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 "One might
well say he has sold when no one has bought as to say he has
taught when no one has learned." John Dewey
Department/School:
Center for Learning and Teaching Excellence
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ 85287-0101
480.965.8645
Home Page:
http://www.public.asu.edu/
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Email:
susan.ledlow@asu.edu
Courses Taught:
Supervised Research in Psychology
Active Learning Strategies for the College Classroom
Effective Lecturing Strategies
Featured Materials:
Articles:
Cooperative Learning in Higher
Education
Five Issues to Be Considered in
Teambuilding
Tips for Climate Setting in the
Cooperative Learning Classroom
Pre-Designed
Content-Free Structures:
Roundrobin Brainstorming
Using Jigsaw in the College Classroom
Using Think-Pair-Share in the College
Classroom
Teambuilding
Activities:
Developing Team Groundrules
Plus/Delta Team Reflection
Roles and Gambits
Strategies for Helping Students
Develop Team Skills
Team Interview
Team Skills Self-Assessment
Your Experience with Teams
Sample Lesson
Planning Forms:
Planning Form for Cooperative Learning
Lessons and Activities |
Susan Ledlow is an Instructional
Professional at the Center for Learning and Teaching
Excellence at Arizona State University. She has been a
teacher in K-12, adult education, community college, and
university settings for 22 years and has been involved in
faculty and staff development for 17 years.
Susan directs of the Instructional Innovation Network
(http://bestpractice.net), a web-based resource designed to
help higher education faculty across the country to share
classroom strategies and materials. Much of Susan's work at
ASU involves providing workshops, seminars, and one-to-one
assistance to faculty in implementing active learning
strategies, especially cooperative learning and case
teaching. She also has expertise in team facilitation,
course and curriculum design and revision, grant-writing,
and classroom assessment. One of the most rewarding aspects
of her job is teaching Rookie Camp, a seminar that
introduces new faculty to resources and strategies for
teaching and learning at the university.
Susan’s academic discipline is social psychology. Her
current research projects include investigations of
cooperation and competition in social dilemma analogs,
women’s status from an evolutionary perspective, and
contextual influences on individualism and collectivism. She
particularly enjoys combining her research with teaching
each semester by involving undergraduate research assistants
in her projects.
Selected Publications and Presentations:
Kenrick, D. T., Ackerman, J., and Ledlow, S. (2002).
Evolutionary social psychology. In DeLamater, J. (Ed.).
Handbook of Social Psychology (2nd ed.). (Accepted for
Publication).
Ledlow, S. (2000, October). Combining cases with cooperative
learning. Pre-conference workshop presented the annual
meeting of the Professional and Organizational Development
Network in Higher Education, Vancouver, BC.
Ledlow, S. (Ed.). (1998). The instructional innovation
network. Tempe, AZ: Center for Learning and Teaching
Excellence, Arizona State University. [On-line Database].
Available: http://bestpractice.net.
Ledlow, S., & Davidson, N. A. (1998, October). Creating and
using cooperative learning structures in the college
classroom. Session presented at the annual meeting of the
Professional and Organizational Development Network in
Higher Education, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Davidson, N. A. & Ledlow, S. (1998, November). Designing
cooperative activities. Invited session presented at the
Lilly Conference on College Teaching, Oxford, Ohio.
Ledlow, S. (1994). Is cultural discontinuity an adequate
explanation for dropping out? In Monk, R. C. (Ed.). Taking
sides: Clashing views on controversial issues in race and
ethnicity. Guilford, CT: The Dushkin Publishing Group, Inc.
Originally published in 1992 in Journal of American Indian
Education, 31 (3) 21-36.
Ledlow, S., & MacCrate, C. (1994, June). Peer coaching: An
aid to implementing cooperative learning in the university
classroom. Session presented at What Works: Annual
Conference of the National Center for Postsecondary
Teaching, Learning, and Assessment, State College,
Pennsylvania.
Ledlow, S., & MacCrate, C. (1992, October). Odyssey:
Implementing change in the university classroom. Session
presented at the annual meeting of the International Society
for Exploring Teaching Alternatives, San Pedro, California.
Ledlow, S. (1992, August). Instructional technology: Hand in
hand with cooperative learning. Invited session presented at
the 23rd Annual Seminar on Academic Computing, Snowmass
Village, Colorado.
Recommended Books on Teaching and Teaming:
Angelo, Thomas A. and K. Patricia Cross. Classroom
Assessment Techniques: A Handbook for College Teachers. 2nd
ed. San Francisco: Jossey Bass Publishers, 1993.
Bonwell, C. C. and J. A. Eison. Active learning: Creating
Excitement in the Classroom. ERIC-ASHE Higher Education
Report, No. 1. Washington, DC: The George Washington
University, School of Education and Human Development, 1991.
Deutsch, M. The Resolution of Conflict: Constructive and
Destructive Processes. London: Yale University Press, 1973.
Forsyth, D. R. Group Dynamics. Pacific Grove, CA:
Brooks/Cole Publishing Company, 1990.
Millis, Barbara J. and Philip G. Cottell Jr. Cooperative
Learning for Higher Education Faculty. Phoenix, AZ: The Oryx
Press, 1998.
Scholtes, Peter R. The Team Handbook. Madison, WI: Joiner
Associates, 1992.
Senge, P. M., A. Kleiner, C. Roberts, R. B. Ross, and B. J.
Smith. The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies and Tools
for Building a Learning Organization. New York: Currency
Doubleday, 1994.
Smith, K.A. Project Management and Teamwork. Boston:
McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2000. |
