Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Teaching and Learning Styles
Teaching and Learning Styles
Overview
Naturally, teachers care deeply about how they teach and what their students learn. While there is considerable sage advice about teaching within disciplines, there is often little connection to teaching methods across disciplines. To compound this, most academics have not received any formal training in either the body of research about teaching and learning, nor in modern, effective teaching methodologies - it is often just assumed that faculty would absorb their content and be able to present it successfully.
But the advent of a new generation of students and increasingly sophisticated technology has left many teachers separated from their students. Similarly, most faculty teach their students in ways they were taught. And these methods may not be reaching today's students.
How do our students learn? How can student learning be effectively assessed in the best ways? What important principles from cognitive science and pedagogy should all faculty know and utilize in their teaching? All of these are challenges that today's professoriate face.
Related Links
(These links will open in new browser windows)Focus on Teaching and Learning
Main page and overview
Bibliography
On teaching and learning
Description
Of the Teaching Partners Program
On-line Resources
On teaching and learning
The Lexicon of Learning
Pages from Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) that facilitate understanding jargon commonly used in a variety of educational settings.
Professional Development Network
The mainpage for the POD group in CO
Chickering and Gamson
Seven principles of good undergraduate teaching
Teaching Tips
Outstanding set of references from U of Honolulu
UWSP Assessment Information
Links from the UWSP Program Assessment committee
Tools for Teaching
Helpful hints based on the intellectual development theory of William Perry
Personal, Ethical, and Intellectual Development of Students
Implementation of William Perry's theory
Teaching and learning - Alistair McNaught
Discussion of how to bring in learning styles from a science of pedagogy perspective
