The Professor's Guide to Teaching explores what research has revealed about effective teaching and mines this resource to offer useful suggestions and practical recommendations for both new and seasoned instructors. The book unfolds in a logical fashion, beginning with prepping and lecturing and ending with evaluating and documenting. Chapters achieve a rare blend of theoretical depth and practical utility. For example, Forsyth's analysis of lecturing as a form of communication includes recommendations for teaching that stress the importance of considering the source of the message, the nature of the message, and the characteristics of the receiver of the message. Similarly, the author approaches classroom testing from the standpoint of psychological assessment, and so considers how testing requires the same care that psychologists use when developing questionnaires and inventories.
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
Prepping: Planning to Teach a College Class
Lecturing: Developing and Delivering Effective Classroom Presentations
Guiding: Student-Centered Approaches to Teaching
Testing: Strategies and Skills for Evaluating Learning
Grading (and Aiding): Helping Students Reach their Learning Goals
Managing: Fostering Academic Integrity, Civility, and Tolerance
Innovating: Using Technology Creatively in Teaching
Evaluating: Assessing and Enhancing Teaching Quality
Documenting: Developing a Teaching Portfolio
References
Index
About the Author
Reviews & Awards
This manuscript is "thick" with theoretical and empirical discussions and pragmatic "cookbook-like" tables and sections. The apprentice teacher can use the latter as a checklist for faculty development on the way to tenure. The seasoned teacher, searching in vain for more reflective and thought-provoking material (having accomplished good reviews and effective checklist efficiencies), will find this manuscript a cornucopia of stimuli for deepening one's skills and one's love of the profession.
—Thomas V. McGovern, PhD, Professor of Psychology, Arizona State University West, Fellow of the American Psychological Association
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