The Missing Course: Everything They Never Taught You About College Teaching by David Gooblar
This book is written as a “course” that will offer both new and experienced instructors practical tools and strategies to help students learn and lead to success. David Gooblar is Associate Director of the Center for the Advancement of Teaching at Temple University. His Chronicle of Higher Education column “Pedagogy Unbound” offers college teachers practical advice, informed by research, on how to create more effective student-centered classrooms. We will meet 4 times and discuss 2 chapters in each meeting. Please join us for all 4 sessions or if you are interested in one particular session, join us for that one. We will meet online via Zoom on Wednesdays 9:00 – 9:45a.m.
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Zoom Meeting ID: 973 6407 3374
Facilitated by Dr. Anne Braseby
September 1: Welcome week + pick up your book
September 15: Chapters 1-2
September 29: Chapters 3-4
October 13: Chapters 5-6
October 27: Chapters 7-8
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The Missing Course: Everything They Never Taught You about College Teaching (John Gooblar)
College is changing, but the way we train academics is not. Most professors are still trained to be researchers first and teachers a distant second, even as scholars are increasingly expected to excel in the classroom.
There has been a revolution in teaching and learning over the past generation, and we now have a whole new understanding of how the brain works and how students learn. But most academics have neither the time nor the resources to catch up to the latest research or train themselves to be excellent teachers. The Missing Course offers scholars at all levels a field guide to the state of the art in teaching and learning and is packed with invaluable insights to help students learn in any discipline.
Wary of the folk wisdom of the faculty lounge, David Gooblar builds his lessons on the newest findings and years of experience. From active-learning strategies to course design to getting students talking, The Missing Course walks you through the fundamentals of the student-centered classroom, one in which the measure of success is not how well you lecture but how much students learn. Along the way, readers will find ideas and tips they can use in their classrooms right away.