inspiring your students to read their textbooks. nvcc
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Inspiring Your Students to Read Their Textbooks
NVCC
Impact
- 60%
Romney
Obama
Campus
Enrollment
Students
Neighbor
Faculty
John & Ian
Mutual Value
Conference
Mutual Activity
Conference Talk
Mutual Topic
“People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.”
“Professors of the same discipline seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but when they do the conversation ends in a discussion about their students and textbooks…”
Problem
Mutual Inspiration
No Textbook
John & Ian
John & Ian
John
Ian
Heroes
Unexpected
Accuracy
Completeness
Efficacy
Quality
Agreement
Global Brand
Textbook
• 93.9% < 2 hours/week– 395 FT undergraduates in two Midwestern universities
• 219 teacher ed degree (29 grad students)• 176 in non-teacher majors
Reading
When
• before exams – 40% complete their reading assignments when preparing
for exams
Misunderstanding
• reading assignment – anyone… anyone?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxPVyieptwA
Fallacy
• magic textbook– which book do you use?
What Now
Insight
Motivation
Boring
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_6GUx1Zx0w
Motivation
http://www.slideshare.net/cliotech/teaching-for-rigor-and-relevance
Pedagogy
Mutual Inspiration
Assignment
Motivate students to read their textbook
Relate to our students’ lives
Provide rigorous real world application
Motivation
Demonstration
What’s Next
Inspire
