Center for Learning & Teaching

Combines the best research-based practices for learning-centered teaching with a teaching strategy that results in powerful learning experiences for students. Empowers teachers to creatively design courses that will result in significant learning for students.

This book helps college instructors across disciplines engage students in nurturing creativity and innovation for success beyond the classroom. The authors outline how creative exploration can extend students’ reflective capabilities in a purposeful way, help them understand their own potential and learning more clearly, and imbue students with the freedom to generate and explore new questions.

Distilling the research literature and translating the scientific approach into language relevant to a college or university teacher, this book introduces seven general principles of how students learn. The authors draw on research from many perspectives (cognitive, developmental, and social psychology; educational research; anthropology; demographics; organizational behavior) to identify key principles underlying learning, from the retrieval and use of information to what impacts motivation. Integrates theory with real-classroom examples in practice.

A proven program for enhancing students' thinking and comprehension abilities Visible Thinking is a research-based approach to teaching thinking, begun at Harvard's Project Zero, that develops students' thinking dispositions, while at the same time deepening their understanding of the topics they study.

A comprehensive resource that offers college teachers a dynamic model for engaging students. Includes over one hundred tips, strategies, and techniques that have been proven to help you motivate and connect with students in a wide variety of disciplines.

Highlights innovative pedagogy which will enhance the quality of the learning dynamic. Provides not only ideas but real case examples of how different teaching techniques can work with diverse groups of students. The latest technological advances are discussed as well as making the most of the more traditional techniques.

Easy-to-apply, scientifically-based approaches for engaging students in the classroom Cognitive scientist Dan Willingham focuses his acclaimed research on the biological and cognitive basis of learning. His book will help teachers improve their practice by explaining how they and their students think and learn.It reveals-the importance of story, emotion, memory, context, and routine in building knowledge and creating lasting learning experiences. Nine, easy-to-understand principles with clear applications for the classroom Includes surprising findings, such as that intelligence is malleable, and that you cannot develop "thinking skills" without facts.

Belonging - with peers, in the classroom, or on campus - is a crucial part of the college experience. It can affect a student's degree of academic achievement, or even whether they stay in school. Although much is known about the causes and impact of sense of belonging in students, little is known about how belonging differs based on students' social identities, such as race, gender, or sexual orientation, or the conditions they encounter on campus. College Students' Sense of Belonging addresses these student sub-populations and campus environments. It offers readers practical guidelines, underpinned by theory and research, for helping students belong and thrive.

Develop successful strategies for teaching undergraduates how to conduct basic research and write papers. Covers each step of the research process: how to construct good research assignments, establishing the research question, assessing the research process, information ethics and the protocols of research. Also how to use new modes and media to communicate research findings. The book fully explores current theories on pedagogy and provides practical demonstrations of how to reinforce critical thinking and set the groundwork for life-long learning.