ALS 609: Engaged Pedagogy -- First Steps for the New Teacher
2 Credits, Graded, CRN 15666
Fridays 12:00 to 1:50, Reed Seminar Room
Laurie Jones Neighbors, Instructor
Text: Teaching to Transgress, bell hooks
Enrollment: Limited to 12
"Engaged pedagogy has been essential to my development as an intellectual, as a teacher/professor because the heart of this approach to learning is critical thinking. Conditions of radical openness exist in any learning situation where students and teachers celebrate their abilities to think critically, to engage in pedagogical practice." -- bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress
This seminar is designed to acquaint GTFs with meaningful and engaging instructional practices associated with college teaching across the disciplines. Emphasis will be on learner-centered instruction and transformative education.
Course activities will include readings, discussions, engagement of new teaching models, and shared facilitation. Focused topics covered will be determined through participantsí needs and desires, but will include learning theories, cognitive development and motivation for learning, the multicultural challenge, active and cooperative learning, facilitation skills for invitational communication, purposeful use of instructional technology, and evaluating student performance in the learner-centered classroom.
Contact Us:
Email: tep@uoregon.edu, Phone: 541-346-2177 Fax: 541-346-2184
Teaching Effectiveness Program, Teaching and Learning Center, University of Oregon.
Last Modified: 01/27/11