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Share your thoughts with other customers. Write a product review. Most helpful customer reviews on Amazon. This book was a required text for t a PhD Teaching Principles and Methods seminar - basically, teaching soon-to-be instructors how to teach in higher education. One major focus of the seminar was the composition and execution of a course syllabus in a class setting. This work provided some helpful insights into the composition of a syllabus focused more on student learning, rather than course content or even instructor performance.

This work has several examples for each potential component an instructor might decide to include in his or her syllabus.

I run an annual conference and a sub-group of this conference is a Doctoral Institute for near-graduate or just-graduated PhDs. This book was one of our gifts to them in their mission to become leading educators in the collegiate classroom. I highly suggest this book if you are a junior academic, or have one in your family. This is a concise guide to creating syllabi that encourage students to engage in course content and take advantage of resources available to them.

I have used suggestions from this book for several courses over the past six years.

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My students find that a syllabus based on suggestions in the book helps them organize their approach to the course and establish goals for learning. Administrative critiques of my syllabi routinely note clarity of purpose and thoroughness--important aspects for the age of learner-centered paradigms.

Examples in the book cover a range of disciplines and course formats. This is a great resource for new and seasoned faculty alike. After nearly ten years in academia and completing a one-year higher education certification program during my doctoral studies, this book gave me loads of new ideas for my syllabi. I likely added another one to two pages to my 'standard' syllabi text, all of which I believe makes my syllabus a much stronger learning tool without adding any fluff material.

The lengthy 'examples' section helped a lot and I took some of the basic ideas presented there and tailored them to my courses. If you're a new faculty member trying to develop new syllabi, a mid-career professor seeking to improve your work especially before department review , or a veteran faculty member hoping to improve your courses, this book will have something for you.

Helpful book for new or just starting out professors.

Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations. View or edit your browsing history. Get to Know Us. Delivery and Returns see our delivery rates and policies thinking of returning an item? See our Returns Policy. Visit our Help Pages. When it was first published in , The Course Syllabus became the gold standard reference for both new and experienced college faculty. Like the first edition, this book is based on a learner-centered approach. Because faculty members are now deeply committed to engaging students in learning, the syllabus has evolved into a useful, if lengthy, document.

Today's syllabus When it was first published in , The Course Syllabus became the gold standard reference for both new and experienced college faculty. Today's syllabus provides details about course objectives, requirements and expectations, and also includes information about teaching philosophies, specific activities and the rationale for their use, and tools essential to student success. Paperback , pages. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up.

To ask other readers questions about The Course Syllabus , please sign up. How can i access to read the book? See 1 question about The Course Syllabus…. Lists with This Book. This book is not yet featured on Listopia. Jun 22, Tiffany rated it it was amazing.

I am so glad that I read this as I prepare to rewrite my syllabi. Lots of great insight into reworking my courses to accommodate today's students and help myself become more of a facilitator than a lecturer. Jun 05, Lars De Richter rated it liked it. Some good ideas, but overall the information was very general and it did not really answer my questions on this subject. The bibliography has an interesting overview of books on curriculum and syllabus development, a pity it had very few annotations.

Apr 26, Michael Evans rated it liked it. If you write your syllabus as this book suggests, prepare to drop a tome on students' laps. The book contains many great principles, but doesn't do a good job of prioritizing them. Oct 29, Maya rated it really liked it Shelves: I read this book in one hour. It gives a good overview of how to write a good syllabus. But what made me give it 4 stars was all the examples included in the book.

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Jul 11, Holly rated it it was amazing. Excellent place to begin to create the change in your classroom to move to serious active learning and teaching. Robin rated it really liked it Dec 07, Erin rated it it was ok Dec 29, Carlito rated it it was amazing Mar 28, Dee rated it liked it Jun 27, Johnathon Bowers rated it liked it Mar 12,