Full Description
This book guides readers to transition their teaching to learning-centred practices. Based on Weimer's (2002, 2013) and Blumberg's (2009, 2019) framework, the authors describe their faculty learning community-based journey through the adaptation, implementation, and assessment of a series of practical learning-centred teaching strategies.
While furnishing a critical discussion of challenges, directions, and development of learning-centred pedagogy as applied to an Asian context, this book provides suggested pathways for educators around the world to embark on their own journey toward learning-centred teaching. These pathways cover a range of disciplines and teaching contexts from architecture and engineering to systems thinking and general education, illustrating the robustness and flexibility of learning-centred teaching. The authors provide examples of good teaching practice to help instructors, instructional designers, faculty developers and university administrators see how principles of learning-centred teaching and assessment can translate practically into quality classroom teaching and learning. The rigorous assessment methodology is both highly reflective and readily applicable to teaching assessment and portfolio development. It also shows how Blumberg's (2019) rubrics and Cole & Stavros' (2019) SOAR (Strengths, Opportunities, Aspirations and Results) framework can be used to evaluate the impact of interventions.
Contributing unique insights, this is a valuable guide for anyone interested in implementing student learning-centred pedagogical approaches and using rubrics for assessing teaching practice.
Contents
Table of Contents
List of Contributors
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Mary Deane Sorcinelli
Part I. Contexts of Learning-Centred Teaching
Chapter 1. Why Learning-Centred Teaching? Join Us on a Transformational Journey as Educators
Lynette Tan, Daniel Jew & Phyllis Blumberg
Chapter 2. Our Faculty Learning Community: A Shared Journey of Developing More Learning-Centred Teaching
Daniel Jew, Siu-Kit Lau & Bellam Sreenivasulu
Chapter 3. Concepts and Tools for Systematic Review and Analysis of Teaching
Phyllis Blumberg
Part II. Courses: Learning-Centred Teaching Examples
Chapter 4. Developing Student Agency and Responsibility for Learning: Strategies to Redistribute the Balance of Power and Instil Meta-Cognitive Skills
Lynette Tan
Chapter 5. Enhancing Engagement, Participation, and Reflection through a Co-Constructed Rubric Exercise
Joel K. Q. Chow
Chapter 6. Empowering Students' Self-Learning using the Case Method
Kuan Y. H.
Chapter 7. Learning-Centred Teaching and Function of Content on Students' Learning of Systems Thinking and System Dynamics Modelling
Bellam Sreenivasulu
Chapter 8. Reimagining the Role of the Instructor in a Residential College Course on Identity
Kankana Mukhopadhyay
Chapter 9. Promoting Student Engagement with Content in Engineering Education: An Integrated Design Using Blended Learning and Formative Assessment
Daniel W. M. Sng
Chapter 10. Students' Experience and Performance in Process-Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning (POGIL) in a Design Course
Siu-Kit Lau
Chapter 11. Learning-Centric Instructional Design: Documenting Your Teaching Journey via Longitudinal Self-Assessment
Daniel Jew
Part III. Changing to Learning-Centred Teaching in Asia and Beyond
Chapter 12. The Use of Learning-centred Teaching Constructs in Our Asian Context. Overview and More Traditional Constructs: Role of Instructor, Function of Content and Purposes and Processes of Student Assessment
Daniel Jew & Phyllis Blumberg
Chapter 13. The Use of Learning-centred Teaching Constructs in Our Asian Context. The Less Traditional Constructs: Balance of Power and Development of Student Responsibility for Learning
Lynette Tan & Phyllis Blumberg
Chapter 14. Institutional Infrastructure and Support for Learning-Centred Teaching and Faculty Development
Phyllis Blumberg & Chng Huang Hoon
Chapter 15. Suggestions for Your Successful Transitions to Learning-Centred Teaching
Phyllis Blumberg, Daniel Jew & Lynette Tan
Chapter 16. Conclusion. Learning-Centred Teaching: Lessons learned for the Path Forward in Asia and Beyond
Phyllis Blumberg, Lynette Tan & Daniel Jew
Volume References
Glossary
Appendix
Index
