Creating Significant Learning Experiences, Revised and Updated

CHAPTER FIVE

CHANGING THE WAY WE TEACH

In the first chapter of this book I issued an invitation to readers to consider changing the way they think about teaching. In the next three chapters I laid out some ideas on significant learning and integrated course design to provide content and direction for this new way of thinking. However, teachers who are ready to respond to this invitation will still face a number of important questions associated with the process of making substantial changes in the way they teach:

Question One: Is it really possible to change my teaching in a way that will both achieve the kinds of learning described in the taxonomy of significant learning and build the kinds of courses that exemplify the principles of good course ...