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Inspiring Your S tudents to Read Their Textbooks. NVCC. Impact. - 60%. Romney. Obama. C ampus. E nrollment. S tudents. N eighbor. F aculty. J ohn & Ian. M utual V alue . C onference. M utual A ctivity . C onference T alk. M utual T opic.
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Impact - 60%
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…”
Reading • 93.9% < 2 hours/week • 395 FT undergraduates in two Midwestern universities • 219 teacher ed degree (29 grad students) • 176 in non-teacher majors
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?
Boring http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_6GUx1Zx0w
Motivation http://www.slideshare.net/cliotech/teaching-for-rigor-and-relevance
Assignment Motivate students to read their textbook Relate to our students’ lives Provide rigorous real world application
Questions? Ian Taylor itaylor@nvcc.edu John Min jmin@nvcc.edu