speaker photoTerry Doyle

Ferris State University

Friday September 23: 
"Helping Students Learn in Harmony with their Brain"

The past ten years have produced an extraordinary amount of research findings from neuroscience, biology and cognitive science that strongly suggest our students need to change the ways in which they approach their learning and studying activities. In this session, participants will learn easy ways to share these important findings with their students and assist them in becoming more learner centered learners.

Biography

Terry Doyle is an author, educational consultant and Professor of Reading at Ferris State University where he has worked for the past 34 years. From 1998 to 2009 he served as the Senior Instructor for Faculty Development and Coordinator of the New to Ferris Faculty Transition Program for the Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning at Ferris State. Terry has presented over sixty workshops on teaching and learning topics at national and international conferences since 2000. He was the keynote speaker at the Conference on Higher Education Pedagogy at Virginia Tech University in February, 2011. During the past five years he has worked with faculty in Taiwan, South Korea and faculty on fifty different colleges and universities across the United States on ways to develop a learner centered teaching practice. He is the author of the book Helping Students Learn in a Learner Center Environment: A Guide to Teaching in Higher Education, published by Stylus, 2008. Terry is the co-author of the book New Faculty Transition - An Ideal Program published in 2004. His new book Learner Centered Teaching: Putting the Research on Learning into Practice will be published by Stylus in October, 2011.