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Hao, Richie Neil – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2011
Informed by Rosenberg's (2003) concept of nonviolent communication, the author's pedagogical perspective encourages educators to criticize institutional and classroom practices that ideologically place underserved students at disadvantaged positions. At the same time, this perspective urges teachers to be self-reflective of their actions through…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Altruism, Teaching Methods, Teacher Role
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Fong, Mary – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2009
Spiritualism can exist in a secular educational institution. In this autoethnography, the author shares the spiritual challenge she had with students in her initial years of teaching as an assistant professor. She discusses her spiritual pedagogical approach, which she integrates into her teaching strategies to touch the minds, hearts, and spirits…
Descriptors: Teacher Role, Teaching Methods, Mentors, Teacher Student Relationship
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Engstrom, Cathy McHugh – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2008
The pedagogical assumptions and teaching practices of learning community models reflect exemplary conditions for learning, so using these models with unprepared students seems desirable and worthy of investigation. This chapter describes the key role of faculty in creating active, integrative learning experiences for students in basic skills…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Role, Community Colleges, College Students
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Enerson, Diane M. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2001
Proposes the metaphor of teaching as mentoring, suggesting that faculty use their understanding of mentoring and its role within the academy as an opportunity for renewal and change, a way to reflect on daily activities in the classroom and in larger institutional contexts. (EV)
Descriptors: College Instruction, Higher Education, Mentors, Teacher Role
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Kenedy, Robert; Monty, Vivienne – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2008
There are multiple stages to developing critical skills when both the librarian and faculty member are partners in the process. One of the first actions is for both the librarian and the faculty member to be in the library class to help students with information literacy. A teaching dynamic becomes evident, and the students understand the…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Research Skills, Information Literacy, Librarians
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Gerlach, Jeanne Marcum – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1994
The nature of collaborative learning is examined, including some discussion of the role of the instructor. A collaborative learning situation in a women's studies course is described as an example of integration of the approach into content area instruction. (MSE)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, College Instruction, Cooperative Learning, Educational Principles
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Gabelnick, Faith; MacGregor, Jean; Matthews, Roberta S.; Smith, Barbara Leigh – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1990
Examines how the structure of learning communities shapes the teaching/learning task, and describes the kind of pedagogical adjustments that learning communities demand of students and faculty. Notes that the structure creates avenues for intellectual and pedagogical exploration; the attitude of shared inquiry and mutual, responsible community can…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, College Environment, College Faculty, College Instruction
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Walker, Charles J. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1991
Classroom assessment techniques were used in a large survey college course in psychology to monitor student performance and collect other forms of student feedback. As a result, student-teacher role relations changed, the teacher adopted the role of learning coach and reduced lecture content, and the classroom environment was enlivened. (MSE)
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Classroom Research, Classroom Techniques, Course Content
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Flannery, James L. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1994
In a collaborative learning situation, the college teacher must learn to use knowledge and authority differently, using new forms of classroom control to promote internal leadership and drawing on discipline knowledge primarily to guide group inquiry. (MSE)
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, College Faculty, College Instruction