions across the country require faculty members to hold office hours. Various studies have reported factors affecting student use of office... more
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      Student EngagementCollege teachingStudent SuccessUndergraduate Education
Transformative pedagogy encourages students to critically examine their assumptions, grapple with social issues, and engage in social action. The author extends literature in this area by describing ways faculty members who teach online... more
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This is a sample lesson plan created for a new and original class entitled Alternative Behavior Management Strategies for Highly Disruptive Classrooms which is a mock class I created for the graduate level course Curriculum Construction... more
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This handout provides recommended readings and links to videos and other resources and is intended for those who are new to a Relational Cultural Theory perspective on teaching.
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      Faculty DevelopmentLearning And Teaching In Higher EducationCollege teaching
The role of emotions in learning and teaching has largely been neglected in educational literature, particularly in higher education. Yet there are signs of increased interest in emotions in recent literature. This paper argues that... more
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Mentoring plays a crucial role in the academic, professional, and personal development of graduate students, both in the context of scholarly research and teaching. In this chapter, we discuss the role of mentoring in supporting the... more
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Throughout the years teachers have tried many different teaching techniques when it comes to poetry; however, not all of these techniques work. I have found using spoken word poetry in the form of online videos excites students. With... more
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      PoetrySpoken Word PoetryCollege teachingTeaching Poetry
Historically, universities have adopted a "sink or swim" approach with their hiring of art and design faculty. After years of professional experience, these new faculty enter classrooms without pedagogical training and are expected to... more
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Page 1. 50 COLLEGE TEACHING he ownership of personal computers dramatically increased in the United States over the past ten years, from 22.8 percent of the population in 1993 to 51 percent in 2000 (US Census Bureau 2001). ...
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The author argues that first-generation college students (FGS) have compounded challenges when they pursue graduate education. As a first-generation college student, he was not able to gather advice from family or his job supervisor, who... more
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陳鏗任(2009b)。打開潘朵拉的盒子:密西根大學教學研究中心互動劇場計畫。國立臺灣師範大學教學發展中心電子報,17,取自 http://140.122.48.234/epaper_data/epaper17/epaper17.html
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Students frequently experience difficulty in identifying the appropriate time value of money (TVM) technique to apply to a TVM problem. This paper offers a modification of a recently published TVM technique developed by in order to help... more
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Something done for a World Congress on teaching philosophy some years ago.  Got a few plaudits.  Short, in any case...
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      PhilosophyTeaching and LearningTeacher EducationPhilosophy of Education
This paper explores the treatment of science fiction in college classrooms past, present, and future.
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      English LiteratureLiteratureLiterary CanonScience Fiction
The present study examines anxiety in English undergraduate classes with regard to the type of situations that provoke anxiety during different stages of the learning process and the relationship of anxiety with learners' achievement.... more
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Cette thèse doctorale par articles témoigne des possibles des langues autochtones dans les pédagogies de la réconciliation dans l’enseignement supérieur. L’auteure, francophone et non autochtone, y propose une étude a/r/tographique des... more
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      Faculty Development'Decolonization' and the politics of settler state/Indigenous relationsReconciliationA/r/tography
The author explored 24 commonly used instructional strategies in student leadership development programming recently profiled in the leadership education literature. Through a national web-based survey, this study asked leadership... more
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      LeadershipLeadership EducationLeadership DevelopmentCollege teaching
Teachers have used many different techniques in efforts to augment engagement given the strong engagement-learning link. Teacher-student contact is one of the most effective tools for fostering engagement; however, some teachers find it... more
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      Computer Mediated CommunicationTeaching MethodsCollege teachingEducation Systems
Comparison studies have focused a great deal on the similarities and differences between online and face-to-face learning. However, there has been little research on how faculty think about and plan differently when teaching the same... more
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Much attention has focused on learning styles and their impact on the teaching and learning process; however, little has been done to systematically incorporate learning style theory into actual teaching, nor to systematically examine its... more
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      Teaching and LearningScholarship of Teaching and LearningHigher EducationFocus Groups
Although it is widely recognized that individuals learn in different ways, there is some disagreement on the paths learners take. Responding to Kolb's (1984) Experiential Learning Model, Jarvis proposed an Existential Learning Model to... more
