Description: Making Teaching and Learning Visible by Daniel Bernstein, Amy Nelson Burnett, Amy Goodburn, Paul Savory With higher educations refocus over the last three decades on bringing greater recognition and reward to good teaching, the idea of peer review has gained popularity. One tool for documenting and reflecting on the quality of teaching and student learning is a course portfolio. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description With higher educations refocus over the last three decades on bringing greater recognition and reward to good teaching, the idea of peer review has gained popularity. One tool for documenting and reflecting on the quality of teaching and student learning is a course portfolio. A course portfolio captures and makes visible the careful, difficult, and intentional scholarly work of planning and teaching a course. Illustrated through examples of course portfolios created during a four-year project on peer review of teaching, this book demonstrates how faculty can integrate well-designed peer review into their daily professional lives, thus improving their teaching by incorporating a means for assessment and collaboration and revealing the student learning that happens with effective teaching within an institutional reward systems. This book offers a model of peer review intended to help faculty document, assess, reflect on, and improve teaching and student learning through the use of a course portfolio. It features a rich collection of materials—including four dozen exhibits to help assemble a portfolio, reviewers comments, and reflections drawn from more than 200 professors and portfolio authors in various disciplines and institutions—that faculty can use to develop their course portfolios to be used in their peer review of teaching. Back Cover A course portfolio captures and makes visible the careful, difficult, and intentional scholarly work of planning and teaching a course and is an invaluable tool for documenting and reflecting on the quantity and quality of student learning. Illustrated through examples of course portfolios created through a four-year project on peer review of teaching, this book demonstrates that well-designed peer review can be integrated into the daily professional lives of faculty, improve faculty teaching by providing a guiding context for formative assessment and collaboration, and make the learning that comes from effective teaching visible and accessible for review within institutional reward systems. Explicitly intended to help faculty conceptualize how their teaching and the student learning that results can be made visible, this book offers a model of peer review to document, assess, reflect on, and improve teaching and student learning through the use of a course portfolio. It provides a rationale for treating teaching as intellectual work, accompanied by a rich collection of materials—course portfolios, reviewers comments, and portfolio authors reflections drawn from more than 200 professors in various disciplines and institutions—that faculty can use to develop their own models for peer review of teaching. Flap A course portfolio captures and makes visible the careful, difficult, and intentional scholarly work of planning and teaching a course and is an invaluable tool for documenting and reflecting on the quantity and quality of student learning. Illustrated through examples of course portfolios created through a four-year project on peer review of teaching, this book demonstrates that well-designed peer review can be integrated into the daily professional lives of faculty, improve faculty teaching by providing a guiding context for formative assessment and collaboration, and make the learning that comes from effective teaching visible and accessible for review within institutional reward systems. Explicitly intended to help faculty conceptualize how their teaching and the student learning that results can be made visible, this book offers a model of peer review to document, assess, reflect on, and improve teaching and student learning through the use of a course portfolio. It provides a rationale for treating teaching as intellectual work, accompanied by a rich collection of materials--course portfolios, reviewers comments, and portfolio authors reflections drawn from more than 200 professors in various disciplines and institutions--that faculty can use to develop their own models for peer review of teaching. Author Biography DANIEL BERNSTEIN is professor of psychology and director of the Center for Teaching Excellence at the University of Kansas. His effort in establishing and formalizing faculty peer review began in 1994 with his attendance at a conference sponsored by the American Association for Higher Education. He teaches courses in the history of psychology, learning and motivation, and social psychology. His research work focuses on adult motivation and learning in children. In 1998, Dr. Bernstein was a fellow in the Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of teaching and learning; he was a charter member of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) Academy of Distinguished teachers; and in 2002 he received the Outstanding Teaching and Instructional Creative Award from UNL. