Books on Teaching

All of the following titles are available in McHenry Library. Please call CTE for additional recommendations on specific topics.

Contact: Center for Teaching Excellence
Phone: 459-5091
E-mail: cte@ucsc.edu
URL: http://ic.ucsc.edu/CTE

General Guides

What the Best College Teachers Do
Ken Bain (Harvard University Press, 2004)
LB2331  .B34  2004
Description

Teaching Tips: Strategies, Research, and Theory for College and University Teachers
Wilbert J. McKeachie (Houghton Mifflin, 1999)
LB 1773 .M35 1999
Description

Tools for Teaching
Barbara Gross Davis (Jossey-Bass,1993)
LB 2331 .D37 1993

Teaching at its Best: a Research-Based Resource for College Instructors
Linda B. Nilson (Anker,1998)
LB2331 .N54 1998
Description

First Day to Final Grade: a Graduate Student's Guide to Teaching
Anne Curzan and Lisa Damour (Michigan, 2000)
LB 2335.4 .C87 2000

Teaching on Solid Ground: Using Scholarship to Improve Practice
Robert J. Menges and Maryellen Weimer (Jossey-Bass, 1996)
LB 2331 .T481 1996
Description

Understanding Learning

How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School
John D. Bransford, Ann L. Brown and Rodney Cocking, eds. (National Academy Press, 1999)
LB 1061 .H672 1999

Learning and Motivation in the Postsecondary Classroom
Marilla Svinicki (Anker, 2004)
LB 1065  .S84  2004
Description

The Art of Changing the Brain
James E. Zull (Stylus, 2002)
LB 1057 .Z85 2002
Description

Learner-Centered Teaching

Learner-Center Teaching: Five Key Changes to Practice
Weimer, Maryellen (Jossey-Bass, 2002)
LB 2331 .W39 2002
Description

Active Learning

Engaging Ideas: the Professor's Guide to Integrating Writing, Critical Thinking, and Active Learning in the Classroom
John C. Bean (Jossey-Bass, 2001)
PI 1404 .B35 1996
Description

Active Learning: Creating Excitement in the Classroom
Charles C. Bonwell and James A. Eison (ASHE-ERIC Higher Education Reports, 1991)
LB1027.23 .B66 1991
Description

Using Active Learning in College Classes: A Range of Options for Faculty
Tracey E. Sutherland and Charles C. Bonwell (New Directions for Teaching and Learning #67, Jossey-Bass, 1996)
LB1027.23 .U848 1996
Description

Grading / Assessment

Effective Grading: a Tool for Learning and Assessment
Barbara E.Walvoord and Virginia Johnson Anderson (Jossey-Bass, 1998)
LB 2368  .W35  1998
DescriptionEducative Assessment
Grant Wiggins (1998, Jossey-Bass).
LB 3051 .W495 1998
Description

Classroom Assessment Techniques: A Handbook for College Teachers
Thomas A. Angelo and K. Patricia Cross (Jossey-Bass, 1993)
LB2822.75 .A54 1993
Description

Teaching with Technology

Principles of Effective Teaching in the Online Classroom
Renee E. Weiss, Dave S. Knowlton and Bruce Speck (New Directions for Teaching and Learning #84, Jossey-Bass, 2000).
LB1025.2 .N456 2000
Description

Issues in Web-based Pedagogy: a Critical Primer
Robert A. Cole (Greenwood Press, 2000)
LB1044.87 .I88 2000
Description

Assessment Strategies for the On-Line Class: From Theory to Practice
Rebecca S. Anderson, John F. Bauer and Bruce W. Speck (New Directions for Teaching and Learning #91, Jossey-Bass, 2002)
LB 1028.5 .A74 2002
Description

Collaborative Learning and other Group Approaches

Collaborative Learning Techniques: a Handbook for College Faculty
Elizabeth F. Barkley, et al. (Jossey-Bass, 2005)
LB1032  .B318  2005
Description

Collaborative Learning: Underlying Processes and Effective Techniques
Kris Bosworth and Sharon J. Hamilton, eds. (New Directions for Teaching and Learning #59, Jossey-Bass, 1994)
LB 1032 .C586 1994
Description Using Student Teams in the Classroom: a Faculty Guide
Ruth Federman Stein and Sandra Hurd (Anker, 2000)
LB 1032 .F34 2000
Description

Large classes

Strategies for Energizing Large Classes: from Small Groups to Learning Communities
Jean MacGregor (New Directions for Teaching and Learning #81, Jossey-Bass, 2000)
LB 1032 .S825 2000
Description

Problem-Based Learning

The Power of Problem-Based Learning
Barbara J. Duch, Susan E. Groh, and Deborah E. Allen, eds. (Stylus, 2001)
LB 1027.42 .P69 1991
Description Bringing Problem-Based Learning to Higher Education: Theory and Practice
LuAnn Wilkerson and Wim H. Gijselaers, eds. (New Directions for Teaching and Learning #68, Jossey-Bass, 1996)
LB 1027.42 .B74 1996
Description

On Being a Teacher

The Courage to Teach
Parker Palmer (Jossey-Bass, 1998)
LB 1775 .P25 1998
Description Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher
Stephen D. Brookfield (Jossey-Bass, 1995)
LB 2331 .B677 1995
Description

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