Assessing and Improving Your Teaching : Strategies and Rubrics for Faculty Growth and Student Learning

Phyllis Blumberg

ISBN 10: 1118275489 / ISBN 13: 9781118275481

Published by Wiley Okt 2013, 2013

About this Item

Neuware - In order to make appropriate changes to improve your teaching and your students' learning, first you need to know how you're teaching now. Figure it out for yourself and invigorate your teaching on your own terms!This practical evidence-based guide promotes excellence in teaching and improved student learning through self-reflection and self-assessment of one's teaching. Phyllis Blumberg starts by reviewing the current approaches to instructor evaluation and describes their inadequacies. She then presents a new model of assessing teaching that builds upon a broader base of evidence and sources of support. This new model leads to self-assessment rubrics, which are available for download, and the book will guide you in how to use them. The book includes case studies of completed critical reflection rubrics from a variety of disciplines, including the performing and visual arts and the hard sciences, to show how they can be used in different ways and how to explore the richness of the data you'll uncover.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Assessing and Improving Your Teaching : Strategies and Rubrics for Faculty Growth and Student Learning
• Publisher: Wiley Okt 2013
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1118275489
• ISBN 13: 9781118275481
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 280W x 216H x 19D millimeters 280 millimeters width by 216 millimeters height by 19 millimeters depth
• Weight: 891 grams

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Synopsis

In order to make appropriate changes to improve your teaching and your students’ learning, first you need to know how you’re teaching now. Figure it out for yourself and invigorate your teaching on your own terms!

This practical evidence-based guide promotes excellence in teaching and improved student learning through self-reflection and self-assessment of one’s teaching. Phyllis Blumberg starts by reviewing the current approaches to instructor evaluation and describes their inadequacies. She then presents a new model of assessing teaching that builds upon a broader base of evidence and sources of support. This new model leads to self-assessment rubrics, which are available for download, and the book will guide you in how to use them. The book includes case studies of completed critical reflection rubrics from a variety of disciplines, including the performing and visual arts and the hard sciences, to show how they can be used in different ways and how to explore the richness of the data you’ll uncover.

About the Author

Phyllis Blumberg is director of the Teaching and Learning Center at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia. She is the author of Developing Learner-Centered Teaching: A Practical Guide for Faculty from Jossey-Bass.