The PTC was a great experience: being taught by three master teachers (Sid Palmer, Rob Eaton, and Brian Schmidt) was both a joy and a privilege. The discussions in the course were a delight, and really helped me think through my mental health strategy for students--including a shift in my own thinking away from shielding students from anxiety to building resiliency within students.
The text of the course was Rob Eaton's book with Bonnie Moon and Steve Hunsaker called "Helping not Hindering," and since renamed "Improving Learning and Mental Health in the College Classroom." (There were a few additional articles and readings too.)
https://www.amazon.com/Improving-Learning-Classroom-Teaching-Education/dp/1952271800
This is the landing page for the course on canvas.
The focus on objectives was one I learned from: it wasn't "students will learn the mature art of stuffy objectives and state standard alignment." That's a very Rob Eaton thing to do, by the way--revise something old and stuffy into something new and useful: we want you to be doing something five years from now. What is it? "Consistently experiment with ways to improve your teaching, drawing from the scholarship of learning and teaching." That's just cool.
Also, that picture features my man Daniel Moncayo in addition to Rob Eaton, so how can I not include it?
This is an overview of the modules of the course pulled from Canvas, which shows topics ranging from specific, micro-techniques, to broad philosophical topics. It was a very well-designed course.
Note that I taught section 4. Note, too, that I do not have 449 data, as it is a practicum course. (Feel free to change this! I want the data!)