Podium Style

Davis, Barbara Gross. Tools for Teaching. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1993

• This is a comprehensive book that deals with very practical topics faced by teachers.
  • Getting Under Way
    
    
  • Responding to a Diverse Student Body
    
    
  • Discussion Strategies
    
    
  • Lecture Strategies
    
    
  • Collaborative and Experiential Strategies
    
    
  • Enhancing Students' Learning and Motivation
    
    
  • Writing Skills and Homework Assignments
    
    
  • Testing and Grading
    
    
  • Instructional Media and Technology
    
    
  • Evaluation to Improve Teaching
    
    
  • Teaching Outside the Classroom
    
    
  • Finishing Up
    
    
• The topic sentence of paragraphs is in bold to emphasize main points.
  
  
• A rich collection of classroom-tested strategies and activities designed for beginning, mid-career and senior faculty members.
  
  
• Forty-nine teaching tools that cover both traditional tasks, such as writing a course syllabus and delivering an effective lecture to more contemporary concerns such as responding to diversity and using technology.
  
  
• It is something as a reference book in which tools are designed to be read and used independently.
  
  
• The book functions as a daily reference for various aspects of effective teaching.

  One reviewer finds it incomparable as a text on teaching strategies in its "depth, breadth, accessibility and practicality."

A Berkeley Compendium of Suggestions for Teaching with Excellence by Barbara Gross Davis , Lynn Wood and Robert C. Wilson: http://uga.berkeley.edu/sled/compendium/. The compendium contains many of the ideas found in Tools for Teaching. They are a compilation of best teaching strategies gathered at University of California, Berkeley in 1983.

McKeachie, Wilbert J. Teaching Tips. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin,

• Teaching Tips is in its tenth edition and contains many chapters by collaborating authors.
  
  
• It is the shortest, most comprehensive text on teaching issues with a wide range of topics
  • Countdown for Course Preparation
    
    
  • Planning Your Students' Learning Activities
    
    
  • Meeting a Class for the First Time
    
    
  • Facilitating Discussion: Posing Problems, Listening, Questioning
    
    
  • Testing and Assessing Learning: Assigning Grades Is Not the Most Important Function
    
    
  • What to Do About Cheating
    
    
  • The ABC's of Assigning Grades
    
    
  • Teaching Students to Learn Through Writing: Papers, Journals, and Reports
    
    
  • Teaching Students How to Learn More from Textbooks and Other Reading
    
    
  • Laboratory Teaching: Teaching Students to Think Like Scientists
    
    
  • Experiential Learning: Service Learning, Fieldwork, and Collaborative Research
    
    
  • Peer Learning, Collaborative Learning, Cooperative Learning
    
    
  • Problem Students (There's Almost Always at Least One!)
    
    
  • Counseling and Advising
    
    
  • Appraising and Improving Your Teaching: Using Students, Peers, Experts, and Classroom Research
    
    
  • Ethics in College Teaching
    
    
  • Motivating Students for Your Course and for Lifelong Learning
    
    
  • Teaching Students How to Learn
    
    
  • Teaching Thinking
    
    
  • Teaching Values: Should We? Can We?
    
    
• Definitely one of the most useful and widely used teaching texts of all time.
  

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