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PublisherTaylor & Francis Group

ISBN-101620366975

ISBN-139781620366974

eBay Product ID (ePID)240113931

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Number of Pages200 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameCreating Wicked Students : Designing Courses for a Complex World

Publication Year2018

SubjectEducational Psychology, Decision-Making & Problem Solving, Curricula, Higher, Teaching Methods & Materials / General

TypeTextbook

AuthorPaul Hanstedt

Subject AreaEducation

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Weight9.7 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN2017-042998

ReviewsThis book could be useful as an introduction to course design for someone less familiar with the fundamentals, such as how to develop measurable learning outcomes, align course goals with institutional goals, nest content within higher-order goals, engage students' prior knowledge, or incorporate applied learning. The structure of the book allows for one to follow it step-by-step as a course design manual, and it also includes recursive 'intermissions' to encourage reflection along the way. In addition, his discussion of how to prompt critical thinking through multiple-choice exams offers helpful strategies for encouraging students to explain their thinking on ambiguous questions with follow-up questions that explain or justify their choice., Paul Hanstedt is a teacher's teacher. He approaches the college classroom with a combination of excitement, experience, skill, and humor. His goal - to create 'wicked' students, ready to face the daunting challenges of the twenty-first century - is right on point. And his strategies and recommendations are clear, practical and instructive. I can't wait to share this highly readable and valuable book with my colleagues., Paul Hanstedt is a teacher's teacher. He approaches the college classroom with a combination of excitement, experience, skill and humor. His goal - to create 'wicked' students, ready to face the daunting challenges of the 21st century - is right on point. And his strategies and recommendations are clear, practical and instructive. I can't wait to share this highly readable and valuable book with my colleagues., CreatingWicked Students is one of the best books I have read in the last decade. I am amid-career teacher educator and scholar in an English department, and I wish Ihad read this book when I was a doctoral student. Nevertheless, thisoutstanding text has a lot to offer for all scholars trying to adapt tochanging technologies and learner populations, providing innovative andpractical strategies for course design. The main argument of the book centers around the idea that we livein a changing, unpredictable world where the demands and expectations placed ongraduates are constantly changing. According to Hanstedt, 'we need wickedgraduates with wicked competencies', which he argues are developed whenstudents are provided with opportunities to apply and use information instead ofjust receiving it. In a highly accessible and reader-friendly way, Hanstedtexplains how this is done. He innovativelyillustrates how to build such measurable, clear, and meaningful goals forlearning outcomes. In conclusion, [this] is amust-read for anyone teaching at the college level. The book providesincredibly useful information not only for current faculty but also fordoctoral students who will soon assume faculty positions. Paul Hanstedtprovides a compelling and thoughtful argument throughout the book that we,college instructors, need to reconsider the skills, goals, concepts, teachingmethods, and assessment techniques in our classrooms so that our students, nomatter what field they are in, are equipped with the skills, strategies, and knowledgenecessary to face the daunting challenges of life after college., From its playful title to its final chapter, Creating Wicked Students offers a thought-provoking new approach to course design focused on helping college students develop the abilities and self-authorship needed to work -and live--meaningfully. Hanstedt guides the reader through a design process for courses where students learn skills and content, but more significantly, develop 'the ability to step into a complex, messy world and interact with that world in thoughtful and productive ways., From its playful title to its final chapter, Creating Wicked Students offers a thought-provoking new approach to course design focused on helping college students develop the abilities and self-authorship needed to work -and live--meaningfully. Hanstedt guides the reader through a design process for courses where students learn skills and content, but more significantly, develop 'the ability to step into a complex, messy world and interact with that world in thoughtful and productive ways'., "Hanstedt's Creating Wicked Students is, as they say in Boston, "wicked good"--a clear, clever, and creative step-by-step guide to creating courses that help shape students who are ready to engage with and make a positive impact on the world in which we live.", I consider myself an experienced professor,and I put a lot of work and time into designing and redesigning my coursesevery semester; however, Creating Wicked Students: Designing Courses for aComplex World opened my eyes to how I can improve my classes and betterprepare my students to be creative, critical, and contributing members of a particularfield and of society at large; in other words, how to be 'wicked students.' Mosteducators want students to participate in life in 'thoughtful and constructiveways, and Paul Hanstedt provides readers with valuable resources and guidelinesfor doing just that at the course level. He focuses on giving studentsauthority through 'authorship, the ability to write and rewrite, shape, andcreate'. Our courses, he contends, must be training grounds for students topractice authority while they are learning, not delaying the practice for whenthey graduate. Thus, this book is intended to help instructors design coursesthat 'develop students' capacity to be engaged and deliberate citizens' who 'engagein meaningful dialogue with the larger sociopolitical contexts beyond college'.Chapters are scaffolded to address course design issues as a progression:goals, course structure, assignments, exams, pedagogical techniques, and assessment.There are even two stopping points in the book, Intermission chapters, thatencourage readers to pause, reflect on previous chapters, the exercises they'veworked through, and prepare for the next section. Hanstedt does a superb job of not lockingassignments into certain disciplines; he explains and shows how one assignmentin social sciences, for instance, can be modified to fit an English class. Bythe time readers reach the end of the book that includes six appendices withsix different assignments, it is easy to see how those assignments can berevised for almost any course a reader may teach., Creating Wicked Students places faculty members in the role of engaged learners where the skillful Dr. Paul Hanstedt guides them to construct curricula, courses and assignments that will prepare students to participate in the world in active and constructive ways. Faculty readers become Dr. Hanstedt's 'wicked students,' equipped to transfer the skills practiced in this book to challenge their own students to do their best work., "Hanstedt's conversational tone conjures feelings of sitting with a colleague sharing ideas, brainstorming, and exchanging stories over coffee with lots of laughs. At first, I didn't want to participate in the "Designing Your Course" sections. But by the first "Intermission" I was so inspired I was engaging in all activities, ideas pouring out as if attending a great conference. Hanstedt uses his own wicked design within his book, resulting in an overwhelming sense of authority for the reader, indeed demonstrating the power of wickedness.", A must-read for anyone who cares about educating the next generation of change agents. Hanstedt combines practical advice for all college teachers committed to learning outcomes that will help students thrive post-graduation with a thoughtful analysis of what our true jobs as educators should be in a world that is in flux, deeply inequitable, but also in need of many more wicked problem-solvers.

