Transforming Your Students into Deep Learners: A Guide for Instructors

This title is intended as a follow-up to Achieving Excellence in Teaching: A Self-help Guide (2014). In Chapter Three of the latter, the authors posited deep learning the major goal of higher education. This book elaborates on the concept of deep learning and offers a rationale for why K-12 students have difficulty with college teaching-overcoming the learning gap. To help concerned instructors instill deep learning in their students, the book provides the Excellent Eight, specific strategies based on recent research and experience.

BACKGROUND TO DEEP LEARNING / 1
01. Introduction / 3
02. Deep Learning vs. Surface Learning / 7
03. The Making of Academic Surfers: Characteristics of Today's
Entering College Students and Culture That Hinder Deep Learning / 15
04. The Learning Gap / 25

EIGHT EXCELLENT STRATEGIES FOR DEEP LEARNING: Using BRIDLE / 27
05. STRATEGY I: Climbing Bloom's Staircase / 29
06. STRATEGY II: Presenting for Deep Learning / 37
07. STRATEGY III: Facilitating Retrieving for Deep Learning / 45
08. STRATEGY IV: Fostering Metacognition for Deep Learning / 53
09. STRATEGY V: Developing Critical Thinking for Deep Learning / 63
10. STRATEGY VI: Employing Deep Reading for Deep Learning / 73
11. STRATEGY VII: Creating Spaces for Deep Learning / 79
12. STRATEGY VIII: Motivating Students to be Deep Learners / 85

HONING YOUR SKILLS 93
13. Conclusion / 95
14. Appendix A: BRIDLE: A Systematic Plan for Self-Improvement in Promoting Deep Learning / 97
15. Appendix B: A Selected, Partially Annotated Bibliography / 103
16. Appendix C: ARTS, A Student Learning Skills Inventory / 109

About the Authors / 111