Assessing and Improving Your Teaching (Paperback)

Phyllis Blumberg

ISBN 10: 1118275489 / ISBN 13: 9781118275481

Published by John Wiley & Sons Inc, New York, 2013

About this Item

Paperback. In order to make appropriate changes to improve your teaching and your students learning, first you need to know how youre 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 ones 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 youll uncover. This guide identifies many specific ways that instructors can improve their teaching to foster greater student learning. The author reviews the current approaches to assessing teaching and describes their inadequacies. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Assessing and Improving Your Teaching (Paperback)
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc, New York
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1118275489
• ISBN 13: 9781118275481
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: new

About this title

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.