Syllabus

Author: William Germano
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691192219
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 232

Book Description
How redesigning your syllabus can transform your teaching, your classroom, and the way your students learn Generations of teachers have built their classes around the course syllabus, a semester-long contract that spells out what each class meeting will focus on (readings, problem sets, case studies, experiments), and what the student has to turn in by a given date. But what does that way of thinking about the syllabus leave out—about our teaching and, more importantly, about our students’ learning? In Syllabus, William Germano and Kit Nicholls take a fresh look at this essential but almost invisible bureaucratic document and use it as a starting point for rethinking what students—and teachers—do. What if a teacher built a semester’s worth of teaching and learning backward—starting from what students need to learn to do by the end of the term, and only then selecting and arranging the material students need to study? Thinking through the lived moments of classroom engagement—what the authors call “coursetime”—becomes a way of striking a balance between improv and order. With fresh insights and concrete suggestions, Syllabus shifts the focus away from the teacher to the work and growth of students, moving the classroom closer to the genuinely collaborative learning community we all want to create.

Charleston Syllabus

Author: Chad Williams
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820349577
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 371

Book Description
On June 17, 2015, a white supremacist entered Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina, and sat with some of its parishioners during a Wednesday night Bible study session. An hour later, he began expressing his hatred for African Americans, and soon after, he shot nine church members dead, the church’s pastor and South Carolina state senator, Rev. Clementa C. Pinckney, among them. The ensuing manhunt for the shooter and investigation of his motives revealed his beliefs in white supremacy and reopened debates about racial conflict, southern identity,systemic racism, civil rights, and the African American church as an institution. In the aftermath of the massacre, Professors Chad Williams, Kidada Williams, and Keisha N. Blain sought a way to put the murder—and the subsequent debates about it in the media—in the context of America’s tumultuous history of race relations and racial violence on a global scale. They created the Charleston Syllabus on June 19, starting it as a hashtag on Twitter linking to scholarly works on the myriad of issues related to the murder. The syllabus’s popularity exploded and is already being used as a key resource in discussions of the event. Charleston Syllabus is a reader—a collection of new essays and columns published in the wake of the massacre, along with selected excerpts from key existing scholarly books and general-interest articles. The collection draws from a variety of disciplines—history, sociology, urban studies, law, critical race theory—and includes a selected and annotated bibliography for further reading, drawing from such texts as the Confederate constitution, South Carolina’s secession declaration, songs, poetry, slave narratives, and literacy texts. As timely as it is necessary, the book will be a valuable resource for understanding the roots of American systemic racism, white privilege, the uses and abuses of the Confederate flag and its ideals, the black church as a foundation for civil rights activity and state violence against such activity, and critical whiteness studies.

Syllabus

Author: Lynda Barry
Publisher: Drawn & Quarterly
ISBN: 177046543X
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 204

Book Description
Writing exercises and creativity advice from Barry's pioneering, life-changing workshop The award-winning author Lynda Barry is the creative force behind the genre-defying and bestselling work What It Is. She believes that anyone can be a writer and has set out to prove it. For the past decade, Barry has run a highly popular writing workshop for nonwriters called Writing the Unthinkable, which was featured in The New York Times Magazine. Syllabus: Notes from an Accidental Professor is the first book to make her innovative lesson plans and writing exercises available to the public for home or classroom use. Barry teaches a method of writing that focuses on the relationship between the hand, the brain, and spontaneous images, both written and visual. It has been embraced by people across North America—prison inmates, postal workers, university students, high-school teachers, and hairdressers—for opening pathways to creativity. Syllabus takes the course plan for Barry’s workshop and runs wild with it in her densely detailed signature style. Collaged texts, ballpoint-pen doodles, and watercolor washes adorn Syllabus’s yellow lined pages, which offer advice on finding a creative voice and using memories to inspire the writing process. Throughout it all, Barry’s voice (as an author and as a teacher-mentor) rings clear, inspiring, and honest.

