Inspiring Your Students to Read Their Textbooks

NVCC

Impact

- 60%

Romney

Obama

Campus

Enrollment

Students

Neighbor

Faculty

John & Ian

Mutual Value

Conference

Mutual Activity

Conference Talk

Mutual Topic

“People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.”

“Professors of the same discipline seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but when they do the conversation ends in a discussion about their students and textbooks…”

Problem

Mutual Inspiration

No Textbook

John & Ian

John & Ian

John

Ian

Heroes

Unexpected

Accuracy

Completeness

Efficacy

Quality

Agreement

Global Brand

Textbook

• 93.9% < 2 hours/week– 395 FT undergraduates in two Midwestern universities

• 219 teacher ed degree (29 grad students)• 176 in non-teacher majors

Reading

When

• before exams – 40% complete their reading assignments when preparing

for exams

Misunderstanding

• reading assignment – anyone… anyone?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxPVyieptwA

Fallacy

• magic textbook– which book do you use?

What Now

Insight

Motivation

Boring

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_6GUx1Zx0w

Motivation

http://www.slideshare.net/cliotech/teaching-for-rigor-and-relevance

Pedagogy

Mutual Inspiration

Assignment

Motivate students to read their textbook

Relate to our students’ lives

Provide rigorous real world application

Motivation

Demonstration

What’s Next

Inspire

Questions?

John Minjmin@nvcc.edu

Ian Tayloritaylor@nvcc.edu