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Information Literacy & First Year Students: Programmatic Instructional Approaches & Assessment, Sally Neal, Sarah Lowe, Catherine Pellegrino, Bill Orme, Sean Stone Dec 2015

Information Literacy & First Year Students: Programmatic Instructional Approaches & Assessment, Sally Neal, Sarah Lowe, Catherine Pellegrino, Bill Orme, Sean Stone

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Integrating Math And Literature In The Elementary Classroom, Megan Maureen Boebinger Apr 2015

Integrating Math And Literature In The Elementary Classroom, Megan Maureen Boebinger

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Growing up, I was the student who hated to go to math class. I was not bad at math, I just could not seem to find a way to make it interesting or exciting. I had trouble understanding the purpose of math and how it was applicable to my own life. Word problems were my worst enemy; I appreciated the attempt to make math seem relatable, but never saw the use. Many of these problems involved building or buying something; topics I had no experience with in elementary school. I did not see why I needed to know the exact …


North Central Sociological Association 2014 Teaching Address: The John F. Schnabel Lecture—Sociology’S Special Pedagogical Challenge, Jay R. Howard Jan 2015

North Central Sociological Association 2014 Teaching Address: The John F. Schnabel Lecture—Sociology’S Special Pedagogical Challenge, Jay R. Howard

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Instructors and students must overcome a course’s special pedagogical challenge in order for meaningful and important learning to occur. While some suggest that the special pedagogical problem varies by course, I contend that the special pedagogical problem is likely to be shared across a discipline’s curriculum, rather than being unique to each course. After reviewing a three-part typology of learning outcomes for sociology, I argue that the development of students’ sociological imaginations is sociology’s special pedagogical challenge; I then offer some general guidelines for teaching strategies to enhance the students’ success in developing a sociological imagination.