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Friday, February 24, 2012

The National Teaching and Learning Forum E-Mail Newsletter - February 2012


Table of Contents


COMPLIMENTARY ARTICLE:
BULLET IMAGE A Disciplinary Approach for Teaching
Critical Thinking

Charles Bonwell,
Southeast Missouri State University

One of the earliest and best writers on active learning explains a practical approach to genuine, discipline-specific critical thinking.


BULLET IMAGE PRAXIS: Teaching Difficult Concepts
Joan Middendorf
Where we put our emphasis often unlocks understanding in ways that lock-step coverage simply does not.

BULLET IMAGE DEVELOPER’S DIARY: Metadisciplinary Education: A Requisite to Promoting Metadisciplinary Education. Educating in
Fractal Patterns XXXIV

Ed Nuhfer, California State University–Channel Islands
Teaching students content seems to be what we are doing, but what we want to be doing is teaching them how to see patterns, draw connections, think in ways that cross disciplinary boundaries. Before we can do that, we need to agree on what we see as the bigger picture, the literacy more than the content of our own disciplines.

BULLET IMAGE AD REM . . .: Writer’s Block: An Essay
Test-taker's Bane

Marilla Svinicki, University of Texas-Austin
Have you ever wanted to really help a student? You could see they were smart enough, but had a block, a problem with essay tests? Marilla Svinicki’s compassionate example will give you some ideas about what can be done.

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