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Transforming the Humanities Classroom for the 21st Century: Using Course Redesign to Enhance Student Success

Kelly McMichael

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Description:Are you teaching to 21st century students? Many educators encountering the students of today feel frustrated. Pedagogical techniques that worked for a dozen years are no longer effective. Teachers complain about short attention spans or unwillingness to read long novels like Moby Dick, or for that matter, to read multiple short novels. Are attention spans shorter than they used to be? Are students uninterested in learning? No. Students are very interested in learning, just not in learning through the old methods. Students born between roughly 1982 and 2000 have never known a world without personal computers and the Internet and are comfortable with and are a product of that technology. They are confident, self-assured, optimistic, ambitious, and success- and goal-oriented. Twenty-first century students exhibit a collaborative team mentality and are strongly oriented toward their peers. Therefore, they prefer working and learning situations that depend on collaboration and group or team effort and evaluation. Old education methods no longer fit. In the early 1900s, most states required children to attend elementary schools, promising to offer every American a basic standard of learning in the areas of math, reading, and civic awareness. Subjects were taught through a system of lecture and rote memorization, and these methods were used from the elementary through university classroom. While rote memorization may have adequately prepared a labor force for the factory floor, it cannot produce the kinds of workers needed in the 21st century. We need students to be prepared for life-long learning in a changing world. To achieve this goal, we have to examine our current assumptions about teaching and redirect our effort away from ourselves as instructors and refocus it on our students. What or how we teach is no longer our primary concern. What and how students learn has become paramount. The course redesign presented in Transforming the Humanities Classroom for the 21st Century grows out of the constructivist, epistemic tradition of the last century and is founded on the belief that student success is directly related to an education based on real-world, relevant, problem-based experiences taught through active learning pedagogies. In the 21st century classroom, classes meets certain basic conditions: student learning is the focus; content is actively learned; problem-solving is a priority; and collaboration is essential. Transforming the Humanities Classroom for the 21st Century is structured so that either an individual or a team of instructors can move through the process of course redesign developed by the N-Gen Course Redesign Projectâ„¢. Each phase of the process corresponds with a chapter of the book, mimicking the method for instructors who wish to redesign their classes on their own or for faculty professional development staff that would like to lead a similar project on their own campuses.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Transforming the Humanities Classroom for the 21st Century: Using Course Redesign to Enhance Student Success. To get started finding Transforming the Humanities Classroom for the 21st Century: Using Course Redesign to Enhance Student Success, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Are you teaching to 21st century students? Many educators encountering the students of today feel frustrated. Pedagogical techniques that worked for a dozen years are no longer effective. Teachers complain about short attention spans or unwillingness to read long novels like Moby Dick, or for that matter, to read multiple short novels. Are attention spans shorter than they used to be? Are students uninterested in learning? No. Students are very interested in learning, just not in learning through the old methods. Students born between roughly 1982 and 2000 have never known a world without personal computers and the Internet and are comfortable with and are a product of that technology. They are confident, self-assured, optimistic, ambitious, and success- and goal-oriented. Twenty-first century students exhibit a collaborative team mentality and are strongly oriented toward their peers. Therefore, they prefer working and learning situations that depend on collaboration and group or team effort and evaluation. Old education methods no longer fit. In the early 1900s, most states required children to attend elementary schools, promising to offer every American a basic standard of learning in the areas of math, reading, and civic awareness. Subjects were taught through a system of lecture and rote memorization, and these methods were used from the elementary through university classroom. While rote memorization may have adequately prepared a labor force for the factory floor, it cannot produce the kinds of workers needed in the 21st century. We need students to be prepared for life-long learning in a changing world. To achieve this goal, we have to examine our current assumptions about teaching and redirect our effort away from ourselves as instructors and refocus it on our students. What or how we teach is no longer our primary concern. What and how students learn has become paramount. The course redesign presented in Transforming the Humanities Classroom for the 21st Century grows out of the constructivist, epistemic tradition of the last century and is founded on the belief that student success is directly related to an education based on real-world, relevant, problem-based experiences taught through active learning pedagogies. In the 21st century classroom, classes meets certain basic conditions: student learning is the focus; content is actively learned; problem-solving is a priority; and collaboration is essential. Transforming the Humanities Classroom for the 21st Century is structured so that either an individual or a team of instructors can move through the process of course redesign developed by the N-Gen Course Redesign Projectâ„¢. Each phase of the process corresponds with a chapter of the book, mimicking the method for instructors who wish to redesign their classes on their own or for faculty professional development staff that would like to lead a similar project on their own campuses.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Transforming the Humanities Classroom for the 21st Century: Using Course Redesign to Enhance Student Success. To get started finding Transforming the Humanities Classroom for the 21st Century: Using Course Redesign to Enhance Student Success, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

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