Books about Teaching

The TFSC has an archive of books about teaching---some of them are excellent.

Check out our holdings (listed below). If you want to check out a few, feel free to stop by and pick them up.

  1. 10 Teaching Tools: Ten Secrets to Total Teaching Success
  2. 147 Practical Tips for Teaching Online Groups
  3. 147 Practical Tips for Teaching Professors
  4. 53 Interesting Ways of Helping Your Students to Study
  5. 53 Interesting Ways to Assess Your Students, 3rd Edition
  6. 53 Problems with Large Classes: Making the Best of a Bad Job
  7. A Guide to Evaluating Teaching for Promotion and Tenure
  8. A Handbook for Adjunct/Part-Time Faculty and Teachers of Adults, Revised Edition
  9. A Handbook for Adjunct/Part-Time Faculty and Teachers of Adults, Third Edition
  10. A Learning College for the 21st Century
  11. A New Case for the Liberal Arts: Assessing Institutional Goals and Student Development
  12. Achieving Optimal Enrollments and Tuition Revenues
  13. Active Learning: Creating Excitement in the Classroom
  14. Administrative Commitment to Teaching
  15. Administrative Leadership
  16. Advice for New Faculty Members
  17. Advisor, Teacher, Role Model, Friend: On Being a Mentor to Students in Science and Engineering
  18. Affirmative Action on Campus (New Directions for Student Services, No. 52)
  19. An Update on Adult Learning Theory (New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, No. 57)
  20. Applied Ethics in Student Services (New Directions for Student Services, No. 30)
  21. Assessing Adult Learning: A Guide for Practitioners
  22. Assessing Students' Learning (New Directions for Teaching and Learning, No. 34)
  23. Better Teaching, More Learning: Strategies for Success in Postsecondary Settings
  24. Beyond Traditional Tenure: A Guide to Sound Policies and Practices
  25. Bringing Problem-Based Learning to Higher Education: Theory and Practice (New Directions for Teaching and Learning, No. 68)
  26. Campus Use of the Teaching Portfolio: Twenty-Five Profiles
  27. Careerism and Intellectualism Among College Students
  28. Changing College Classrooms: New Teaching and Learning Strategies for an Increasingly Complex World
  29. Changing Practices in Faculty Evaluation: A Critical Assessment and Recommendations for Improvement
  30. Classroom Assessment and Research: An Update on Uses, Approaches, and Research
  31. Findings (New Directions for Teaching and Learning, No. 75)
  32. Classroom Communication: Collected Readings for Effective Discussion and Questioning
  33. Classroom Research: Early Lessons From Success (New Directions for Teaching and Learning, No. 46)
  34. Collaborative Peer Review: The Role of Faculty in Improving College Teaching
  35. Concepts and Choices for Teaching: Meeting the Challenges in Higher Education
  36. Conflict in Higher Education
  37. Confronting Diversity Issues On Campus (Survival Skills for Scholars, Vol. 6)
  38. Cooperative Learning for Higher Education Faculty
  39. Cooperative Learning: A Pedagogy for Addressing Contemporary Challenges & Critical Issues in Higher Education
  40. Cooperative Learning: Increasing College Faculty Instructional Productivity
  41. Coping with Faculty Stress (New Directions for Teaching and Learning, No. 29)
  42. Coping with Faculty Stress (Survival Skills for Scholars, Vol. 5)
  43. Crafting Student-Centered Syllabi: A Reference Guide
  44. Creating Campus-Based Teaching and Learning Programs
  45. Critical Thinking: Theory, Research, Practice, and Possibilities
  46. Cultural Diversity Manual
  47. Dealing with Ethical Dilemmas On Campus (Survival Skills for Scholars, Vol. 14)
  48. Demistifying the Profession: Helping Junior Faculty Succeed
  49. Democratic Education in an Age of Difference: Redefining Citizenship in Higher Education
  50. Determining Faculty Effectiveness: Assessing Teaching, Research, and Service for Personnel Decisions and Improvement
  51. Developing and Using Tests Effectively: A Guide for Faculty
  52. Developing Critical Thinkers: Challenging Adults to Explore Alternative Ways of Thinking and Acting
  53. Doing Faculty Development by Committee
  54. Dynamics of Academic Reform
  55. Effective Committee Service (Survival Skills for Scholars, Vol. 7)
