Valuing teaching and teaching values.

Gentle Teaching: A Value Based Framework for Helping Others

This paper describes a non-aversive behavior management approach called gentle teaching and details supportive techniques of the approach. Principles of gentle teaching ;Ire explained, including unconditional valuing of individuals (shown by verbal valuing, gestural valuing, arid physical valuing); value reciprocation; and behavioral involvement (shown by co-participation in meaningful tasks). ...

Validation and Application of the Survey of Teaching Beliefs and Practices for Undergraduates (STEP-U): Identifying Factors Associated with Valuing Important Workplace Skills among Biology Students

We present a novel assessment tool for measuring biology students' values and experiences across their undergraduate degree program. Our Survey of Teaching Beliefs and Practices for Undergraduates (STEP-U) assesses the extent to which students value skills needed for the workplace (e.g., ability to work in groups) and their experiences with teaching practices purported to promote such skills (e...

Valuing and Evaluating Teaching in Academic Hiring: A Multidisciplinary, Cross-Institutional Study

A Comparison of a Visual-spatial Approach and a Verbal Approach to Teaching Mathematics

Despite mathematicians valuing the ability to visualize a problem and psychologists finding positive correlations of visual-spatial ability with success in mathematics, many educationists remain unconvinced about the benefits of visualization for mathematical understanding. This paper describes research that compared a ‘visual’ to a ‘verbal’ teaching approach through teaching a range of early s...

Teaching public health through a pedagogy of collegiality.

Curriculum development in masters of public health programs that effectively meets the complex challenges of the 21st century is an important part of public health education and requires purposeful thinking. Current approaches to training the public health work-force do not adequately prepare professionals to be culturally competent in addressing health disparities. Principles of community-base...