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal375.001

Table Of ContentAcknowledgements 1. Rethinking the Whole Student in Wicked Ways 2. Setting Goals for Our Courses 3. Structuring Wicked Courses Intermission 4. Creating Wicked Assignments 5. Creating Authoritative Exams 6. Day-to-Day Teaching Methods Intermission 7. Assessing Wickedness Conclusion Appendix A. Poster Project for English 322. Composition Theory and Practice Appendix B. Travel Film Assignment for First-year Seminar on Travel Literature Appendix C. Research Poster Assignment for Occupational Therapy Appendix D. Final Exam Take-Home Question on What Matters Appendix E. Mini-Group Essay Assignment for English 338. Victorian Literature Appendix F. Group Log for Mini-Group Essays References About the Author Index

SynopsisIn Creating Wicked Students, Paul Hanstedt argues that courses can and should be designed to present students with what are known as "wicked problems" because the skills of dealing with such knotty problems are what will best prepare them for life after college. As the author puts it, "this book begins with the assumption that what we all want for our students is that they be capable of changing the world....When a student leaves college, we want them to enter the world not as drones participating mindlessly in activities to which they've been appointed, but as thinking, deliberative beings who add something to society."There's a lot of talk in education these days about "wicked problems"--problems that defy traditional expectations or knowledge, problems that evolve over time: Zika, ISIS, political discourse in the era of social media. To prepare students for such wicked problems, they need to have wicked competencies, the ability to respond easily and on the fly to complex challenges. Unfortunately, a traditional education that focuses on content and skills often fails to achieve this sense of wickedness. Students memorize for the test, prepare for the paper, practice the various algorithms over and over again--but when the parameters or dynamics of the test or the paper or the equation change, students are often at a loss for how to adjust.This is a course design book centered on the idea that the goal in the college classroom--in all classrooms, all the time--is to develop students who are not just loaded with content, but capable of using that content in thoughtful, deliberate ways to make the world a better place. Achieving this goal requires a top-to-bottom reconsideration of courses, including student learning goals, text selection and course structure, day-to-day pedagogies, and assignment and project design. Creating Wicked Students takes readers through each step of the process, providing multiple examples at each stage, while always encouraging instructors to consider concepts and exercises in light of their own courses and students., In Creating Wicked Students , Paul Hanstedt argues that courses can and should be designed to present students with what are known as "wicked problems" because the skills of dealing with such knotty problems are what will best prepare them for life after college. As the author puts it, "this book begins with the assumption that what we all want for our students is that they be capable of changing the world....When a student leaves college, we want them to enter the world not as drones participating mindlessly in activities to which they've been appointed, but as thinking, deliberative beings who add something to society." There's a lot of talk in education these days about "wicked problems"--problems that defy traditional expectations or knowledge, problems that evolve over time: Zika, ISIS, political discourse in the era of social media. To prepare students for such wicked problems, they need to have wicked competencies, the ability to respond easily and on the fly to complex challenges. Unfortunately, a traditional education that focuses on content and skills often fails to achieve this sense of wickedness. Students memorize for the test, prepare for the paper, practice the various algorithms over and over again--but when the parameters or dynamics of the test or the paper or the equation change, students are often at a loss for how to adjust. This is a course design book centered on the idea that the goal in the college classroom--in all classrooms, all the time--is to develop students who are not just loaded with content, but capable of using that content in thoughtful, deliberate ways to make the world a better place. Achieving this goal requires a top-to-bottom reconsideration of courses, including student learning goals, text selection and course structure, day-to-day pedagogies, and assignment and project design. Creating Wicked Students takes readers through each step of the process, providing multiple examples at each stage, while always encouraging instructors to consider concepts and exercises in light of their own courses and students., In Creating Wicked Students, Paul Hanstedt argues that courses can and should be designed to present students with what are known as "wicked problems" because the skills of dealing with such knotty problems are what will best prepare them for life after college.

LC Classification NumberLB2395.35.H37 2018