  56. Effective Practices for Improving Teaching (New Directions for Teaching and Learning, No. 48)
  57. Empowering Students; Hands-on Library Instruction Activities
  58. Enhancing Faculty Careers: Strategies for Development and Renewal
  59. Enhancing the Multicultural Campus Environment: A Cultural Brokering Approach (New Directions for Student Services, No. 60)
  60. Essential Skills for College Teaching: An Instructional Systems Approach, 3rd Edition
  61. Face to Face: A Sourcebook of Individual Consultation Techniques for Faculty/Instructional Developers
  62. Facilitating Distance Education (New Directions for Adult & Continuing Education, No. 67)
  63. Faculty as Teachers: Taking Stock of What we Know
  64. Faculty Collaboration: Enhancing the Quality of Scholarship and Teaching
  65. Faculty Job Satisfaction: Women and Minorities in Peril
  66. Faculty Tenure: A Report and Recommendations by the Commission on Academic Tenure in Higher Education
  67. First Steps to Excellence in College Teaching
  68. Foreign Teaching Assistants in U.S. Universities
  69. Future Edge: Discovering the New Paradigms of Success
  70. Games that Teach: Experiential Activities for Reinforcing Training
  71. Getting Your Book Published (Survival Skills for Scholars, Vol. 10)
  72. Good Start: A Guidebook for New Faculty in Liberal Arts Colleges
  73. Handbook for College Teaching
  74. Handbook of College Teaching: Theory and Applications
  75. How Am I Teaching? Forms and Activities for Acquiring Instructional Input
  76. How College Affects Students
  77. How to Work with the Media (Survival Skills for Scholars, Vol. 2)
  78. HumblePi: The Role Mathematics Should Play in American Education
  79. Improving College Teaching: Strategies for Developing Instructional Effectiveness
  80. Improving Student Achievement Through Mastery Learning Programs
  81. Improving Teaching Styles (New Directions for Teaching and Learning, No. 1)
  82. Improving the Environment of Learning: Academic Leaders Talk About What Works
  83. Increasing Students' Learning: A Faculty Guide to Reducing Stress Among Students
  84. Inspiring Teaching
  85. Interesting Ways to Appraise your Teaching
  86. Issues & Inquiry in College Learning and Teaching
  87. Issues in Advising the Undecided College Student
  88. Journal for the Art of Teaching, Vol. V, No. 1
  89. Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, Vol. 1
  90. Leadership Skills for Department Chairs
  91. Learning Environments for Women's Adult Development: Bridges Toward Change (New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, No. 65)
  92. Learning From Students: Early Term Student Feedback in Higher Education
  93. Learning in Groups (New Directions for Teaching and Learning, No. 14)
  94. Learning in Groups: Exploring Fundamental Principles, New Uses, and Emerging Opportunities (New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, No. 71)
  95. Learning Styles: Implications for Improving Educational Practices
  96. Management and Leadership in Higher Education
  97. Managing Faculty Disputes
  98. Managing the Academic Department
  99. Mastering the Techniques of Teaching
  100. Mentor: Guiding the Journey of Adult Learners, 2nd Edition
  101. New Approaches to Management
  102. Opportunity in Adversity
  103. Patterns of Learning
  104. Peer Teaching: To Teach is to Learn Twice
  105. People Types & Tiger Stripes, 3rd Edition
  106. Personal Empowerment through Type
  107. Power and Politics in Organizations
  108. Practically Speaking: A Sourcebook for Instructional Consultants in Higher Education
  109. Preparing Graduate Students to Teach
  110. Presidents, Professors, and Trustees
  111. Professional Writing: Processes, Strategies, and Tips for Publishing in Educational Journals
  112. Publish or Perish: The Wrong Issue: Agendas, Alternatives, Applications, Actions
  113. Quick Hits: F.A.C.E.T. Classroom Techniques
  114. Quick Hits: Successful Strategies by Award Winning Teachers
  115. Racism on Campus: Confronting Racial Bias Through Peer Interventions (New Directions for Student Services, No. 56)
  116. Random Thoughts: The Humanity of Teaching
  117. Ready, Set, Teach! Learn to Teaching, Teach to Learn
