Improving College Teaching (JB - Anker)
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This book provides practical, ready-to-use, research-based information about specific strategies and state-of-the-art techniques to improve college teaching. Through its nineteen chapters written by renowned faculty developers, the book offers a wide range of topics and ideas for thought and implementation. The chapters present programs that develop such necessary new skills as different teaching approaches needed for different kinds of students; use of current educational technology; evaluating one’s own teaching and helping others to evaluate theirs; and providing feedback on teaching.
Improving College Teaching is an ideal resource for presidents, provost, academic vice presidents, deans, department chairs, instructional development specialists, and faculty—the essential partners in evaluating and improving college teaching. It will also be helpful to students of higher education, whether they are planning careers as academic administrators or faculty.
Contents include:
• Crucial new roles for administrators
• Motivating faculty
• Effective TA training
• Starting a university teaching center
• Low-cost/no-cost instructional development activities
• Instructional development in community colleges
• Mentoring programs
• Peer classroom observations
• Using teaching portfolios
• Developing student portfolios
• Evaluating your own teaching
• Faculty collaboration
• Distance education
• Teaching adult learners
With contributions by:
• Susan A. Ambrose, Carnegie Mellon University
• Linda Annis, Ball State University
• Robert A. Armour, Board of Higher Education and Ministry
• Raoul A. Arreola, University of Tennessee, Memphis
• Ann E. Austin, Michigan State University
• Roger G. Baldwin, College of William and Mary
• Beverly Black, University of Michigan
• L. Dee Fink, University of Oklahoma
• Walter H. Gmelch, Iowa State University
• Judy A. Greene, University of Delaware
• Irene W. D. Hecht, American Council on Education
• William K. Jackson, University of Georgia
• Carolee Jones, Ball State University
• Barbara Beigun Kaplan, University of Maryland University College
• Joseph M. Pastore, Jr., Pace University
• Ronald D. Simpson, University of Georgia
• Mary Deane Sorcinelli, University of Massachusetts Amherst
• Emily C. (Rusty) Wadsworth, McHenry County College
• Peter H. Wagschal, National University
• John Zubizarreta, Columbia College
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