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Teaching, Learning, and Innovation (TLI), UT Libraries, and the Department of Psychology invite anyone from UT to participate in the Lifelong Learning Book Club this Spring 2022 semester.
This book club aims to promote a community of support around lifelong learning for teachers and students a like. So faculty, staff, and students are all welcome!
This upcoming Spring 2022 semester, we will be reading
Teach students how to learn: strategies you can incorporate into any course to improve student metacognition, study skills, and motivation
By Dr. Saundra McGuire
About this book: "Saundra McGuire takes the reader sequentially through the ideas and strategies that students need to understand and implement. First, she demonstrates how introducing students to metacognition and Bloom’s Taxonomy reveals to them the importance of understanding how they learn and provides the lens through which they can view learning activities and measure their intellectual growth. Next, she presents a specific study system that can quickly empower students to maximize their learning. Then, she addresses the importance of dealing with emotion, attitudes, and motivation by suggesting ways to change students’ mindsets about ability and by providing a range of strategies to boost motivation and learning; finally, she offers guidance to faculty on partnering with campus learning centers." (Stylus Publishing)
Important note: Dr. Saundra McGuire will be the keynote speaker at the 2022 Innovative Teaching and Learning Conference hosted by TLI on March 29th, 2022. This is a great opportunity to become familiar with her work!
Stay tuned for more information about registering for and attending the conference.
The e-book is available online through the UT Libraries’ catalog, linked below.
Access to e-book
The Present Professor by ISBN: 9780806194684Publication Date: 2024-12-03It's hard to learn when you're under stress, and a lot harder when your teacher is struggling with stress, too. In a world where stress is unavoidable--where political turmoil, pandemic fallout, and personal challenges touch everyone--this timely book offers much-needed guidance for cutting through the emotional static that can hold teachers back. A specialist in pedagogical strategies with extensive classroom experience, Elizabeth A. Norell explains how an educator's presence, or authenticity, can be critical to creating transformational spaces for students. And presence, she argues, means uncovering and understanding one's own internal struggles and buried insecurities--stresses often left unconfronted in an academic culture that values knowing over feeling. Presenting the research on how and why such inner work unlocks transformational learning, The Present Professor equips educators with the tools for crafting a more authentic presence in their teaching work. At a time of crisis in higher education, as teachers struggle to find new ways to relate to, think about, and instruct students, this book holds a key. Implementing more inclusive pedagogies, Norell suggests, requires sorting out our own identities. In short, if we want to create spaces where students have the confidence, comfort, and psychological safety to learn and grow, we have to create spaces where we do, too. The Present Professor is dedicated to that proposition, and to helping educators build that transformational space.
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Meeting Information & Registration
The book club meetings will be held virtually via Zoom! We will be discussing all aspects of the book, so each session will be different.
You don't have to read the book to attend! This is just a group of people interested in lifelong learning and supporting students and new approaches to teaching!
Meeting dates and times:
- Wednesday, February 23 @ 1pm (chapters 1-4)
- Wednesday, March 23 @ 1pm (chapters 5-8)
- Wednesday, April 20 @ 1pm (chapters 9-12, wrap-up)