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Thinking About Teaching and Learning: Developing Habits of Learning with First Year College and University Students (Paperback)

by Robert Leamnson (Author) "On my office desk I keep a stash of jelly beans in a glass jar..." (more)
Key Phrases: nodal problem, teaching persona, referential writing, Jacques Barzun, William James, Page Smith (more...)

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"This well-written and easy-to-read book offers practical suggestions and insights into teaching first-year college students. Some academicians may disagree with the author's stance that part of teaching is getting students ready to learn. Teaching would be much easier if students arrived on the college campus with the learning skills necessary to cope with academic rigor, but that is not the reality experienced by many of us who have taught first-year students. While the author places the responsibility on the professor for providing activities that have the potential for facilitating learning (i.e., teaching), he places the burden for making mental changes (i.e., learning) on the student." -- AAHE Bulletin

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Here is a compelling read for every teacher in higher education who wants to refresh or reexamine his or her classroom practice.

Building on the insights offered by recent discoveries about the biological basis of learning, and on his own thought-provoking definitions of teaching, learning and education, the author proceeds to the practical details of instruction that teachers are most interested in--the things that make or break teaching.

Practical and thoughtful, and based on forty years of teaching, wide reading and much reflection, Robert Leamnson provides teachers with a map to develop their own teaching philosophy, and effective nuts-and-bolts advice.

His approach is particularly useful for those facing a cohort of first year students less prepared for college and university. He is concerned to develop in his students habits and skills that will equip them for a lifetime of learning.

He is especially alert to the psychology of students. He also understands, and has experienced, the typical frustration and exasperation teachers feel when students ingeniously elude their teachers’ loftiest goals and strategies. Most important, he has good advice about how to cope with the challenge.

This guide will appeal to college teachers in all disciplines.

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Paperback: 256 pages
Publisher: Stylus Publishing (March 1999)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1579220134
ISBN-13: 978-1579220136
Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 5.8 x 0.6 inches
Shipping Weight: 0.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)

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On my office desk I keep a stash of jelly beans in a glass jar. Read the first page

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nodal problem, teaching persona, referential writing, new college students, most freshmen, thinking about teaching

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Jacques Barzun, William James, Page Smith, Alexander Astin, Jane Healy

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This book cites 40 books:

Mastering the Techniques of Teaching by Joseph Lowman on 4 pages
Teaching As a Subversive Activity by Neil Postman on 4 pages
Endangered Minds by Jane M. Healy on page 42, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
Begin Here: The Forgotten Conditions of Teaching and Learning by Jacques Barzun in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
Writing To Learn by William Zinsser on page 120, and Back Matter

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Wealth of Good Advice in a Small Package, September 20, 2000

By	Ed Nuhfer (Camarillo, CA) - See all my reviews

Thinking About Teaching and Learning deserves a place on every professor's bookshelf. This author approaches college teaching from a basis that is usually ignored by other authors of resource books on college teaching, namely the basis of neuroscience and brain-based concepts about learning. Leamnson is particularly well qualified to produce such a book: his disciplinary training and research is as a biologist, and his experience in teaching spans several decades. Many aspects of instruction are covered, including practices and evaluation, but the consistent thread throughout is how the brain functions in learning. This approach is immensely valuable, because it focuses on the practical and leads the reader toward practices that have firm foundations in research.

When one realizes that learning, at the basic level of the brain, involves self-initiated brain changes, it becomes obvious that any teaching practice which fails to emphasize student responsibility is incomplete. When one realizes that new knowledge becomes a part of memory through synapses that are organized then stabilized by use, it reveals that good teaching practices are those that promote and accelerate brain change beyond what a student would likely be able to achieve on his or her own. Based on the concepts given in this book, it becomes obvious why "good practices" such as cooperative learning result in significant increases in learning: time spent in class employing many senses, formulating an understanding and communicating it to be reviewed and discussed by others has the potential to employ more synapses than will taking notes and memorizing words. Effective lessons that promote brain change just don't materialize out of thin air; these require informed planning and an investment of time and hard work by teachers. When "good teaching" is viewed as the practice of creating situations that maximize effective usage of students' brains, it is evident why trendy paradigms which emphasize the value of learning while de-emphasizing the value of teaching should be viewed with healthy suspicion.

The author conveys immense respect for both teachers and students and reveals a great awareness that faculty time and student opportunity for learning are assets too important to squander with practices that have no firm foundation. In so doing, the author confronts the meaning and utility of a number of progressive concepts such as passive vs. active learning or learning styles. In so doing, he will cause discomfort for those who are used to parroting popular terms or advocating for progressive practices without having them challenged or subjected to demands for evidence. Here the challenge arises from the very basis of how the brain operates.

This is no dry technical book nor is it a prescriptive reference that reduces teaching to employment of a few prescribed pedagogical techniques. Rather, it is an uplifting resource that admonishes the professor to practice in a holistic way: to learn how to communicate, how to appreciate differences among the student clientele, to love students and, above all, to THINK about the practice of teaching and learning. It is a pleasure to confront a book in faculty development which comes from a reflective passion for teaching, and yet remains firmly grounded in substance.

Thinking About Teaching and Learning, in a very concise and effective format, provides a reader with a central unifying framework through which to evaluate concepts and models that are rapidly being added to the literature on practice of higher education. The professor who first reads Dr. Leamnson's book and then examines practices suggested in the extraordinarily useful Tools for Teaching by Barbara Davis will find that the practices that have been proven to be particularly effective are those that are indeed obviated when understanding how learning occurs in the brain. The same end result will occur for those who make use of the extensive primary literature compilation found in Teaching and Learning in the College Classroom by Kenneth Feldman and Michael Paulsen.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Practical, Honest, Thoughtful, June 12, 2000

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Experience counts, and this is someone who has spent time in the classroom. I found it a concise, but not superficial, summary of one person's take on higher education teaching. This is not another person with a theory, but someone who integrates several approaches in an informed and practical manner. I'm thinking of sharing this book with some Instructional Technology professors. It is that good.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Insightful guide to teaching college students, November 7, 2004

By	Russell Merris (Hayward, CA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Leamnson delivers on his title for this marvelous book. Having clearly done a great deal of serious thinking about teaching and learning, he has taken the next step and compared his ideas and experiences with "the experts". The result is a deeply insightful masterpiece.

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