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IDEAS: Integrated Disciplinary Education for Academic Scholarship: General Resources
Books
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Engaging Ideas by ISBN: 0470532904Publication Date: 2011-09-06Learn to design interest-provoking writing and critical thinking activities and incorporate them into your courses in a way that encourages inquiry, exploration, discussion, and debate, with Engaging Ideas, a practical nuts-and-bolts guide for teachers from any discipline.
Collaborative Learning Techniques by ISBN: 0787955183Publication Date: 2004-10-12Synthesizing the relevant research and good practice literature, the authors present detailed procedures for thirty collaborative learning techniques (CoLTs) and offer practical suggestions on a wide range of topics, including how to form groups, assign roles, build team spirit, solve problems, and evaluate and grade student participation.
Learner-Centered Teaching by ISBN: 1118119282Publication Date: 2013-02-26Learner-Centered Teaching shows how to tie teaching and curriculum to the process and objectives of learning rather than to the content delivery alone.
Student Engagement Techniques by ISBN: 047028191XPublication Date: 2009-11-02Student Engagement Techniques is a comprehensive resource that offers college teachers a dynamic model for engaging students and includes over one hundred tips, strategies, and techniques that have been proven to help teachers from a wide variety of disciplines and institutions motivate and connect with their students.
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Books @ NCC Library
Circulating books are arranged in the Library according to call number.
Those with call numbers A-N are on the 2nd floor.
Those with call numbers P-Z are on the 3rd floor.
Collaborative Learning by Call Number: LB1032 .C586 1994ISBN: 0787999989Publication Date: 1994-10-27This volume uses information about current developments in collaborative learning across the country to extend our understanding of its possibilities and offer guidance to faculty who wish to establish effective collaborative learning classrooms.
What the Best College Students Do by ISBN: 0674070380Publication Date: 2012-07-16The author of the best-selling What the Best College Teachers Do is back with humane, doable, and inspiring help for students who want to get the most out of their education. The first thing they should do? Think beyond the transcript. Use these four years to cultivate habits of thought that enable learning, growth, and adaptation throughout life.
Understanding by Design by Call Number: LB2806.15 .W54 2006ISBN: 0131950843Publication Date: 2005-07-14The authors have successfully put together a text that demonstrates what best practice in the design of learning looks like, enhancing for its audience their capability for creating more engaging and effective learning, whether the student is a third grader, a college freshman, or a faculty member.
Making Scientists by Call Number: Q181 .L67 2013 Regular LoanISBN: 0674052927Publication Date: 2013-03-05Light and Micari stress conceptual engagement with ideas, practical problem-solving, peer mentoring, and"perhaps most importantly "initiation into a culture of cooperation, where students are encouraged to channel their energy into collaborative learning rather than competition with classmates.
Conversations with Great Teachers by Call Number: LA2311 .S66 2011ISBN: 025322361XPublication Date: 2011-03-01Smoot's insightful questions elicit thought-provoking reflections about teaching as a calling and its aims, frustrations, and satisfactions.
Ebooks
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Team Teaching by Call Number: ebookISBN: 9781579224530Publication Date: 2011-10-01For those considering adopting team teaching, or interested in reviewing their own practice, this book offers an over-view of this pedagogy, its challenges and rewards, and a rich range of examples in which teachers present and reflect upon their approaches.
Collaborative Learning: Methodology, Types of Interactions and Techniques by ISBN: 9781608760763Publication Date: 2009-10-01This new book gathers the latest research from around the globe in the study of collaborative learning and its application in early childhood education, pedagogical reasoning, undergraduate studies and computer research.
Transforming Literacy by ISBN: 9780857246288Publication Date: 2011-05-23This book is interdisciplinary in focus and centers on enlarging teachers' understanding of how reading and writing can change lives and how the language arts can contribute significantly to and change educational processes in the twenty-first century.
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