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Syllabus: The remarkable, unremarkable document that changes everything

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Syllabus: The remarkable, unremarkable document that changes everything

SKU: 9780691192208 Category: Product ID: 166593

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Title: Syllabus: The remarkable, unremarkable document that changes everything
Author: GERMANO WILLIAM/NICHOLLS KIT
Illustrator: 10 B/W ILLUS.
Format: HARDCOVER
Publication date: 01/01/2021
Imprint: PRINCETON UNI PRESS
Price: $40.00
Publishing status: Active

Generations of teachers have built their classes around the course syllabus, a semester-long contract that spells out what each class meeting will focus on (readings, problem sets, case studies, experiments), and what the student has to turn in by a given date. But what does that way of thinking about the syllabus leave out about our teaching and, more importantly, about our students' learning?

In Syllabus, William Germano and Kit Nicholls take a fresh look at this essential but almost invisible bureaucratic document and use it as a starting point for rethinking what students and teachers do. What if a teacher built a semester's worth of teaching and learning backwardstarting from what students need to learn to do by the end of the term, and only then selecting and arranging the material students need to study?

Thinking through the lived moments of classroom engagement what the authors call 'coursetime' becomes a way of striking a balance between improv and order. With fresh insights and concrete suggestions, Syllabus shifts the focus away from the teacher to the work and growth of students, moving the classroom closer to the genuinely collaborative learning community we all want to create.

'An inspiring exhortation to make the standard college syllabus work harder and better…A thoughtful, provocative collection of well-tested teaching strategies and philosophies that work across the curriculum.' Kirkus reviews, starred review

ISBN: 9780691192208
Dimension: 216mm X 140mm

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Dimensions 216 × 140 mm