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Consulting about Teaching: An Overview.

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Knapper, Christopher; Piccinin, Sergio – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1999

This introduction to a special issue on using consultants to improve teaching in higher education considers the origins and rationale for instructional consulting, raises some questions about the conceptual underpinnings for consulting practice, examines who offers and who sells consultation, and urges training in consultation skills and greater…

Descriptors: Consultation Programs, Higher Education, Instructional Improvement, Teaching Models

Fostering Critical Literacy: The Art of Assignment Design

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Wilner, Arlene – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2005

Applying reading and writing theory to cases in composition, this chapter troubleshoots assignments that produced disappointing results and illustrates how the model of the "ill-structured problem" can help writing instructors craft assignments that foster the cognitive and affective maturation essential to college-level literacy. (Contains 2…

Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Assignments, Problem Solving, Student Development