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- Advice to New Faculty Members: Nihil Nimus,
by Robert Boice.
- First Order Principles for College Teachers: Ten
Basic Ways
to Improve the Teaching Process, by Robert Boice.
- Writing Your Dissertation in Fifteen Minutes
a Day by Joan Bolker
- Writing with Power, by Peter Elbow.
- Teaching
and Performing : Ideas for Energizing Your Classes, by William M. Timpson (Editor), Suzanne Burgoyne, Christine S. Jones.
- Forms
of Intellectual and Ethical Development in the College Years : A
Scheme (Jossey-Bass Higher and Adult Education Series),
by William Graves Perry.
- Sociology
Through Active Learning: Student Exercises,
by Kathleen McKinney, Frank D. Beck, and Barbara S. Heyl. Be sure to
also order the Instructor's Manual from Sage Publications in
California. It is absolutely essential! You won't see the Instructor's
Manual listed -- you have to call up and ask for it.
- The
Power of Mindful Learning by Ellen Langer. Learn why forgetting is a
critical part of being human.
-
Successful Beginnings for College Teaching by Angela P. McGlynn. Don't
let the title fool you -- it IS about how to start off a class
successfully, but it also covers the middle and the end of a course!
Excellent practical advice from an experienced teacher.
-
Creating Contexts for Learning and Self-Authorship: Constructive-Developmental Pedagogy
by Marcia B. Baxter Magolda.
- The Art of Changing the Brain: Enriching
Teaching by Exploring the Biology of Learning
by James E. Zull
- How Scholars Trumped Teachers: Constancy
and Change in University Curriculum, Teaching, and Research, 1890-1990
by Larry Cuban.
- Grounded Theory in Management Research
by Karen D. Locke
- Composing Qualitative Research : Crafting
Theoretical Points from Qualitative Research by Karen Golden-Biddle and Karen D. Locke.
- The Art of Possibility : Transforming
Professional and Personal Life by Rosemund Stone Zander and Benjamin Zander.
- Self Insight by David Dunning.
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