A project of LaGuardia Community College's Center for Teaching and Learning. Project Quantum Leap (PQL) seeks to develop new lessons and courses that focus on problem-solving and to integrate these into the developmental math curriculum. See lagcc tag for related bookmarks.
by Byron Pitts. New York : St. Martin's Press, 2009. Author outlines the disadvantages he overcame in the pursuit of his career. See pitts tag for related bookmarks.
Offered through LaGuardia Community College Center for Teaching and Learning, STM helps create partnerships between students and faculty to explore uses of digital media in the classroom. See lagcc tag for related bookmarks.
by James Paul Gee. In this book, the author considers more than thirty video games in his examination of their positive effects on learning. See gee tag for an article by this author.
Leadbeater is a "management thinker" and an "authority on innovation and creativity." This site contains links to his publications (most notably We-think) and his recent work. For more on Leadbeater, see the leadbeater tag.
Dr. Vincent Tinto is a professor in the School of Education at Syracuse University. His most recent book, Leaving College (also tagged), "lays out a theory and policy perspective on student success that is considered the benchmark by which work on these issues are judged."
By Doug Lemov, published by Jossey-Bass 2010. Lemov was featured in the New York Times article, Building a Better Teacher, March 2, 2010. See lemov tag for the article.
By Doug Lederman in the News column of Inside Higher Ed, Jan 25 2011. The Lumina Foundation has released a draft of their Degree Qualifications Profile (see link in article), with broad "degree objectives" for those who earn associate's, bachelor's and master's degrees. This article briefly describes the report and also provides some context, including some criticism from those who work in higher education. See degree_qualification tag for more.
On YouTube, posted July 2007. Episode 1 of Def Poetry Jam. Mali's poem looks at the role of the teacher. For related work by Taylor Mali, follow the mali tag.
The March 2011 webinar being presented by National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development (NISOD). STATWAY is an accelerated program "designed to take developmental students to and through a college credit-bearing, transferable math course in one year." Follow the statway tag for more.
Webinar will be held March 30, 2011.