Promoting the Success of Individual Learners

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Promoting the Success of Individual Learners Teachers Applying Their Craft at the Undergraduate Level

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Jeffrey E. Porter, ed.

ISBN: 0-89789-840-0

ISBN-13: 978-0-89789-840-9

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256 pages

Praeger Publishers

Publication: 6/30/2002

List Price: $102.95 (UK Sterling Price: £71.95)

Availability: Print on demand

Media Type: Hardcover

Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4

Subjects:

Education » Higher Education
Education » Teacher Education

Description: In the words of K. Patricia Cross, how do undergraduate programs simultaneously serve all students, as well as each and every student? Responding to the challenge of realizing this educational ideal, this book explores guiding assumptions and instructional strategies for individualizing instruction to support and extend the learning of diverse students. Assumptions and strategies are provided by experienced teachers from undergraduate institutions throughout the country, representing eight discipline areas. Discipline areas include literature, composition, mathematics, chemistry, physics, educational psychology, accounting, and an interdisciplinary freshman year course.

Chapters by contributing teachers are framed by four introductory chapters that establish the meaning of individualizing instruction, the nature of classroom learning, and provide a framework and set of general guidelines for individualizing instruction. Individualizing instruction is positioned at the intersection of two main premises: Talent Development as the most appropriate model of excellence for undergraduate education; and the reality of individual differences among undergraduate students, beyond demographic categories and learning-style taxonomies. Accepting these two premises, efforts by undergraduate teachers to work with students to create effective alternative learning/teaching paths leading to common curricular outcomes and standards becomes a critical factor in moving towards educational excellence.

Table of Contents:

Preface
Introduction
Developing Talent Through Individualizing Instruction by Jeffrey E. Porter
Learning and Individualizing Instruction by Jeffrey E. Porter
Individualizing Instruction: A Framework by Jeffrey E. Porter
Individualizing Instruction: Guidelines by Jeffrey E. Porter
English Curricula
Whitman Among the Engineers: Teaching Poetry at a Technological Insitution by Anne C. Coon
The Vocation of a Writing Coach: Teaching Composition and Creative Writing to Individual Learners by Bunny Paine-Clemes
Math and Science Curricula
The Role of Technology in Individualizing Instruction in Linear Algebra by Ananda Gunawardena
Helping Students Find Their Chemistry Voices by Keith Kester
Second Teaching: Small Groups as Mentors for Individuals in Physics Learning by Lisa Novemsky and Ronald Gautreau
Professional Preparation Curricula
Developing Individual Talent in Future Teachers Through Self-Regulated Learning by Randall Isaacson
The Use of Collaborative Learning to Individualize Instruction in Accounting by Carol Venable
Interdisciplinary Curricula
Einstein's Universe: Focusing on Student Learning in Interdisciplinary General Education by Judith Patton
Summary
Individualizing Instruction: Insights and Implications by Jeffrey E. Porter
Index

About the Author: JEFFREY E. PORTER is Associate Professor at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, a college of the Rochester Institute of Technology, where he has held a variety of teaching and administrative posts.

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