  118. Recognizing Faculty Work: Reward Systems for the Year 2000 (New Directions for Higher Education, No. 81)
  119. Recording Teaching Accomplishment: A Dalhousie Guide to the Teaching Dossier, 4th Edition
  120. Reshaping Curricula: Revitalization Programs at Three Land Grant Universities
  121. Responding to the Needs of Today's Minority Students (New Directions for Student Services, No. 38)
  122. Revitalizing Undergraduate Science: Why Some Things Work and Most Don't
  123. Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities of the Professoriate
  124. Self-Directed Learning: A Practical Guide to Design, Development, and Implementation
  125. Service-Learning: Movement's Pioneers Reflect on Its Origins, Practice, and Future
  126. Sharing Authority Effectively
  127. Strengthening Departmental Leadership: A Team Building Guide for Chairs in Colleges and Universities
  128. Stress in Academic Life: The Mental Assembly Line
  129. Student Ratings of Instruction: Issues for Improving Practice (New Directions for Teaching and Learning, No. 43)
  130. Successful Use of Teaching Portfolios
  131. Supplemental Instruction: Increasing Achievement and Retention (New Directions for Teaching and Learning, No. 60)
  132. Taking Teaching Seriously: Meeting the Challenge of Instructional Improvement
  133. Teaching Alone, Teaching Together: Transforming the Structure of Teams for Teaching
  134. Teaching American Students: A Guide for International Faculty and Teaching Assistants in Colleges and Universities (Revised Edition)
  135. Teaching and Performing: Ideas for Energizing Your Classes
  136. Teaching and the Case Method Instructor's Guide, 3rd Edition
  137. Teaching as Though Students Mattered (New Directions for Teaching and Learning, No. 21)
  138. Teaching Assistant Strategies: An Introduction to College Teaching
  139. Teaching at a Distance with the Merging Technologies
  140. Teaching at its Best: A Research-Based Resource for College Instructors
  141. Teaching at the University: Ideas and Suggestions for Faculty, 3rd Edition
  142. Teaching College Freshmen
  143. Teaching College: Collected Readings for the New Instructor
  144. Teaching Consultation Process: Sourcebook
  145. Teaching From a Multicultural Perspective (Survival Skills for Scholars, Vol. 12)
  146. Teaching Ideas Exchange Workshop (Abstracts)
  147. Teaching Ideas Exchange Workshop, 2nd Annual (Abstracts)
  148. Teaching Ideas Exchange Workshop, 3rd Annual (Abstracts)
  149. Teaching Improvement Practices: Successful Strategies for Higher Education
  150. Teaching in College: A Resource for College Teachers, 3rd Edition
  151. Teaching in College: A Resource for College Teachers, Revised Edition
  152. Teaching in Practice: How Professionals Can Work Effectively with Clients, Patients, & Colleagues
  153. Teaching in the Information Age: The Role of Educational Technology (New Directions for Teaching & Learning, No 51)
  154. Teaching Large Classes Well (New Directions for Teaching and Learning, No. 32)
  155. Teaching Portfolio: Capturing the Scholarship in Teaching
  156. Teaching the Mass Class, 2nd Edition
  157. Teaching Through Academic Advising: A Faculty Perspective (New Directions for Teaching and Learning, No. 62)
  158. Teaching Tips: A Guidebook for the Beginning College Teacher
  159. Teaching Tips: A Guidebook for the Beginning College Teacher, 8th Edition
  160. Teaching Tips: Strategies, Research, and Theory for College and University Teachers
  161. Teaching Tips: Strategies, Research, and Theory for College and University Teachers, 10th Edition
  162. Teaching within the Rythms of the Semester
  163. Techniques for Evaluating and Improving Instruction (New Directions for Teaching and Learning, No. 31)
  164. The Academic's Handbook
  165. The Adult Learner: A Neglected Species, 4th Edition
  166. The Art and Politics of College Teaching: A Practical Guide for the Beginning Professor
  167. The Art and Science of 360 Degree Feedback
  168. The Challenge of Connecting Learning
  169. The Changing Face of College Teaching (New Directions for Teaching and Learning, No. 42)
  170. The Course Syllabus: A Learning-Centered Approach
