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Direct linkBerumen, Freyca Calderon; Silva, Cecilia – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2014
In a context that is increasingly becoming more diverse, we consider it essential to promote activities to develop linguistic and cultural awareness among preservice teachers. This chapter is based on the narratives of college students who when enrolled in an English as a Second Language class participated in a project where they accompanied newly…
Descriptors: Refugees, Cultural Awareness, Preservice Teachers, College Students
Kelly, Karen – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2013
This chapter describes an assignment that immerses Millennial students in discipline-based politics and policy as a means of helping them meaningfully connect with content.
Descriptors: College Students, Assignments, Politics, Policy
Elavsky, C. Michael – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2013
This chapter provides strategies for harnessing the power of social media to better help Millennial students connect with course content.
Descriptors: College Students, Learner Engagement, Social Networks, Lecture Method
Hagopian, Kevin Jack – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2013
This chapter provides a structural architecture for reducing ego-based conflict in the college classroom.
Descriptors: College Students, Conflict Resolution
Knowlton, Dave S. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2013
If professors are to appropriately affirm Millennial students' egos, then those professors must understand the distinctions between ego entitlement and ego engagement.
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Students, Learner Engagement, Self Concept
Britton, Willoughby B.; Brown, Anne-Catharine; Kaplan, Christopher T.; Goldman, Roberta E.; DeLuca, Marie; Rojiani, Rahil; Reis, Harry; Xi, Mandy; Chou, Jonathan C.; McKenna, Faye; Hitchcock, Peter; Rocha, Tomas A.; Himmelfarb, Josh; Margolis, David M.; Niles, Halsey F.; Eckert, Allison M.; Frank, Tana – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2013
Contemplative practices, which engage the subjective or "first-person" perspective, are being incorporated into systems of higher education that have traditionally relied on didactic or "third-person" approaches (Dederer 2007; Kroll 2010; Repetti 2010; Roth 2006; Shapiro, Brown, and Astin 2011; Smith 2006; Zajonc 2006). The students who are…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Teaching Methods, Educational Change, Metacognition
Booth, Melanie – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2012
Faculty in higher education may find themselves reading student work or hearing students' voices in class or in online course discussion boards that reveal a lot of personal information, information that they think might be better kept private, information that may be concerning or even threatening. In their attempts to create richer learning…
Descriptors: Learning Activities, Ethics, Assignments, Online Courses
McEwan, Bree – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2012
This chapter explores the use of social media in the higher education classroom highlighting potential issues for student-faculty boundary management and providing suggestions for praxis. Social media has captured the attention of educators and provides exciting new ways to engage students in course material. However, instructors and students…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Student Relationship, Internet, Web 2.0 Technologies
Schwartz, Harriet L. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2012
Prior to working on this sourcebook, the author thinks that if asked, she would have responded that the essence of setting boundaries was in the moments "with" students--the moments when she clarifies her availability or make the split-second decision about whether to self-disclose or not. After working with the contributing authors for this book…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Students, Interaction, Self Disclosure (Individuals)
Booth, Melanie; Schwartz, Harriet L. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2012
Working with adult learners presents a unique set of interpersonal boundary questions. In this chapter, the authors discuss the characteristics of working with adult learners that have led them to explore questions about boundaries between them and their students. They then identify how they might define, set, maintain, adjust, and work close to…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Students, Teacher Student Relationship, Foreign Countries
Cuneo, Carl; Harnish, Del; Roy, Dale; Vajoczki, Susan – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2012
There are unique moments in curriculum development when an opportunity for a fresh start or a major turn in design fleetingly presents itself. These moments opened up in different locations across McMaster University at different times and eventually led to several quite different initiatives in inquiry-guided learning (IGL). Well-travelled…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Active Learning, Universities, College Instruction
Lee, Virginia S. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2012
Inquiry-guided learning (IGL) promotes the acquisition of new knowledge, abilities, and attitudes through students' increasingly independent investigation of questions, problems, and issues, for which there often is no single answer. IGL appeals to a range of institutions of higher education seeking variously to capitalize on the research…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Educational Research, Inquiry, Higher Education
Zrull, Mark C.; Rocheleau, Courtney A.; Smith, M. Corinne; Bergman, Shawn M. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2012
This article focuses on curriculum-based learning communities (LCs). In these LCs, manipulation of the curriculum is intentional and often innovative, with the overarching goals of developing meaningful connections among students, between students and faculty, and between students and their coursework. The variety of curriculum-based models…
Descriptors: College Students, Communities of Practice, Intellectual Disciplines, Curriculum Enrichment
Saville, Bryan K.; Lawrence, Natalie Kerr; Jakobsen, Krisztina V. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2012
There are many ways to construct classroom-based learning communities. Nevertheless, the emphasis is always on cooperative learning. In this article, the authors focus on three teaching methods--interteaching, team-based learning, and cooperative learning in large, lecture-based courses--that they have used successfully to create classroom-based…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Lecture Method, Communities of Practice, Classroom Environment
Hao, Richie Neil – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2011
Informed by Rosenberg's (2003) concept of nonviolent communication, the author's pedagogical perspective encourages educators to criticize institutional and classroom practices that ideologically place underserved students at disadvantaged positions. At the same time, this perspective urges teachers to be self-reflective of their actions through…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Altruism, Teaching Methods, Teacher Role
