Product DescriptionIn the changing context of higher education, faculty, instructional developers, and administrators must seek innovative ways to approach the complexity of teaching and learning. The alignment model suggests that for teachers to be effective in achieving learning goals, they must engage in an ongoing process of aligning the content, themselves, and students in a specific context.
Aligning for Learning combines the alignment model with the authors’ years of experience as instructors, instructional developers, and administrators to produce a practical volume on teaching and learning that contains ideas applicable to a variety of institutions and instructional settings.
Divided into five parts, this book:
• Explains the alignment model of teaching effectiveness • Addresses the importance of inclusive teaching and learning, the use of the alignment model in designing courses, using assessment in support of alignment, and alignment issues in evaluation • Illustrates the application of alignment in various instructional contexts, such as large classes, team teaching, and mentoring • Demonstrates how the alignment model can be used to advance the scholarship of teaching and learning and its role in faculty reward systems • Provides key considerations in the application of alignment and some thoughts on the future use of the alignment model
