7 Learner-Centered Principles to Improve Your Teaching

Teaching is a complex activity, which spans cognitive motivational, developmental, emotional and social dimensions.  

In this online seminar on CD, Michele DiPietro, Ph.D.,  distills the research on learning into seven principles and provides pedagogical strategies for educators.

This seminar is based on the research that DiPietro and his co-authors for their new book,  How Learning Works: Seven Research-Based Principles for Smart Teaching.

He distills more than 50 years of instructional research into 7 principles, explains how understanding each of those principles can enhance teaching, and then provides accessible and effective pedagogical strategies that educators can adopt immediately.

After viewing 7 Learner-Centered Principles to Improve Your Teaching, viewers will:

• Be able to list and discuss the seven principles of learning and how they can be used to improve teaching;
• Understand the importance of surveying students’ prior knowledge and motivation;
• Learn to monitor how students construct their organization of knowledge;
• Implement strategies that force students to plan and reflect (e.g. using “exam wrappers”);
• Know how to write syllabi with a tone that creates a positive and productive learning climate;
• Be able to craft educational activities that tap into student goals;
• Know how to break down skills into their basic components; and
• Generate pedagogical strategies that support deep learning, activate prior knowledge, reveal knowledge organization, increase student motivation, facilitate the mastery of skills, foster student holistic development, and foster reflection and self awareness.

Most of us are being asked to do more—teach more, assess more, report more, publish more.

This seminar will help you use your limited time wisely.

You can focus your work on your subject matter and let this seminar handle the teaching strategy.

DiPietro is the Executive Director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning at Kennesaw State University. He is also the president-elect of the Professional Organizational Development Network in Higher Education and co-author of the book How Learning Works: Seven Research-Based Principles for Smart Teaching.

Who should view

• Faculty
• Faculty developers
• Graduate student instructors
• Instructional designers

Includes a Discussion Guide for Facilitators

Viewing a Magna Online Seminar as a team can help you improve instruction institution-wide. We include a Discussion Guide for Facilitators that provides step-by-step instructions for generating productive discussions and thoughtful reflection. You also get guidelines for continuing the conversation after the seminar, tailoring and implementing the strategies discussed, and creating a feedback loop for sharing best practices and challenges.

Don’t spend another moment worrying about whether your students are absorbing the material you present. Improve your efficacy with research-backed strategies that you can implement right away.

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