Teaching College

Author: Norman Eng
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780998587516
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description

The Course Syllabus

Author: Judith Grunert O'Brien
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 164

Book Description
When it was first published in 1997, The Course Syllabus became the gold standard reference for both new and experienced college faculty. Like the first edition, this book is based on a learner-centered approach. Because faculty members are now deeply committed to engaging students in learning, the syllabus has evolved into a useful, if lengthy, document. Today's syllabus provides details about course objectives, requirements and expectations, and also includes information about teaching philosophies, specific activities and the rationale for their use, and tools essential to student success.

Curriculum, Syllabus Design, and Equity

Author: Allan Luke
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0415803195
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 182

Book Description
Advancing a unified, principled approach that aims for high quality/high equity educational outcomes, this book offers clear, realistic guidelines for the tasks of writing curriculum documents and designing official syllabi and professional development programs at system and school levels.

Handbook of Foreign Language Communication and Learning

Author: Karlfried Knapp
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110188333
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 753

Book Description
The Handbooks of Applied Linguistics series is based on an understanding of Applied Linguistics as an inter- and transdisciplinary field of academic enquiry. Applied Linguistics deals with the theoretical and empirical investigation of real-world problems in which language and communication are a central issue. The Handbooks of Applied Linguistics provide a state-of-the-art description of established and emerging areas of Applied Linguistics. Each volume gives an overview of the field, identifies most important traditions and their findings, identifies the gaps in current research, and gives perspectives for future directions.

Syllabus Design

Author: David Nunan
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780194371391
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 184

Book Description
Demonstrates the principles involved in planning and designing an effective syllabus. This book examines important concepts, such as needs analysis, goal-setting, and content specification, and serves as a useful introduction for teachers who want to gain an understanding of syllabus design in order to modify the syllabuses with which they work.

Endless Education

Author: Carl C. Campbell
Publisher: University of the West Indies Press
ISBN: 9789766400323
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 280

Book Description
Endless Education is the first comprehensive study of education in Trinidad and Tobago during the long thirty-year regime of the People's National Movement (PNM), from 1956 to 1986. Carl Campbell focuses on the efforts by Williams and the PNM to use education as an instrument of postcolonial nation building, and the consequent tensions and conflicts between him and the churches, between 'creoles' and Indians, and between Tobago and Trinidad. His study concludes that the goal of national integration through education eluded the planners, and that diversity, not unity, characterized the education system. Significantly, Campbell finds that as in many other facets of national life, only partial and incomplete decolonization was attained in education. This study is useful as a source book in schools, colleges and at the University of the West Indies. Readers who reside outside of the Caribbean and who want to know more about the social history of one of the most important English-speaking Caribbean islands should find this book of more than passing interest. This is the companion volume to Campbell's The Young Colonials: A Social History of Education in Trinidad and Tobago 1834-1939 (The University of the West Indies Press, 1996).

Study Syllabus for the Book of Ezekiel

Author: Billye Brim
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780974215631
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 128

Book Description
"Indeed the Prophet Ezekiel made dire warnings, and descriptions of Israel's dark sins. But Ezekiel was also a priest, and his ministry was priestly in consolation. The Lord gave him translations and visions that prophesied of the promised redemption. He prophesied the end of days return to their Land that we are witnessing now. He foresaw in detail the Millennial Temple, the division of the Land again to the returned Tribes of Israel. The Book ends with the wonderful proclamation that the Glory will be over earthly Jerusalem when its very name shall be Jehovah Shammah, The LORD is There."We are living in what the original Hebrew text of the Bible calls "the end of days." The King James Version translates the phrase as "the latter days."The Bible declares that there is a God-given light of revelation that shines upon the unknown--illuminating the darkness of these days and the days to come. This light is written down for us, primarily in the Books of the Old Testament Prophets.We are advised to "take heed unto them." For they are "a light that shineth" in the dark places of what is now past to us, and of the present, and the future.Yechezkel, Ezekiel, is one of the most enlightening of those Books of the Prophets. In it you will find brilliant light on these days and the days to come. And you will see a revelation of the Shechinah Glory you may never have seen.This study booklet, with outlines and comments by Dr. Billye Brim highlighting key passages of each chapter of The Book of Ezekiel, will bring light and understanding to this often misunderstood book of the Bible.