Perspectives and Principles: A College Administrators Guide to Staying Out of Court

Black, Dennis R.

Gilson, Matt

Magna Pubn Inc

Media attention focused on the instructional quality in colleges and universities reflects a higher education system that must do a better job of preparing instructors. First Steps is written just for that purpose - to help new instructors and teaching assistants set and meet standards of excellence. 
Glenn Ross Johnson provides the basics of instruction, from preparation through evaluation, step-by-step. He focuses on what new instructors need most, covering the essentials such as: 
• Determining your course objectives • Selecting textbooks • Involving your students more actively • What can be learned about your teaching through the Cognitive Interaction Analysis System (CIAS) • Evaluating your students

First Steps to Excellence in College Teaching

Education & Teaching

Johnson, Glenn R.

Schools & Teaching

Book by McCool, Sam, Byrnes, Larry, Weber, Robert, Cornesky, Robert A.

Implementing Total Quality Management in Higher Education

Business & Money

McCool, Sam

Byrnes, Larry

Weber, Robert

Management & Leadership

Suicide on Campus: Caring and Coping

Politics & Social Sciences

O'Malley, Nancy

Social Sciences

Growing Companies: Tools for Small Business Success

Filley, Alan C.

The practice of mentoring is oftenin the current public dialogue of education. And the process of achieving tenure is an area particularly in need of "a wise and loyal advisor."  Mentor in a Manual, in its 2nd edition, has been a trusted guide for many new faculty members as they begin their academic careers. it is often used as a parting gift to graduates from advisors or major professors. And it serves as a resource for senior faculty as they practice their own mentoring.

Mentor in a Manual: Climbing the Academic Ladder to Tenure

Magnan, Robert

Schoenfeld, Clay

Moving a Battleship With Your Bare Hands: Governing a University System

Weinstein, Laurence A.

Schoenfeld, A. Clay

Maintaining Perspective: A Decade of Collegiate Legal Challenges

Higher & Continuing Education

Professors and students seem to come from different planets (or candy bars). Barriers frequently exist that impede their communication, such as age, income and cholesterol level.Humor can break down these barriers so that professors can better connect with their students and other audiences. It can be used as a teaching tool to facilitate learning. Ron Berk describes and illustrates a wide variety of techniques that can be integrated systematically into instruction and professional presentations. For professors who consider themselves as "jocularly arthritic", this book moreover provides a special feature: it is close-captioned for the humor impaired.Berk's techniques are "the product of ten years of inadequate development, testing and research." But why take the author's words at their face value? Consider the testimonials of those who have actually attempted these methods in their own classes and presentations:'Before I tried Ron's methods in my philosophy class, I had an attendance problem. Now, no one comes to class.' -- H.I., Slot Machine U., Nevada'Applying humor to my engineering courses led me to understand the meaning of humiliation and rejection.' -- J.K., Toyota College, Kentucky

Professors Are from Mars, Students Are from Snickers: How to Write and Deliver Humor in the Classroom and in Professional Presentations

Humor & Entertainment

Berk, Ronald A.

Humor

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