  171. The Craft of Teaching, 2nd Edition
  172. The Department Chairperson's Role in Enhancing College Teaching (New Directions for Teaching & Learning, No. 37)
  173. The Essence of Good Teaching
  174. The Ethics of Teaching: A Casebook
  175. The Importance of Teaching: A Memorandum to the New College Teacher
  176. The Journal of Staff, Program, & Organization Development
  177. The Large Class Analysis Project
  178. The Mondern Practice of Adult Education, From Pedagogy to Andragogy (Revised & Updated)
  179. The Organizational Life Cycle
  180. The Quality Professor: Implementing TQM in the Classroom
  181. The Quality School Teacher: A Companion Volume to the Quality School
  182. The Skillful Teacher: On Technique, Trust, and Responsiveness in the Classroom
  183. The Social Worlds of Higher Education: Handbook for Teaching in a New Century
  184. The Teaching Portfolio: A Practical Guide to Improved Performance and Promotion/Tenure Decisions
  185. Toward Faculty Renewal
  186. Undergraduate Education: Goals and Means
  187. Understanding Self-Regulated Learning (New Directions for Teaching and Learning, No. 63)
  188. Using Active Learning in College Classes: A Range of Options for Faculty (New Directions for Teaching and Learning, No. 67)
  189. Using Cases to Improve College Teaching: A Guide to More Reflective Practice
  190. Using Learning Contracts
  191. Web-Basted Training: Using Technology to Design Adult Learning Experiences
  192. What's the Use of Lectures?
  193. Where's the Learning in Service Learning?
  194. Writing in the Disciplines, 3rd Edition
  195. Writing to Learn: Strategies for Assigning and Responding to Writing Across the Disciplines (New Directions for Teaching and Learning, No. 69)
  196. A Brief Primer on Teaching
  197. Active Learning: 101 Strategies to Teach Any Subject
  198. Awakening Minds: The Power of Creativity in Teaching
  199. Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher
  200. Creativity in Education & Learning: A Guide for Teachers and Educators
  201. Dealing with Difficult Participants
  202. Developing Adult Learners: Strategies for Teachers and Trainers
  203. Discussion as a Way of Teaching: Tools and Techniques for Democratic Classrooms
  204. Effective Grading: A Tool for Learning and Assessment
  205. Engaging Ideas: The Professor's Guide to Integrating Writing, Critical Thinking, and Active Learning in the Classroom
  206. First-Order Principles for College Teachers: Ten Basic Ways to Improve the Teaching Process
  207. Humor as an Instructional Defibrillator
  208. Improving Writing Skills: Memos, Letters, Reports, and Proposals (Survival Skills for Scholars, Vol. 9)
  209. Learning Style Perspectives: Impact in the Classroom
  210. Learning that Lasts: Integrating Learning, Development, and Performance in College and Beyond
  211. Learning Through Writing: A Compendium of Assignments and Techniques
  212. Learning to Listen, Learning to Teach: The Power of Dialogue in Educating Adults, Revised Edition
  213. Learning to Think: Disciplinary Perspectives
  214. Lecturing: A Practical Guide
  215. License to Laugh: Humor in the Classroom
  216. Mentor in a Manual: Climbing the Academic Ladder to Tenure, Second Edition
  217. Metateaching and the Instructional Map
  218. Persuasion Engineering
  219. Posttenure Faculty Development: Building a System of Faculty Improvement and Appreciation
  220. Professors are from Mars, Students are from Snickers
  221. Strategies for Creative Problem Solving
  222. Successful Beginnings for College Teaching
  223. Taking Learning to Task: Creative Strategies for Teaching Adults
  224. The Chicago Handbook for Teachers: A Practical Guide to the College Classroom
  225. The Digital Classroom: How Technology is Changing the way we Teach and Learn
  226. The Lecturer's Toolkit: A Practical Guide to Learning, Teaching & Assessment, Second Edition
  227. The Mentor's Spirit: Life Lessons on Leadership and the Art of Encouragement
  228. Tools for Teaching
  229. Women and Minority Faculty in the Academic Workplace: Recruitment, Retention, and Academic Culture
  230. New Faculty: A Practical Guide for Academic Beginners

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