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Constructing a Learner-Centered Syllabus: One Professor's Journey. IDEA Paper #60
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Richmond, Aaron S. – IDEA Center, Inc., 2016
Educators increasingly agree that a learner-centered syllabus is associated with better rapport between students and teachers and increased student motivation, achievement, and empowerment. Accordingly, in 2009 Cullen and Harris developed a rubric for assessing the degree to which a syllabus is learner-centered versus teacher-centered. To date,…
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Course Evaluation, Curriculum Development, Educational History
Developing Graduate Students' Self-Efficacy with Learner-Centred Lecturing
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Troop, Meagan; Wallar, Lauren; Aspenlieder, Erin – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2015
This paper presents the findings of a mixed-method case study conducted at the University of Guelph on the relationship between practice lecturing and graduate student self-efficacy. Building on the work of Boman (2013), and using surveys and individual interviews, we measured and characterized the perceived changes in graduate students'…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Self Efficacy, Student Centered Learning, Student Centered Curriculum
Getting to the Core: How Early Implementers Are Approaching the Common Core in California
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Brown, Brentt; Vargo, Merrill – Pivot Learning Partners, 2014
California has embarked on a major new wave of curriculum reform with the adoption of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), the new English Language Development (ELD) standards, and the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). The adoption of the CCSS builds a legacy of standards-based education reform in California that began with the…
Descriptors: State Standards, Program Implementation, Educational Practices, Educational Strategies
Getting to the Core: How Early Implementers Are Approaching the Common Core in California
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Brown, Brentt; Vargo, Merrill – Policy Analysis for California Education, PACE, 2014
California has embarked on a major new wave of curriculum reform with the adoption of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), the new English Language Development (ELD) standards, and the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). The adoption of the CCSS builds a legacy of standards-based education reform in California that began with the…
Descriptors: State Standards, Program Implementation, Educational Practices, Educational Strategies
Definitions and Uses: Case Study of Teachers Implementing Project-Based Learning
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Tamim, Suha R.; Grant, Michael M. – Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-based Learning, 2013
The purpose of this descriptive study was to explore inservice teachers' definitions of project-based learning (PjBL) and their accounts on the meaning of their PjBL implementations. A purposive sample of six teachers from grades four through twelve in public and private schools participated. Three themes evolved from inductive analysis: (1)…
Descriptors: Definitions, Case Studies, Active Learning, Student Projects
Go for Gold: Integrating Process and Product in ESP.
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Hyland, Ken; Hyland, Fiona – English for Specific Purposes, 1992
The "Go for Gold" task-based English for Special Purposes course for second-year business students at the Papua New Guinea University of Technology is described. It is argued that a syllabus may have a process focus without being totally learner led. A sample list of student expectations and evaluation forms are appended. (31 references)…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Curriculum Development, English for Special Purposes, Foreign Countries