A Guide to Teaching Introductory Women's and Gender Studies: Socially Engaged Classrooms
Intro -- Acknowledgments -- About This Book -- Contents -- About the Authors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Approaching the Course -- 1.2 Where We're Coming from -- 1.3 Context and Theoretical Frame -- 1.4 The Intro Course Today -- 1.5 Who Students Are Now -- 1.6 How to Use This Book -- Works Cited -- 2 Principles for Crafting Your Course and Classroom Environment -- 2.1 Principles of Design and Questions for Consideration -- 2.2 Learning Outcomes -- 2.3 Crafting the Course: Course Design -- 2.4 Cultivating a Teacherly Persona -- 2.5 Crafting a Classroom Environment -- 2.6 Course Policies and Classroom Climate -- 2.7 Key Themes and Crafting Your Course -- 2.8 Principles for Crafting Your Course: Divergent Entry Points -- 2.9 Principles for Crafting Your Course and Macro-Thinking -- 2.10 Principles for Crafting Your Course and Affective Learning -- 2.11 Principles for Crafting Your Course and New Language -- Works Cited -- 3 Creating Effective Classrooms: Curriculum, Pedagogy and Course Materials -- 3.1 Choosing Course Materials -- 3.2 Considering Textbooks and Readers -- 3.3 Beyond Textbooks -- 3.4 Designing Pedagogical Activities that Flow from Our Values and Facilitate Student Learning -- 3.5 Learning Roadblocks -- 3.6 Anticipating and Addressing Learning Roadblocks -- 3.7 Working Through Learning Roadblocks: Case Studies -- Works Cited -- 4 Student Learning and Principles for Assessment -- 4.1 Assessment(s) Defined -- 4.2 Reclaiming Assessment -- 4.3 Building on Pedagogy and Curriculum -- 4.4 Recommendations for Designing Effective Assessments -- 4.5 Evaluating Student Work -- 4.6 Making Student Learning Visible: Charting Growth in Learning Domains -- Works Cited -- 5 Annotated Examples of Assessments and Rubrics -- 5.1 Skills Assessment 1: Social Construction of Gender.