Thinking About Teaching and Learning: Developing Habits of Learning with First Year College and University Students
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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.
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Rated 5 starsInsightful guide to teaching college students
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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Rated 5 starsA Wealth of Good Advice in a Small Package
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...
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Rated 5 starsPractical, Honest, Thoughtful
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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