CCLI proudly announces keynote speaker Terry Doyle. Terry is an author, nationally recognized educational consultant and Professor of Reading at Ferris State University where he has worked for the past 38 years. From 1998 to 2009 he served as the Senior Instructor for Faculty Development and Coordinator of the “New to Ferris Faculty Transition Program” for the Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning at Ferris State.
Terry’s “Learner-Centered Teaching” site, offers free teaching resources that can assist higher education faculty in moving from a teacher centered practice to a learner centered one.
Terry has presented over seventy workshops on teaching and learning topics at regional, national and international conferences since 2000. During the past five years he has worked with faculty in Taiwan, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, South Korea, Canada and faculty on one hundred and forty different colleges and universities across the United States on ways to develop a learner centered approach to teaching.
He is the author of the book Learner Centered Teaching: Putting the Research on Learning into Practice which was featured in the Chronicle of Higher Education’s Selected New Books in Higher Education in 2012 and the book Helping Students Learn in a Learner Center Environment: A Guide to Teaching in Higher Education which was just translated into Chinese for sale in China and published by Stylus, 2008. He is the co-author of the book New Faculty Transition – An Ideal Program published in 2004.
His newest book published in August 2013, co-authored with Dr. Todd Zakrajsek is titled The New Science of Learning: How to Learn in Harmony with your Brain and is written for college and high school students. It has been described as breaking new ground in helping students understand how learning happens and suggests a new paradigm for how students should prepare themselves for learning. The book was a finalist for the 2013 USA Best Book Award in the category of Education/Academic.
Terry’s will be speaking about “A New Paradigm for Student Learners“:
The challenges facing American Higher Education especially low graduation rates, cannot be solved by instructors, librarians, counselors and professional staff alone. If we could have done it alone the higher education community would be much closer to having the challenges under control if not resolved. The simple reason these challenges still exist, despite the higher education community having twenty years of brain research helping us bring our one to one and classroom approaches more into harmony with how the human brain learns is that students have such a powerful effect on whether learning happens little improvement can take place without their help.
So what is needed? It appears clear if educational outcomes are ever going to improve in the US, it is essential that our students, both those who struggle and those who do well, need to learn how to learn in harmony with their brains. This presentation will discuss how findings from the last fifteen years of neuroscience, cognitive science and biology research point clearly to a new paradigm for student learners. This new paradigm requires students to both prepare their brains for learning and learn to apply the findings on how the human brain learns best to their learning and studying practices. The specific actions students need to take to adopt this new paradigm will be shared in this talk.
Improving graduation rates as well as meeting other challenges facing higher education are likely only to occur if students take greater responsibility for being ready to learn and realize they must become equal partners in their own education. Educators have been trying to do it alone for the past twenty years with only limited progress to show for all the effort.