{"product_id":"teaching-in-practice-isbn-9780787901288","title":"Teaching in Practice","description":"Teaching in Practice offers a range of practical methods for teaching and facilitating learning geared to the day-to-day realities encountered by professionals in the human services. Drawing on the literature of adult education and on a wealth of practical examples from different kinds of professional, practice Farquharson provides a wide range of conceptual models for improving teaching in human service practice. 1. Teaching and Learning as Facets of Professional Practice.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 2. Viewing Clients and Patients as Learners.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 3. Developing Learning Relationships with Clients, Patients, andColleagues.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 4. Becoming Skilled at Group Facilitation.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 5. Assessing What Needs to Be Learned.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 6. Teaching Effectively--Spontaneously and By Design.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 7. Selecting Resources and Activities to Support Teaching.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 8. Using Evaluation to Enhance Effectiveness.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 9. Helping Through Teaching: Enhancing Professional Practice. \"Here is a book I have been waiting for for a long time a clearly written, theoretically sound, and up-to-date helpmate for workers at all levels. Farquharson's enthusiasm for the idea that the most potent tool in human service practice is the facilitation of lifelong learning is contagious.\" (Malcolm S. Knowles, professor emeritus, North Carolina State University) ANDY FARQUHARSON is a professor in the School of Social Work and director of the Learning and Teaching Centre at the University of Victoria, Vancouver Island, B.C., Canada. He has consulted widely on issues of adult learning and self-help groups. This book offers a range of practical methods for teaching and facilitating learning geared to the day-to-day realities encountered by professionals in the human services. Drawing on the literature of adult education and on a wealth of practical examples from different kinds of professional practice--including nursing and medicine, community education, social work, and psychology--Farquhason provides a wide range of conceptual models for improving teaching in human service practice.  He provides professionals with the tools to identify the broad variety of teaching opportunities that are present in their daily practice, and he shows them how they can improve the effectiveness of that teaching. Farquharson also includes practical advice on assessing learning needs, designing motivating learning experiences, and improving facilitation skills so that people can become partners in and directors of their own learning. Drawing on the literature of adult education and on a wealth of practical examples from different kinds of professional practice--including nursing and medicine, community education, social work, and psychology--Farquhason provides a wide range of conceptual models for improving teaching in human service practice. The author's practical methods are geared to the day-to-day realities encountered by professionals in the human services.","brand":"Jossey-Bass","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990136733925,"sku":"NP9780787901288","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780787901288.jpg?v=1761786643","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/teaching-in-practice-isbn-9780787901288","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}