Teaching and Learning Resources

The voices in this book reflect the broad diversity of a large urban university community, with contributions from undergraduate and graduate students, teaching assistants, contract and full-time faculty, staff and administrators. Issues of equity, diversity and power form the foundation of this community's thinking about pedagogy, and the topics span a continuum from the theoretical to the practical.

What makes a good college teacher? This book provides an evidence-based answer to that question by presenting a set of 'model teaching characteristics' that define what makes a good college teacher.

Includes 20 original chapters written by well-known experts in the field of teaching and learning. Topics covered include:employing the science of learning in a social science context, understanding the effects of a flipped classroom on student success, pedagogical techniques to create a community of inquiry in online learning environments, the risks and rewards of co-teaching, reaching and teaching' non-traditional students, facilitating learning and leadership in student team projects, connecting students with the community through research issues of assessment, including backward design, developing and using rubrics, and defining and implementing the scholarship of teaching and learning.

Discover how to keep your teaching, and your students, energized with The Skillful Teacher, a practical guide to effective techniques, approaches, and methods for today's college classrooms

A practical guide for new faculty and graduate student instructors.