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Learner-Centered Teaching Putting the Research on Learning into Practice

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ISBN-10: 1579227430

ISBN-13: 9781579227432

Edition: 2011

Authors: Terry Doyle, Todd D. Zakrajsek

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List price: $36.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication date: 10/17/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.660
Language: English

Terry Doyle is the Chief Instructor for Faculty Development and Coordinator of the New Faculty Transition Program for the Faculty Center for Teaching & Learning at Ferris State University. He has worked with faculty on 30 campuses across the country on how to develop a learner centered teaching practice and has spoken at over fifty national, international, and regional conferences on topics of teaching and learning over the past eight years. He is a regular featured presenter at Lilly conferences. He is a Professor of Reading and Learning Disabilities at Ferris State where he has taught for the past 30 years.

Todd D. Zakrajsek is an Associate Professor in theDepartment of Family Medicine at UNC-Chapel Hill, and Executive Director of theAcademy of Educators in the School of Medicine. Prior to his work in the Schoolof Medicine, Dr. Zakrajsek was the Executive Director of the Center for FacultyExcellence at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Before arriving at UNC, Dr. Zakrajsek was the InauguralDirector of the Faculty Center for Innovative Teaching at Central MichiganUniversity and the founding Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning atSouthern Oregon University, where he also taught in the psychology departmentas a tenured associate professor. Dr. Zakrajsek currently directs…    

Acknowledgments
Foreword
Introduction
Follow the Research
Getting Students to Do the Work
The Power of Authentic Learning
From Lecturer to Facilitator
Who Are Our Learners and How Do We Get to Know Them Better?
Sharing Control and Giving Choices
How Teachers Can Facilitate Student Discussions by Not Talking
Teaching to All the Senses
Patterns
A Major Element in Effective Teaching and Learning
Repetition and Elaboration
Is A Revolution Coming?
Movement, Exercise, and Learning
Getting Others to Embrace Learner-Centered Teaching
Appendix
References
Index