Starting this fall, faculty members will have the rare chance to both learn and share in informed conversations with their colleagues from around the college. The topic of these conversations will be cognitive science and how it applies to your classroom and to all classrooms. This yearlong series of conversations will focus on the book Why Don’t Students Like School? A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions about How the Mind Works and What It Means for Your Classroom. The author is Daniel T. Willingham, professor of psychology at the University of Virginia. Willingham, who is well known for his column Ask the Cognitive Scientist in the American Educator, will cap this series in person with a lecture-workshop at MCC on June 10, 2011.
The book’s chapters are organized around provocative questions, such as: “Why Do Students Remember Everything That’s on Television and Forget Everything I Say?”; “Why Is It So Hard for Students to Understand Abstract Ideas?”; and “What’s the Secret to Getting Students to Think Like Real Scientists, Mathematicians, and Historians?”
Copies of the book are available to faculty members who wish to share in these conversations. Supplies are plentiful but not endless.
Brighton faculty who would like a copy should follow this link to the Teaching & Creativity Center: https://web.monroecc.edu/TCC/events. The book will be sent to them through interoffice mail.
Damon faculty may pick up a copy at the Damon library.
Each conversation will focus on one or two of the chapters. Dates and topics for each conversation will be announced later.
Questions? Contact Gene Marino <mailto:emarino@monroecc.edu> or Maryann Marino <mailto:mmarino@monroecc.edu>.
Gene Marino
Transitional Studies
05/26/2010 |