A Concise Guide to Teaching With Desirable Difficulties

Diane Cummings Persellin, Mary Blythe Daniels

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN: 9781620365014
• eBook ISBN: 9781000976885
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Higher Education

This concise guidebook on desirable difficulties is designed to be a resource for academics who are interested in engaging students according to the findings of peer-reviewed literature and best practices but do not have the time to immerse themselves in the scholarship of teaching and learning.Intentionally brief, the book is intended to: summarize recent research on five aspects of desirable difficulties; provide applications to the college classroom based on this research; include special sections about teaching strategies that are based on best practices; and offer annotated bibliographies and important citations for faculty who want to pursue additional study. The book will provide a foundation for instructors to teach using evidence-based strategies that will strengthen learning and retention in their classrooms.In addition to chapters on the desirable difficulties, the book also includes chapters on teaching first-year and at-risk students to embrace this approach, on negotiating student resistance, and on using this approach in teaching online.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Foreword
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Why Make Learning Difficult? An Overview
• 1 Teaching A Growth Mind – Set
• 2 Retrieval Practice And Testing: A Key to Learning and Retention
• 3 Mix It up to Make Learning Last: The Importance of Spacing and Interleaving
• 4 Don't Help The Learner So Much: Teach Students to Learn From Setbacks
• 5 Teaching First-Year And At-Risk Students To Embrace Desirable Difficulties
• 6 Negotiating Student Resistance
• Appendix Workshop O N Teaching Online Courses with Desirable Difficulties
• Bibliography
• About the Authors
• Index