Interested in learning about our Penn State York Faculty Learning Community?
Fall 2019
Thanks for joining our Faculty Learning Community this semester as we read and discuss the role of emotions in teaching in learning using the text The Spark of Learning: Energizing the College Classroom with the Science of Emotion by Sarah Rose Cavanagh.
All meetings will be held in the library conference room from noon until 1:15 p.m., with coffee and refreshments
The Spark of Learning: Energizing the College Classroom with the Science of Emotion
CONTENTS
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
PART 1: Foundations of Affective Science
CHAPTER 1
The Science (and Neuroscience) of Your Emotions
CHAPTER 2
The Wellspring: Emotions Enhance Learning
PART 2: Affective Science in Action
CHAPTER 3
Be the Spark: Crafting Your First (and Lasting) Impression
CHAPTER 4
Burning to Master: Mobilizing Student Efforts
CHAPTER 5
Fueling the Fire: Prolonging Student Persistence
CHAPTER 6
Best-Laid Plans: When Emotions Challenge or Backfire
CONCLUSION
- Participants will engage in critical discussion of the text.
- Participants will share activities and assignments they have tried in their classroom based on ideas from the text.
- Participants will practice strategies from the text to maximize their effectiveness in the classroom.
- Participants will explore using humor in their classrooms as a way to nudge students to a deeper understanding of the material.
- Participants will examine and identify emotions that will work best for them as instructors to engage their students.
- Participants will examine and identify the emotions they would like their students to experience in order to better engage with the material, with their classmates, and with the instructor.
Start thinking about a book for the spring semester! So far, we have the following suggestions:
Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning
The Missing Course: Everything They Never Taught You about College Teaching
Teaching as if Life Matters: The Promise of a New Education Culture