Student-Assisted Teaching: A Guide to Faculty-Student Teamwork by Judith E. Mill

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This innovative handbook provides a range of models for undergraduate student-assisted teaching partnerships to help faculty, faculty developers, and administrators make learning more student-centered, more effective, and more productive.

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This innovative handbook provides a range of models for undergraduate student-assisted teaching partnerships to help faculty, faculty developers, and administrators make learning more student-centered, more effective, and more productive. Each of the 31 models included in this volume is supported by practical details and focuses on four main aspects of a specific peer-assisted learning environment: implementation, evidence of effectiveness and learning benefits, analysis of time and cost expenditures, and suggestions for replication. Contents include discussions of working with undergraduate partners in several areas: Programs for first-year students Difficult courses Special groups Courses and programs for all students Faculty development The chapters present a range of approaches, applications, disciplines, institutions, and contexts, and demonstrate that student-faculty partnerships can be adapted to meet diverse needs in a variety of situations. Extensive appendices aid implementation by providing concrete examples of hiring documents, training syllabi, teaching materials, and evaluation methods.

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This innovative book provides a range of models for undergraduate student-assisted teaching partnerships to help faculty, faculty developers, and administrators make learning more student-centered, more effective, and more productive.Each of the 31 models included in this volume is supported with practical details and focuses on four main aspects of a specific peer-assisted learning environment: 1) implementation, 2) evidence of effectiveness and learning benefits, 3) analysis of time and cost expenditures, and 4) suggestions for replication.The chapters present a range of approaches, applications, disciplines, institutions, and contexts, and demonstrate that student-faculty partnerships can be adapted to meet diverse needs in a variety of situations. Extensive appendices aid implementation by providing concrete examples of hiring documents, training syllabi, teaching materials, and evaluation methods.

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This innovative book provides a range of models for undergraduate student-assisted teaching partnerships to help faculty, faculty developers, and administrators make learning more student-centered, more effective, and more productive. Each of the 31 models included in this volume is supported with practical details and focuses on four main aspects of a specific peer-assisted learning environment: 1) implementation, 2) evidence of effectiveness and learning benefits, 3) analysis of time and cost expenditures, and 4) suggestions for replication. The chapters present a range of approaches, applications, disciplines, institutions, and contexts, and demonstrate that student-faculty partnerships can be adapted to meet diverse needs in a variety of situations. Extensive appendices aid implementation by providing concrete examples of hiring documents, training syllabi, teaching materials, and evaluation methods.

Author Biography

JUDITH E. MILLER is Director of Educational development, Technology, and Assessment, and Professor of Biology and Biotechnology at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. She has published and presented extensively in the areas of cooperative learning and educational productivity. She received the Outstanding Undergraduate Science Teacher award from the Society for College Science teachers and Kendall-Hunt Publishers in 1997. JAMES E. GROCCIA is Director of the Program for Excellence in Teaching Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology, and a member of the Graduate faculty in Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis at the University of Missouri-Columbia. His teaching and research interests, center on student-assisted learning, college teaching, educational innovation and productivity, and cross-cultural psychology. MARILYN S. MILLER is Assistant Director of the Program for Excellence in Teaching, and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis at the University of Missouri-Columbia. She has presented nationally on issues of communication across linguistic and cultural lines, and the role of inactive learning in compensating for linguistic difficulties of foreign instructors and students.

