Creating Learning Communities - A Practical Guide to Winning Support, Organizing for Change & Implementing Programs (Paper Only) by Robert J Shapiro
"One of the most powerful ideas in higher education today is transforming campuses into learning communities. At last, Shapiro and Levine have given us-faculty, students, and administrators-a handbook on how to accomplish this. It is one of those too rare and much-needed volumes on translating theory into practice by authors who have actually done it." -Arthur Levine, president, Teachers College, Columbia University "Shapiro and Levine convince us that learning communities address what we now know about how students learn inside and outside the classroom. Read this book for conceptual rationale, practical answers to implementation questions, and passionate voices that speak for a social contract among students, faculty members, and institutions, a contract enacted and assessed for the benefit of all." -Barbara L. Cambridge, director, Teaching Initiatives, American Association for Higher Education In recent years, learning communities-a curricular innovation that integrates different facets of the undergraduate experience to enhance and enrich learning-have become the most promising new strategy for promoting student success and satisfaction in college. Now campus professionals have a practical, insightful guide to the essentials of this timely and rewarding new program area, including how to design, fund, staff, manage, and integrate learning communities into different campuses. Drawing from their own experience as well as from experiences of campuses around the country, Nancy S. Shapiro and Jodi H. Levine present a pragmatic blueprint for creating a learning community that can be adapted to almost any campus culture-including specific guidance ranging from who should be placed on planning committees to samples of syllabi for interdisciplinary courses, sample clusters of classes, monthly activity calendars, lists of competencies and expected student outcomes, and other operational program models.-
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Where's the Learning in Service-learning?
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Mentor
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Discussion as a Way of Teaching
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Building Learning Communities in Cyberspace
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A Guide for Planning and Implementing Instruction for Adults
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Prioritizing Academic Programs and Services
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Restructuring Higher Education
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Designing and Assessing Courses and Curricula
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The Profession and Practice of Adult Education
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Seeking Excellence through Independence - Liberating Colleges & Universities from Excessive Regulation
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Dancing with the Devil
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How Do They Know They Know
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Student Services
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Women as Learners
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Creating Significant Learning Experiences
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The Design of Education
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Effective Grading
"..provides excellent practical advice that should be required reading..." (Planning for Higher Education, September 2002)
NANCY S. SHAPIRO is director of the K--16 Teaching--Learning Partnership in the Office of Academic Affairs, University System of Maryland. She was founding executive director of the College Park Scholars Program at the University of Maryland, College Park. JODI H. LEVINE is director of First--Year Programs at Temple University and teaches in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780787944629 |
| ISBN 10 | 0787944629 |
| Title | Creating Learning Communities - A Practical Guide to Winning Support, Organizing for Change & Implementing Programs (Paper Only) |
| Author | Robert J Shapiro |
| Series | Jossey-Bass Higher And Adult Education Ser |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | John Wiley & Sons Inc |
| Year published | 1999-09-24 |
| Number of pages | 240 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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