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The Teaching for Understanding (epc) model represents a teaching-learning approach based on competencies and performance, associated with constructivist theories, and developed in the nineties at Harvard University. Although currently... more
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The Project for Active Teaching of History (PATH) is designed as a history education community collaborative to enhance the teaching and learning of American history. This paper will provide research findings, critical analysis, and... more
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Various pedagogical strategies promote the development of communication skills that enable graduates to leave their mark and make positive changes in society. This article focuses on instructional lessons learned from undergraduate... more
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      Scholarship of Teaching and LearningAdult EducationCommunity CollegesHigher Education
Evaluations of teaching effectiveness have taken many forms over the years, but none have been as persistent or commonplace as student ratings of instruction (SRI). SRIs have become a fundamental component of evaluating faculty... more
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      Scholarship of Teaching and LearningTeacher EducationHigher EducationHigher Education Teacher Development
We used 2 debates over the course of a semester to encourage upper level psychology students to engage in discussion about controversial issues.  The debates considered issues in Affirmative Action and sexual diversity.  Students... more
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To cite this article: Erin N. Winkler (2017): "Racism as a threshold concept: examining learning in a 'diversity requirement' course," Race Ethnicity and Education. To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.1080/13613324.2017.1294564
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A good teacher, in my opinion, is by turns playwright, actor, director, and audience-continually shifting roles in response to a continuously shifting class dynamic.
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The Americans with Disabilities Act requires that faculty in all colleges and universities make reasonable accommodations in their courses for students with disabilities. But who defines "reasonable" and what do these accommodations have... more
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This article explores the use of contemporary film in human service education. A theoretical rationale for the use of films is presented and principles for bridging the world of the classroom and the realities of practice are discussed.... more
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Researchers have pointed out that students learn effectively in a harmonic environment and by using teaching aids which match the students' learning style preferences (Li et al., 2008). The learning styles literature is having a... more
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This research aims to identify the extent to which university teacher’s work intersects with a cognitive-constructivist and comprehensive teaching approach and explore meaningful relationships between teaching approach expressed by the... more
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Various pedagogical strategies promote the development of communication skills that enable graduates to leave their mark and make positive changes in society. This article focuses on instructional lessons learned from undergraduate... more
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Traces the origin and development of public libraries in the Early National Period. The evolution and growth of the public library movement. Using the Lexington, KY public library as an example, this article was the first ever published... more
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Organizational commitment is perceived as an attitude of association to the organization by an employee, which leads to particular job-related behaviors such as work absenteeism, job satisfaction and turnover intensions. Turnover is the... more
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Tablet PCs have the potential to change the dynamics of classroom interaction through wireless communication coupled with pen-based computing technology that is suited for analyzing and solving engineering problems. This study focuses on... more
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Despite the popular belief that fun has a positive impact in learning contexts, empirical research on fun in the classroom has been limited. To extend research in this area, the goal of this study was to develop and validate a new scale... more
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Various pedagogical strategies promote the development of communication skills that enable graduates to leave their mark and make positive changes in society. This article focuses on instructional lessons learned from undergraduate... more
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The Ministry of Higher Education in the Sultanate of Oman initiated recently a restructuring program for the General Directorate Colleges of Education aiming to replace the existing six colleges with more applied and highly IT assisted... more
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The values of diversity and inclusion have been widely accepted within the field of higher education. While these values exist in the classroom, there has been little exploration of the experience and capacity for engagement in diversity... more
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      AnthropologyTeaching and LearningLearning and TeachingPedagogy
The values of diversity and inclusion have been widely accepted within the field of higher education. While these values exist in the classroom, there has been little exploration of the experience and capacity for engagement in diversity... more
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      Race and RacismMindfulnessYoga MeditationContemplative Pedagogy