Facilitating Class Discussions Supplementary Reading & Web Links Brookfield, S. D. The Skillful Teacher(San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1990) Brookfield, Stephen D. Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1995 This is an excellent text which describes critically reflective teaching as “. . . what happens when we identify and scrutinize the assumptions that under gird how we work.” (xii). The critically reflective process happens when teachers discover and examine their assumptions by viewing their practice from four distinct perspectives. Autobiographical reflection – autobiographical experiences as learners and teachers are a rich source of material to use as examples or points of reference. Students’ eyes – “We find out from our students how they perceive our actions and what it is about those actions that they find affirming or inhibiting” (xiii). Colleagues’ eyes – “We can ask colleagues to be mirrors, mentors, or critical friends with whom we engage in critical conversations about our practice” (xiii). Literature’s eyes – “We can read inside and outside our area of practice, to locate what we do within alternative theoretical frameworks” (xiii). One of the most useful aspects of this book are the examples given to illustrate points. Clarke, J. H. Designing discussions as group inquiry. College Teaching, 1988, 36 (4), 140-146. Collins, A. Different goals of inquire teaching, Questioning Exchange, 1988, 2(1), 39-45. Davis, Barbara Gross. Tools for Teaching. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1993 This is a comprehensive book, which 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.” Dillon, J. T. Teaching and the Art of Questioning (Bloomington, IN: Phi Delta Kappa Educational Foundation,(1983). McKeachie, Wilbert J. Teaching Tips. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1999. 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 Lecturing 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. Web Links Electronic Journal on Excellence in Teaching: http://ject.lib.muohio.edu/ 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.   Discover | Read | Explore | Apply | Measure

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