Student-Assisted Teaching A Guide to Faculty-Student Teamwork

by Miller, Judith E.; Groccia, James E.; Miller, Marilyn S.

• ISBN13: 9781882982424
• ISBN10: 1882982428
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-01-15
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass

Summary

This innovative handbook provides a range of models for undergraduate student-assisted teaching partnerships to help faculty, faculty developers, and administrators make learning more student-centered, more effective, and more productive.Each of the 31 models included in this volume is supported by practical details and focuses on four main aspects of a specific peer-assisted learning environment: implementation, evidence of effectiveness and learning benefits, analysis of time and cost expenditures, and suggestions for replication. Contents include discussions of working with undergraduate partners in several areas: Programs for first-year students Difficult courses Special groups Courses and programs for all students Faculty developmentThe chapters present a range of approaches, applications, disciplines, institutions, and contexts, and demonstrate that student-faculty partnerships can be adapted to meet diverse needs in a variety of situations. Extensive appendices aid implementation by providing concrete examples of hiring documents, training syllabi, teaching materials, and evaluation methods.

Author Biography

JUDITH E. MILLER is Director of Educational development, Technology, and Assessment, and Professor of Biology and Biotechnology at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. She has published and presented extensively in the areas of cooperative learning and educational productivity. She received the Outstanding Undergraduate Science Teacher award from the Society for College Science teachers and Kendall-Hunt Publishers in 1997.

JAMES E. GROCCIA is Director of the Program for Excellence in Teaching Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology, and a member of the Graduate faculty in Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis at the University of Missouri-Columbia. His teaching and research interests, center on student-assisted learning, college teaching, educational innovation and productivity, and cross-cultural psychology.

MARILYN S. MILLER is Assistant Director of the Program for Excellence in Teaching, and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis at the University of Missouri-Columbia. She has presented nationally on issues of communication across linguistic and cultural lines, and the role of inactive learning in compensating for linguistic difficulties of foreign instructors and students.