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of California-San Diego in 1973, and he taught psychology at UNL before joining the faculty at Kansas in the summer of 2002. AMY NELSON BURNETT is professor of history at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL), She received her Ph.D. in early modern history from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1989. Since 2002, she has co-coordinated UNLs Peer review of Teaching Project. She is the author of Teaching the Reformation: Ministers and their Message in Basel, 1529-1629 (Oxford University Press, 2006) and The Yoke of Christ: Martin Bucer and Christian Discipline (Truman State University Press, 1994), as well as numerous articles and essays on the Protestant Reformation in South Germany and Switzerland. She is the recipient of a research fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and has taught at the University of Hannover in Germany. In 1999, she received a College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Teaching Award. AMY GOODBURN is associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and associate professor of English and womens studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL), where she teaches courses in writing, rhetoric, and literacy studies. Since 2001, she has co-coordinated UNLs Peer Review of Teaching Project. Her research focuses on ethnographic and teacher research, multicultural pedagogies, and curriculum development. Her recent edited, multicultural pedagogies, and curriculum development. Her recent edited collection is Composition, Pedagogy, and the Scholarship of Teaching (Boynton/Cook, 2002). Her contributions to teaching have been recognized by a College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Teaching Award, UNLs Scholarly Teaching Award, and induction into UNLs Academy of Distinguished Teachers. PAUL SAVORY is professor in the Department of Industrial and Management Systems Engineering at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL). He earned his Ph.D. from Arizona State University in 1993. His teaching and research interests include engineering education, discrete-event computer simulation, engineering management, statistics, and operations research. Since 2000, he has co-coordinated UNLs Peer review of Teaching Project. He has received numerous department, college, and university awards for his teaching effectiveness with the most recent being the 2004 Hollings Family master Teacher Award for the College of Engineering. In 2003, he was inducted into the UNL Academy of Distinguished teachers. Table of Contents About the Authors. Foreword. Preface. Acknowledgments. 1. Making Teaching and Learning Visible. 2. Capturing the Intellectual Work of Teaching: The Benchmark Portfolio. 3. The Benchmark Portfolio: Five Examples. 4. Inquiring Into Specific Aspects of Teaching: The Inquiry Portfolio. 5. Soliciting and Writing External reviews for course Portfolios. 6. Using Course Portfolios to Foster Campus Collaboration. 7. Creating a Campus Community for the Peer Review of Teaching. 8. Addressing Larger Issues in Peer Review. Long Description A course portfolio captures and makes visible the careful, difficult, and intentional scholarly work of planning and teaching a course and is an invaluable tool for documenting and reflecting on the quantity and quality of student learning. Illustrated through examples of course portfolios created through a four-year project on peer review of teaching, this book demonstrates that well-designed peer review can be integrated into the daily professional lives of faculty, improve faculty teaching by providing a guiding context for formative assessment and collaboration, and make the learning that comes from effective teaching visible and accessible for review within institutional reward systems. Explicitly intended to help faculty conceptualize how their teaching and the student learning that results can be made visible, this book offers a model of peer review to document, assess, reflect on, and improve teaching and student learning through the use of a course portfolio. It provides a rationale for treating teaching as intellectual work, accompanied by a rich collection of materials course portfolios, reviewers comments, and portfolio authors reflections drawn from more than 200 professors in various disciplines and institutions that faculty can use to develop their own models for peer review of teaching. Details ISBN1882982967 Author Paul Savory Short Title MAKING TEACHING & LEARNING VIS Language English ISBN-10 1882982967 ISBN-13 9781882982967 Media Book Format Hardcover Illustrations Yes Subtitle Course Portfolios and the Peer Review of Teaching Country of Publication United States Birth 1957 Series JB - Anker Edition 1st DOI 10.1604/9781882982967 Series Number 67 UK Release Date 2007-07-24 AU Release Date 2006-06-01 NZ Release Date 2006-06-01 Pages 256 Publisher John Wiley & Sons Inc Year 2007 Publication Date 2007-07-24 Imprint Jossey-Bass Inc.,U.S. Place of Publication New York DEWEY 371.102 Audience Professional & Vocational US Release Date 2007-07-24 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:126621030;
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Publication Name: Making Teaching and Learning Visible: Course Portfolios and the Peer Review of Teaching
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Author: Paul Savory, Daniel Bernstein, Amy Nelson Burnett, Amy Goodburn
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