Unforgettable

by W Michael Gray

Overview

We have an uneasy relationship with the relentless deluge of information gushing out of academia and our media outlets. To turn it off is escapist, but to attempt to cognitively grapple with it is overwhelming. In Unforgettable: Enabling Deep and Durable Learning, a nationally recognized master teacher gives professors and their students the means to chart a clear path through this information explosion. Humans crave explanatory patterns, and this book enables teachers to think deeply about their academic disciplines to find and articulate their core explanatory principles and to engage their students in a compelling way of thinking. An alternative title for this book could be Why the Best College Teachers Do What They Do because the author articulates a compelling rationale that will equip faculty to create and deliver transformative courses. Students in transformative courses grapple with essential questions and gain mental muscle that equips them for real world challenges.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781532600135
Publisher:	Resource Publications (CA)
Publication date:	10/12/2016
Pages:	302
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

W. Michael Gray is professor and chair of the Department of Biology, Bob Jones University, Greenville, South Carolina. His teaching philosophy has been honed through a forty-year career in higher education, during which he has been recognized twice in Who's Who in American Education and three times in Who's Who Among America's Teachers. He is the founder and director of a faculty development program called the Summer Institute in Teaching Science that recently completed its twelfth summer.

Table of Contents

Preface ix

Acknowledgments xv

Introduction xvii

1 Teaching for Transformation 1

2 Becoming a Clear-Thinking Teacher 16

3 Thinking Like an Expert 29

4 Developing and Clarifying Your Ideas 61

5 Explanatory Power 96

6 This Is the Way: Designing the Optimal Learning Path 121

7 Student Flourishing 145

8 Ask, Don't Tell 173

9 Speaking Truth in Love: Assessment as Communication 204

10 Averting Disaster 247

Appendix 1 The Logic of a Chef 261

Appendix 2 Richard Paul's eight elements of thought compared with my approach 263

Appendix 3 Gowin's Knowledge Vee 266

Appendix 4 Socratic GPS 267

Appendix 5 Assessment in Course Design 268

Bibliography 269