Posts Tagged ‘Student-Centered Teaching’
November 12 - Problem-Based Learning: Benefits and Risks
By: Maryellen Weimer, PhD in Effective Teaching Strategies
Problem-based learning, the instructional approach in which carefully constructed, open-ended problems are used by groups of students to work through content to a solution, has gained a foothold in many quarters of higher education.
April 1 - Survey of College Faculty Reveals Increases in Student-Centered Teaching and Evaluation Methods
By: Mary Bart in Teaching and Learning, Trends in Higher Education
Helping students develop critical-thinking skills and discipline-specific knowledge remain at the forefront of faculty goals for undergraduate education, with 99.6 percent of faculty indicating that critical-thinking skills are “very important” or “essential” and 95.1 percent saying the same of discipline-specific knowledge. Other top goals include helping students to evaluate the quality and reliability of information (97.2 percent) and promoting the ability to write more effectively (96.4 percent).