Table of Contents

About the Editors	vi
Foreword	xi
Preface	xiii
Introduction	xv
Model Matrix	xx
Part I: Undergraduate Students Assisting with Programs for First-Year Students
Establishing a Common Ground: A Conjoint Training Model for Instructors and Peer Educators	2	(6)
Eve M. Adams
Susan C. Brown
Terry L. Cook
Lessons From Peers: The Design Exchange	8	(7)
Mark J. Chidister
Frank H. Bell Jr.
Kurt M. Earnest
Peer Teaching in the Experimental College	15	(6)
Robyn Gittleman
Howard Woolf
Peer Facilitators as Lead Freshman Seminar Instructors	21	(6)
Jean M. Henscheid
The Teaching Teams Program: A ``Just-in-Time'' Model for Peer Assistance	27	(7)
Harold P. Larson
Reed Mencke
Stacy J. Tollefson
Elizabeth Harrison
Elena Berman
The Teaching Teams Program: Transforming the Role of the Graduate Teaching Assistant	34	(6)
David A. Wood Jr.
Jennifer L. Hart
Stacy J. Tollefson
Dawn E. DeToro
Julie Libarkin
The Teaching Teams Program: Empowering Undergraduates in a Student-Centered Research University	40	(4)
Lacey A. Stover
Kirstin A. Story
Amanda M. Skousen
Cynthia E. Jacks
Heather Logan
Benjamin T. Bush
Peer-Assisted Cooperative Learning: An Experiment in Educational Quality and Productivity	44	(6)
Judith E. Miller
David DiBiasio
John Minasian
James S. Catterall
Students: Managing to Learn; Teachers: Learning to Manage	50	(6)
Martin H. Murray
Undergraduates Teaching in a Collaborative Learning Paradigm	56	(6)
Samuel B. Thompson
Sarah B. Westfall
Christine Reimers
Peers at Work: Tutors at Spelman College	62	(7)
Anne B. Warner
Christine K. Farris
Students Mentoring Students in Portfolio Development	69	(8)
W. Alan Wright
Bruce Barton
Part II: Undergraduate Students Assisting with Difficult Courses
The Experimental Study Group: An Alternative First-Year Program at MIT	77	(5)
David Custer
Peter Dourmashkin
MASH (Math and Science Help): Supplemental Instruction at a Technological University	82	(5)
Ann Garvin
Dale Snyder
Undergraduate Peer Mentors in Mathematics	87	(4)
Miguel Paredes
Paul Pontius
Rene Torres
Joseph Chance
A Model for Integrating Technical Preceptors into the Classroom	91	(7)
Mary Poulton
John Kemeny
Academic Excellence Workshops: Boosting Success in Technical Courses	98	(5)
Ruth A. Streveler
Supplemental Instruction at an Urban Community College	103	(7)
Joyce Ship Zaritsky
Part III: Undergraduate Students Assisting with Special Groups
Peer-Assisted Teaching and Learning in Distance Education	110	(6)
Judith A. Couchman
Using Structured Study Groups to Create Chemistry Honors Sections	116	(7)
Brian P. Coppola
Douglas S. Daniels
Jason K. Pontrello
Student Mentoring and Community in a University Honors Program	123	(4)
Ronald E. Mickel
Where Undergraduates are the Experts: Peer-Based Instruction in the Writing Center	127	(7)
Dennis Paoli
Eric Hobson
Part IV: Undergraduate Students Assisting in Courses and Programs for All Students
Peer Facilitators of In-Class Groups: Adapting Problem-Based Learning to the Undergraduate Setting	134	(6)
Deborah E. Allen
Harold B. White III
Student-Directed Instruction in an Undergraduate Psychopathology Course	140	(5)
Cheryl Golden
Calverta McMorris
Peer Writing Tutors	145	(5)
Lisa Lebduska
The Workshop Project: Peer-Led Team Learning in Chemistry	150	(6)
Jerry L. Sarquis
Linda J. Dixon
David K. Gosser
Jack A. Kampmeier
Vicki Roth
Victor S. Strozak
Pratibha Varma-Nelson
An Introductory Psychology Laboratory Designed and Taught by Undergraduate Teaching Interns	156	(5)
Stephen P. Stelzner
Michael G. Livingston
Thomas Creed
Undergraduate Teaching Assistants Bring Active Learning to Class	161	(7)
Melissa A. Thibodeau
Part V: Undergraduate Students Assisting in Faculty Development
Student-Faculty Partnerships to Develop Teaching and Enhance Learning	168	(4)
Milton D. Cox
Educating the Critic: Student-Driven Quality	172	(7)
Elizabeth Kinland
Lisa Firing Lenze
Lynn Melander Moore
Larry D. Spence
College Teachers and Student Consultants: Collaborating about Teaching and Learning	179	(38)
D. Lynn Sorenson
Conclusion: Issues to Consider in Implementing a Student-Assisted Teaching Model	184	(4)
Appendices
Appendix A: Hiring Documents
Letter of Invitation to Prospective Peer Mentors	188	(1)
Chidister
Bell
Earnest
Peer Assistant Job Description	188	(1)
Chidister
Bell
Earnest
Thibodeau
Peer Assistant Job Application	189	(1)
Adams
Brown
Cook
Thibodeau
Zaritsky
Peer Assistant Interview Questions	190	(1)
Adams
Brown
Cook
Miller
DiBiasio
Mimasian
Catterall
Sarquis
Dixon
Gosser
Kampmeier
Roth
Strozak
Varma-Nelson
SI Leader Contract	190	(2)
Murray
Zaritsky
Appendix B: Training Syllabi
SI Training Program	192	(1)
Murray
FIG Leadership Seminar Syllabus	193	(2)
Thompson
Westfall
Reimers
Syllabus for UNIV 350 Peer Education	195	(1)
Adams
Brown
Cook
Peer Educator/Instructor Conjoint Training Discussion Questions	196	(2)
Adams
Brown
Cook
Appendix C: Teaching Materials
Application for Student Participation in Academic Excellence Workshop	198	(1)
Streveler
SI Session Planning Log	199	(1)
Zaritsky
UNIV 150 Class Feedback and Planning Form	199	(1)
Adams
Brown
Cook
Interview Procedure for Students Consulting on Teaching	200	(2)
Sorenson
Appendix D: Evaluation Procedures
Supplemental Instruction Observation Record	202	(1)
Stelzner
Livingston
Creed
Zaritsky
Faculty-UTA Review of UTA	203	(1)
Thibodeau
Student Evaluation of Peer Facilitator	204	(1)
Allen
White
Student Evaluation of UTA	205	(1)
Thibodeau
Student Evaluation of Supplemental Instruction	206	(1)
Couchman Garvin
Snyder
Streveler
Zaritsky
Peer Educator Evaluation of Training	207	(1)
Adams
Brown
Cook
Peer Educator Evaluation of UNIV 150/UNIV 350	208	(1)
Adams
Brown
Cook
Peer Facilitator Evaluation of Workshop Experience	208	(1)
Streveler
Teaching Teams Preceptor Questionnaire	209	(2)
Stover
Story
Skousen
Jacks
Logan
Bush
Teaching Teams GTA Questionnaire	211	(3)
Wood
Hart
Tollefson
DeToro
Libarkin
Teaching Teams Instructor Questionnaire	214	(3)
Larson
Mencke
Tollefson
Harrison
Berman
Bibliography	217	(8)
Index	225