Faculty Reading

Offers practical, time-efficient strategies for faculty to support students, especially first-generation students, as they adjust to college expectations. Drawing from student voices and educational research, it provides tools faculty can use in and out of class to foster academic success and well-being with minimal additional time investment.

Provides practical suggestions, each tried and tested, for developing really effective lectures and presentations across all disciplines.

Offers practical strategies and case studies to address common teaching challenges in higher education, with a focus on creating inclusive, engaging, and student-centered learning environments. It blends recent theory with hands-on examples across disciplines, making it a valuable resource for both new and experienced instructors.

This course is designed to help develop and enhance teaching style; provide methods, tools, and advice for handling all manner of teaching scenarios; and help viewers achieve new levels of success as teachers.

This evidence-based guide helps instructors improve their teaching through self-reflection and self-assessment using a new model that goes beyond traditional evaluations. With rubrics, case studies, and practical tools, it empowers educators to critically examine and enhance their teaching practices across disciplines.

This concise guidebook is intended for faculty who are interested in engaging their students and developing deep and lasting learning, but do not have the time to immerse themselves in the scholarship of teaching and learning.

Offers practical strategies grounded in research to help students become self-regulated learners by understanding how learning works and developing key cognitive, emotional, and behavioral skills. It provides faculty with evidence-based activities and course design tips to foster student reflection, motivation, and long-term academic success across disciplines.

Outlines how to create powerful, student-centered learning experiences using research-backed strategies and a structured approach. It includes updates on active learning, online teaching, and handling student resistance, helping educators design more impactful courses.

Offers faculty evidence-based practices to promote student success and retention, particularly for underrepresented groups. It provides strategies for creating an inclusive course environment, fostering engagement, building connections with culturally relevant material, and improving teaching methods to support student persistence, academic success, and graduation.

Is the lecture an outmoded teaching method that inhibits active learning or is it a potentially powerful tool that is an essential part of every teacher's repertoire? This book presents up-to-date research on the different types of lecture, on what constitutes effective lecturing, and on the impact of lecturing when done appropriately and well.

Research-driven and classroom-tested best practices to help adjuncts develop the knowledge and skills required to run a successful classroom.

Explains how the brain works, and how to help adults learn, develop, and perform more effectively in various settings.

For teachers in higher education who haven't been able to catch up with developments in teaching and learning, James Davis and Bridget Arend offer an introduction that focuses on seven coherent and proven evidence-based strategies.

People who teach in higher education are subject matter specialists, but they often have little preparation in how to teach. This book presents the knowledge base of college teaching in a user-friendly, easy-to-read, yet well-researched format.

A self-help book that provides anyone teaching a college course with a thorough understanding of what it takes to be an effective teacher.

Written by Bill Coplin, who has 50+ years of undergraduate teaching experience, this book is a self-help manual so that undergraduate professors in all fields can test out his suggestions and ideas for themselves. College professors will be much happier because their actions will meet the needs of their students and society.

This book offers guidance for new and experienced educators in higher education, helping them navigate both the classroom and administrative environment to thrive.

A practical text that promotes more engaging lecture presentations. It also supports student learning in lectures through class activities designed to encourage student preparation, attention, and application of newly learned information.

This indispensable handbook provides helpful strategies for dealing with both the everyday challenges of university teaching and those that arise in efforts to maximize learning for every student.

This book guides readers through how, when, and why to design, develop, implement, and evaluate microlearning. Case studies punctuate what works and what doesn't.

This book introduces the SGID method, a mid-course feedback tool that helps faculty improve classes in real time with student input. It allows for timely adjustments that benefit both current and future students.

Minding Bodies aims to help instructors improve their students' knowledge and skills through physical movement, attention to the spatial environment, and sensitivity to humans as more than "brains on sticks." It shifts the focus of adult learning from an exclusively mental effort toward an embodied, sensory-rich experience, offering new strategies to maximize the effectiveness of time spent learning together on campus as well as remotely.

While there are an abundance of books and workshops that aim to integrate education and brain science, educators are seldom given concrete, actionable advice that makes a difference in the classroom. Multiple Pathways to the Student Brain bridges that divide by providing examples of strategies for day-to-day instruction aligned with the latest brain science.

Provides a vital map of education's 'new landscape' of the current best practices and philosophies. Teachers, administrators, and education professors will find ideas that will help transform classrooms into positive, productive learning environments.

College still looks like it did a century ago, with instructors delivering lectures to silent halls of students. Yet the science of education shows unambiguously that active learning is more effective. The New Classroom details the evidence and offers hands-on guidance for teachers in every discipline and institution, so that students can excel.

This book offers an in-depth understanding of an alternative pedagogy created for use by anyone working with at-risk learners. It offers valuable insight to understand at-risk students and critical facets of teaching this population and contains an in-depth explanation of the pedagogy and a step-by-step process to implement it.

Shows how to implement project-based learning for first-year undergraduates, with practical tools and examples. It highlights how real-world, team-based projects increase engagement, retention, and support inclusive excellence across all types of institutions.

Contains short, practice-oriented articles by experienced instructors that offer valuable teaching and career tips for balancing competing demands, addressing student issues, managing classrooms, and enhancing professional development.

This practical guide offers proven strategies to energize college teaching, with updated techniques for engaging diverse students, teaching online, and fostering inclusive classrooms. Drawing on decades of experience, it includes new chapters on critical thinking, creativity, teamwork, and responsible teaching practices.

Fills the gap in higher education literature between the primary research in cognitive theory and the classroom environment. While other books provide research without concrete examples or simply introduce radical theories that ultimately are not useful in the classroom, this book offers simple interventions that can be integrated into pre-existing techniques as well as clear descriptions of how to do so.

This book presents a model of embedded professional development, which capitalizes on the affordances of technology to enable groups of faculty to examine their practice in a non-evaluative context, but with a clear focus on improvement.

A complete, accessible, evidence-based guide to better teaching in higher education, with helpful advice on active learning, interactive lecturing, self-regulated learning, the science of learning, giving and receiving feedback, and so much more.

This practical guide is designed for early-career instructors looking to improve student engagement and teaching effectiveness. It offers actionable strategies, including active learning techniques and syllabus tips, inspired by marketing and K-12 education, to help instructors create engaging lessons and foster student participation.

Provides instructors with a resource grounded in the academic knowledge base, written in an easily accessible, engaging, and practical style.

A practical guide of proven quick ideas for improving classes and essential information for designing anything from one lesson or a group of lessons to an entire course. Student-centered, activity-driven, and proven again and again, these techniques can revolutionize your classroom.

Designed for college and secondary educators who are looking for support as they begin their teaching careers. Beyond the mechanics of the teaching-learning process, this book emphasizes preparation and provides resources.

A practical, classroom-tested "tool kit" for faculty members who would like to develop their teaching practice. The 35 articles are written by college faculty for college faculty and contain concrete pedagogical strategies.

This accessible guide shows how teaching students simple, research-based learning strategies can dramatically improve their academic performance. Focused on metacognition and motivation, it offers practical, easy-to-implement methods that help students take ownership of their learning—often with transformative results in just one class session.

This book provides a guide to the Transparency in Learning and Teaching (TILT) framework, which improves student outcomes by making learning processes clear and accessible. It offers strategies for faculty to adopt transparent instruction, backed by research and real-world examples.