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Thriving in Academia
"Veteran professors distill their decades of expertise into simple, practical advice for building rewarding careers as undergraduate instructors at teaching-focused institutions. They guide readers through the entire career trajectory: finding and applying to positions, developing essential knowledge and skills, seeking tenure and promotions, and continuing to thrive in the mid- to late-career stages. They describe how to develop core competencies in teaching, advising, service, and scholarship. Strategies for obtaining time, money, and mentorship are also provided"--
The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Canada: Institutional Impact
"The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) is a growing area in which post-secondary educators from any discipline investigate their teaching and their students' learning, sharing those results with others. The purpose of this volume of New Directions for Teaching and Learning is to provide examples and evidence of the ways in which post-secondary institutions in Canada have developed and sustained programs around the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning that impact the institutional pedagogical climate"--
The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning In and Across the Disciplines
The scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) began primarily as a discipline-based movement, committed to exploring the signature pedagogical and learning styles of each discipline within higher education, with little exchange across disciplines. As the field has developed, new questions have arisen concerning cross-disciplinary comparison and learning in multidisciplinary settings This volume by a stellar group of experts provides a state-of-the-field review of recent SoTL scholarship within a range of disciplines and offers a stimulating discussion of critical issues related to interdisciplinarity in teaching, learning, and SoTL research.
The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in and Across Disciplines
Provides a state-of-the-field review of recent SoTL scholarship
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Teaching Undergraduates
This practical guide is designed to help college teachers plan their undergraduate courses and deliver high-quality instruction. The book's theme is that teaching is a creative, decision-making, idea-testing enterprise whose purpose is to facilitate student learning in all of its facets. Its goal is to help instructors understand the multiple kinds of learning taking place in their courses so that they can select, devise, evaluate, and modify teaching techniques to improve their effectiveness. Based on research on human learning, memory, thinking, and problem solving, as well as studies of teaching and less-formal reports of teaching practices, the book offers concrete advice about all aspec...
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The Sphere of Attention
The phone call came mid-afternoon in February of 1996. The program chair for the annual meeting for the Southern Society of Philosophy and Psychology wanted to make sure he had the facts right. “This is somewhat unusual...” he began. “You’re a philosophy professor who wants to present to psychologists in the psychology portion of the meeting.” “That’s right.” “Well your paper was accepted for that part of the program but the others just wanted me to check and make sure that’s where you want to be presenting.” “That’s right.” Reassured, the professor wished me luck and said good-bye. In my session at the meeting, I was the last to present. As my time approached, th...
