Making Learning-Centered Teaching Work

This is a substantially expanded andenhanced revision of Phyllis Blumberg's acclaimed and bestselling book, DevelopingLearner-Centered Teaching: A Practical Guide for Faculty (Jossey-Bass,2009).This easy to follow how-to-guideprovides faculty with both a thorough introduction to this evidence-basedapproach to teaching and practical guidance on how to progressively implementit to strengthen the impact of their teaching. It demonstrates how they canintegrate learning-centered teaching into their classroom practicewithout sacrificing content and rigor, and how to positively engage students inthe process by demonstrating its impact on their mastery and recall of keyconcepts and knowledge.An added outcome, given thatlearning-centered teaching is correlated with improved student learning, is theresulting assessment data that it provides faculty with the measures to meetthe increased demands by accreditors, legislators and society for evidence ofimproved teaching and learning outcomes. Phyllis Blumberg demonstrates how touse rubrics to not only satisfy outside requirements and accreditationself-studies but, more importantly, for faculty to use for the purposes ofself-improvement or their teaching portfolios. She provides examples of how the rubricscan be used to ascertain whether college-wide strategic plans for teachingexcellence are being met, for program review, and to determine theeffectiveness of faculty development efforts. The book includes the followingfeatures: Boxes with easy-to-implement and adaptable examples, covering applications across disciplines and course types Worksheets that foster easy implementation of concepts Rubrics for self- assessment and peer assessment of learning-centered teaching Detailed directions on how to use the rubrics as a teaching assessment tool for individuals, courses, and programs List of examples of use classified by discipline and type of coursePhyllis Blumberg offers MakingLearning Centered Teaching Course Design Institutes and workshops on this andother teaching and assessment topics. Half day to multiple day modules.For more information or questionscontact blumbergphyllis@gmail.com, or IntegrateEd.com