Putting It All Together

Creating and Scaling Exceptional Learning

Jeffery W. Galle, Jo K. Galle

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Year: 2023
• eBook ISBN: 9781475867978
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education Curricula

Thanks to learning science and to the creativity of teaching and learning professionals, we know much more about the ways students learn experientially and collaboratively. For our courses, teaching scholars have identified practices and pedagogies that engage students to collaborate and experience deeper learning. Ken Bain has called Super Courses the courses that possess opportunities for learning in the classroom, the lab, and into the world where experiential learning joins course content. The course practices and pedagogies so fundamental to deep learning should also be included in program design (both for academics and campus life) and even the curriculum itself.
Putting it all Together provides a frame that includes the pedagogies and practices and discussion of the larger contexts within which they can be applied. The book also offers more than thirty brief chapters of selected practices applied in individual contexts. The authors are faculty members, administrators, and staff professionals who have developed learning experiences for students. The rationale behind the book is simple: embedding the most powerful practices and pedagogies within courses, programs, and the curriculum calls for every professional at every institution to play a different but equally important role in improving student learning and student success.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Contents
• Foreword
• Preface
• Part I: Pedagogies of Engagement within Courses
• Chapter 1: Pedagogies of Engagement: “Teaching Moves” for Student Learning
• Chapter 2: Designing a “Cool Class” for All Modalities
• Chapter 3: Strategizing “Failure”: Found Texts, Inquiry, and Building New Mental Models
• Chapter 4: Using Growth Mindset to Facilitate Belonging in First Year Writing
• Chapter 5: How Focusing on Learning from Mistakes Facilitated Learning in Calculus Class
• Chapter 6: Won’t You Be My Neighbor?: A Learning Community Experiment
• Chapter 7: Small Teaching Strategy: Connecting through the Circle
• Chapter 8: What’s in a Name?
• Chapter 9: Using Engagement Activities to Spark Greater Openness to Learning
• Chapter 10: First Day Activity Prior to Orientation and Disbursement of Syllabus
• Chapter 11: How Small Teaching Creates a Big Impact!
• Chapter 12: An Evolution of Engaging Students: Learning Assistants in the Classroom
• Chapter 13: Using Evidence-Based Practices in Courses about Evidence
• Chapter 14: The Legal World Is Wider Than Students Think
• Chapter 15: Service-Learning for Social Justice in General Education Courses
• Chapter 16: Virtual Exchange Integration in Precalculus Course: Enhancing Collaboration and Learning
• Chapter 17: Writing in Mathematics (WIM)
• Chapter 18: Google Docs: A Tool for Engagement and Self-Explanation
• Chapter 19: Creating Cultures of Creative Critical Thinking and Self-Reflection in the College Arts Classroom
• Chapter 20: Understanding Friction: Using a Faculty Learning Community to Promote Student Success and Faculty Satisfaction
• Part II: Pedagogies of Engagement at the Program Level
• Chapter 21: Program Innovation with Student Learning Strategies
• Chapter 22: An Effective Institutional Data Communication Plan
• Chapter 23: Listening Without Speaking: Making the Need for Equity Real
• Chapter 24: Creating DEI Opportunities for Faculty
• Chapter 25: Establishment of Centers to Support Faculty and Students
• Chapter 26: Reinvigorating the First Year Experience Program at Savannah State University
• Chapter 27: The Undergraduate Research Symposium at South Georgia State College: History, Status, and Future
• Chapter 28: New Faculty Orientation: Developing Faculty in Academic Mindsets and More
• Chapter 29: Developing Expertise for Teaching through a Graduate Fellows Program
• Chapter 30: The New Faculty Academy of the Center for Teaching Excellence
• Chapter 31: Interprofessional Education Collaborative: A Pilot Project
• Part III: Pedagogies of Engagement and the Curriculum
• Chapter 32: Innovating the General Education Program, Programs of Study, and New Degrees
• Chapter 33: Putting It Together: GC Journeys
• Part IV: Putting It All Together
• Chapter 34: An Exaltation of Larks
• Bibliography
• About the Editors and Contributors