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This book is about student success and how to support and improve
it. It takes as its point of departure that we--as faculty,
assessment directors, student affairs professionals, and
staff--reflect together in a purposeful and informed way about how
our teaching, curricula, the co-curriculum, and assessment work in
concert to support and improve student learning and success. It
also requires that we do so in collaboration with our colleagues
and our students for the rich insights that we gain from them.
Conversational in style, this book offers a wide variety of
illustrations of how your peers are putting assessment into
practice in ways that are meaningful to them and their
institutions, and that lead to improved student learning. The
authors provide rich guidance for activities ranging from everyday
classroom teaching and assessment to using assessment to improve
programs and entire institutions. The authors envisage individual
faculty at four-year institutions and community colleges as their
main audience, whether those faculty are focused on their own
classes or support their colleagues through leadership roles in
assessment. If you plan to remain focused on your own courses and
students, you will find that those sections of this book will help
you better understand why and how assessment leaders do what they
do, which in turn will make your participation in assessment more
engaging and increase your expertise in facilitating student
learning. Because the authors also aim to strengthen connections
between the curriculum and co-curriculum and include examples of
co-curricular assessment, student affairs professionals and staff
interested in doing the same will also find ideas in this book
relevant to their work. Opening with a chapter on equity in
assessment practice, so critical to learning from and benefitting
our diverse students, the authors guide you through the development
and use of learning outcomes, the design of assignments with
attention to clear prompts and rubrics, and the achievement of
alignment and coherence in pedagogy, curriculum, and assessment to
better support student engagement, achievement and success. The
chapter on using student evidence for improvement offers support,
resources, and recommendations for doing so, and demonstrates
exciting uses of student wisdom. The book concludes by emphasizing
the importance of reflection in assessment practices--offering
powerful examples and strategies for professional development--and
by describing appropriate, creative, and effective approaches for
communicating assessment information with attention to purpose and
audience.
This book is about student success and how to support and improve
it. It takes as its point of departure that we--as faculty,
assessment directors, student affairs professionals, and
staff--reflect together in a purposeful and informed way about how
our teaching, curricula, the co-curriculum, and assessment work in
concert to support and improve student learning and success. It
also requires that we do so in collaboration with our colleagues
and our students for the rich insights that we gain from them.
Conversational in style, this book offers a wide variety of
illustrations of how your peers are putting assessment into
practice in ways that are meaningful to them and their
institutions, and that lead to improved student learning. The
authors provide rich guidance for activities ranging from everyday
classroom teaching and assessment to using assessment to improve
programs and entire institutions. The authors envisage individual
faculty at four-year institutions and community colleges as their
main audience, whether those faculty are focused on their own
classes or support their colleagues through leadership roles in
assessment. If you plan to remain focused on your own courses and
students, you will find that those sections of this book will help
you better understand why and how assessment leaders do what they
do, which in turn will make your participation in assessment more
engaging and increase your expertise in facilitating student
learning. Because the authors also aim to strengthen connections
between the curriculum and co-curriculum and include examples of
co-curricular assessment, student affairs professionals and staff
interested in doing the same will also find ideas in this book
relevant to their work. Opening with a chapter on equity in
assessment practice, so critical to learning from and benefitting
our diverse students, the authors guide you through the development
and use of learning outcomes, the design of assignments with
attention to clear prompts and rubrics, and the achievement of
alignment and coherence in pedagogy, curriculum, and assessment to
better support student engagement, achievement and success. The
chapter on using student evidence for improvement offers support,
resources, and recommendations for doing so, and demonstrates
exciting uses of student wisdom. The book concludes by emphasizing
the importance of reflection in assessment practices--offering
powerful examples and strategies for professional development--and
by describing appropriate, creative, and effective approaches for
communicating assessment information with attention to purpose and
audience.
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Hot Seat (Paperback)
Dan Shapiro
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R862
R637
Discovery Miles 6 370
Save R225 (26%)
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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The most mysterious role at a startup is that of the CEO. What
exactly does the CEO do, anyway? The CTO builds the product. The VP
Sales sells the product. But what is the CEO thing all about? Hot
Seat: The Startup CEO Handbook pulls back the curtain on the
executive suite. This may be the title held by Jobs, Gates, and
Zuckerberg, but it's also the title held by thousands of
overconfident wantrepreneurs with starry eyes and little hope of
success. This book is about what separates the successes from those
who fall flat.
The authors analyze the ways in which places have been transformed
through the changes taking place within them - shifts in the nature
and quantity of paid and unpaid work, in social and political
mobilization, in cultural and aesthetic experience and in the built
environment. Using a locality study of Lancaster, they emphasize
place as a decisive point in understanding social and economic
changes. They consider how successfully concepts of `restructuring'
explain the relation between local and global change. The book will
be a major contribution to international debates on restructuring
and the impact of global change on the locality. It will also be of
interest to all social scientists interested in the sociology,
economy and human geography of contemporary Britain.
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Raph's Tale (Paperback)
Dan Shapiro; Illustrated by John Watkins-Chow
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R386
R315
Discovery Miles 3 150
Save R71 (18%)
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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"Voices are a soul's signature," says psychologist Dan Shapiro, who
in his daily practice hears plenty of them. For all his expertise,
he admits he's still terrified that "someone will keep something
from me, and when they tell me the truth, I'll be useless."
Treating other physicians has become one of Shapiro's specialties.
When the obstetrician Amelia Sorvino seeks his help--distraught
that her own medical error could have injured a patient's baby--
Shapiro finds his talents as counselor and healer pushed to their
limits. Session by session, he works to discover the sources of
Amelia's anguish--for his own sake as much as hers: he's familiar
with the burden of a doctor's guilt, and he has seen how loss and
trauma, if unchecked, can echo from generation to generation in a
family. In this probing, intensely personal memoir, the words
"Physician, heal thyself" assume a fresh and moving urgency.
A young man battles Hodgkin's disease and survives--with more than a little help from his Mom--in this wry and uplifting memoir about life, love, and beating the odds.
When Dan Shapiro's decidely anti-drug mom put aside her convictions and grew marijuana in her backyard garden (behind a discrete screen of sunflowers), he learned that in the face of a crisis we all have the opportunity to decide what is most important to us. In this hilarious, high-spirited, sometimes harrowing memoir, Shapiro invites us into his battle with cancer, his romance with an oncology nurse, his journey through graduate school, and his most important life lessons. He tells his story with wit and grace and indomitable spirit, showing us that only when the rhythm of life is stirred violently are able to discover its full beauty.
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