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Book SynopsisHow what we know about K12 education can revolutionize learning in college. Honorable Mention in the Foreword INDIES Award for Education by FOREWORD Reviews, Winner of the 2021 Bronze IPPY Award for Education IIAmid the wide-ranging public debate about the future of higher education is a tension about the role of the faculty as instructors versus researchers and the role of teaching in the mission of a university. What is absent from that discourse is any clear understanding of what constitutes good teaching in college. In Convergent Teaching, masterful professors of education Aaron M. Pallas and Anna Neumann make the case that American higher education must hold fast to its core mission of fostering learning and growth for all people. Arguing that colleges and universities do this best through their teaching function, the book portrays teaching as a professional practice that teachers should actively hone. Drawing on rich research on K12 classroom teaching, the authors develop the
Trade ReviewPallas and Neumann are part of [a] teaching and learning revolution in higher education.
—Lisa Baldez,
Public BooksTable of ContentsAcknowledgments
Part I. A Roadmap
Chapter 1. American Ambivalence and College Teaching
Part II. Convergent Teaching
Chapter 2. Targeting: Carving Out What's To Be Taught
Chapter 3. Surfacing: Unearthing Students' Prior Knowledge to Foster Learning
Chapter 4. Navigating: Orchestrating Subject-Matter Concepts and Students' Prior Knowledge
Part III. Policies and Practices
Chapter 5. Campus-Level Supports for Convergent Teaching
Chapter 6. Supporting Convergent Teaching beyond the Campus
Notes
References
Index