Table of Contents

About the editors. Foreword. Preface. Introduction. Model Matrix. Part I. Undergraduate Students Assisting with Programs for First-Year Students. 1. Establishing a Common Ground: A Cojoint Training Model for Instructors and Peer Educators. (Eve M. Adams, Susan C. Brown, and Terry L. Cook). 2. Lessons From Peers: The Design Exchange Mark J. Chidister, Frank H. Bell, Jr., and Kurt M. Earnest). 3. Peer Teaching in the Experimental College (Robyn Gittleman and Howard Woolf). 4. Peer Facilitators as Lead Freshman Seminar Instructors Jean M. Henscheid). 5. The Teaching Teams Program: A Just-in-Time model for Peer Assistance Harold P. Larson, Reed Mencke, Stacy J. Tollefson, Elizabeth Harrison, and Elena Berman). 6. The Teaching Teams Program: Transforming the Role of the Graduate Teaching Assistant (David A. Wood, Jr., Jennifer L. Hart, Stacy J. Tollefson, Dawn E. DeToro, and Julie Libarkin). 7. The Teaching Teams Program: Empowering Undergraduates in a Student-Centered Research University (Lacey A. Stover, Kristen A. Story, Amanda M. Skousen, Cynthia E. Jacks, Heather Logan, and Benjamin T. Bush). 8. Peer-Assisted Cooperative Learning: An Experiment in Educational Quality and Productivity (Judith E. Miller, david DiBiasio, John Minasian, and James S. Catterall). 9. Students: Managing to Learn; Teachers: Learning to Manage (Martin H. Murray). 10. Undergraduates Teaching in a Collaborative Learning Paradigm (Samuel B. Thompson, Sarah B. Westfall, and Christine Reimers). 11. Peers at Work: Tutors at Spelman College (Anne B. Warner and Christine K. Farris). 12. Students Mentoring Students in Portfolio Development (W. Alan Wright and Bruce Barton). Part II. Undergraduate Students Assisting with Difficult Courses. 13. The Experimental Study Group: An Alternative First-Year Program at MIT (David Custer and Peter Dourmashkin). 14. MASH (Math and Science Help): Supplemental Instruction at a Technological University (Ann garvin and Dale Snyder). 15. Undergraduate Peer Mentors in Mathematics (Miguel Paredes, Paul Pontius, Rene Torres, and Joseph Chance). 16. A Model for Integrating Technical Preceptors into the Classroom (Mary Poulton and John Kemeny). 17. Academic Excellence Workshops: Boosting Success in Technical Courses (Ruth A. Streveler). 18. Supplemental Instruction at an Urban Community College (Joyce Ship Zaritsky). Part III. Undergraduate Students Assisting with Special Groups. 19. Peer-Assisted Teaching and Learning in Distance education (Judith A. Couchman). 20. Using Structured Study Groups to Create Chemistry Honors Sections (Brian P. Coppola, Douglas S. Daniels, and Jason K. Pontrello). 21. Student Mentoring and Community in a University Honors Program (Ronald E. Mickel). 22. Where Undergraduates are the Experts: Peer-Based Instruction in the Writing Center (Dennis Paoli and Eric Hobson). Part IV. Undergraduate Students Assisting in Courses and Programs for All Students. 23. Peer Facilitators of In-Class Groups: Adapting Problem-Based Learning to the Undergraduate Setting (Deborah E. Allen and Harold B. White, III). 24. Student-Directed Instruction in an Undergraduate Psychopathology Course (Cheryl Golden and Calverta McMorris). 25. Peer Writing Tours (Lisa Lebduska). 26. The Workshop Project: Peer-Led team Learning in Chemistry (Jerry L. Sarquis. Linda J. Dixon, David K. Gosser, Jack A. Kampmeier, Vicki Roth, Victor S. Strozak, and Pratibha varma-Nelson). 27. An Introductory Psychology Laboratory designed and Taught by Undergraduate Teaching Interns (Stephen P. Stelzner, Michael G. Livingston, and Thomas Creed). 28. Undergraduate Teaching Assistants Bring Active Learning to Class (Melissa A. Thibodeau). Part V. Undergraduate Students Assisting in Faculty Development. 29. Student-Faculty Partnerships to develop Teaching and Enhance Learning (Milton D. Cox). 30. Educating the Critic: Student Driven Quality (Elizabeth Kinland, Lisa Firing Lenze, Lynn Melander Moore, and Larry D. Spence). 31. College Teachers and Student Consultants: Collaborating about Teaching and Learning (D. Lynn Sorenson).

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This innovative handbook provides a range of models for undergraduate student-assisted teaching partnerships to help faculty, faculty developers, and administrators make learning more student-centered, more effective, and more productive. Each of the 31 models included in this volume is supported by practical details and focuses on four main aspects of a specific peer-assisted learning environment: implementation, evidence of effectiveness and learning benefits, analysis of time and cost expenditures, and suggestions for replication. Contents include discussions of working with undergraduate partners in several areas: Programs for first-year students Difficult courses Special groups Courses and programs for all students Faculty development The chapters present a range of approaches, applications, disciplines, institutions, and contexts, and demonstrate that student-faculty partnerships can be adapted to meet diverse needs in a variety of situations. Extensive appendices aid implementation by providing concrete examples of hiring documents, training syllabi, teaching materials, and evaluation methods.

Details ISBN1882982428 Short Title STUDENT ASSISTED TEACHING Language English ISBN-10 1882982428 ISBN-13 9781882982424 Media Book Format Paperback Illustrations Yes Country of Publication United States Edited by Marilyn S. Miller Birth 1954 Author Marilyn S. Miller Series JB - Anker Edition 1st DOI 10.1604/9781882982424 Series Number 19 UK Release Date 2007-06-19 AU Release Date 2001-01-01 NZ Release Date 2001-01-01 Pages 252 Publisher John Wiley & Sons Inc Year 2007 Publication Date 2007-06-19 Imprint Jossey-Bass Inc.,U.S. Subtitle A Guide to Faculty-Student Teamwork Place of Publication New York DEWEY 378.1794 Audience Professional & Vocational US Release Date 2007-06-19 We've got this

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