Teaching Your First College Class - Softcover

Lieberg, Carolyn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1579222269 ISBN 13: 9781579222260

Publisher: Routledge, 2008

Synopsis

No other teaching experience will feel quite like the first time an instructor walks into a classroom to face a class of students.

This book is a wise and friendly guide for new faculty and graduate student instructors who are about to teach for the first time.

It provides an introduction to the theory of teaching; describes proven strategies and activities for engaging students in their learning; and offers advice on classroom management, syllabus creation, grading, assessment, and discipline issues, among other topics. It prepares readers for a confident start as teachers, and gives them a firm foundation on which to develop their skills and personal classroom styles.

The author breaks teaching down into its component elements and tasks to enable graduate student instructors to identify their particular responsibilities, and learn about what works and does not. They will also benefit from reading the book as a whole as it sets their work in the context of course objectives and learning theory.

For new faculty this engaging book provides a solid basis from which to develop their skills and personal styles as teachers; and offers guidance on documenting their classroom success for the purposes of promotion and tenure. For graduate student instructors, the book is a companion that will give them confidence and pleasure in teaching, and stand them in good stead if they decide on a in any future career in academe.

About this title

Book Description:

“In addition to practical tips, the book offers a very basic introduction to the scholarship of teaching.... Readers who want a practical resource without the distractions of first-person narrative will find exactly what they are looking for in this book. It will be particularly useful for those who are unfamiliar with the scholarship of teaching and interested in a comprehensive, practical guide to the mechanics and details of their craft.”―Teaching Theology & Religion

“Since most graduate programs don’t focus their curriculum on what it means to become a worthy teacher in their respective fields, this book will prove an indispensable tool to anyone embarking on the task, both graduate instructors and newlyappointed assistant professors. Lieberg dispenses some graceful wisdom on the art of teaching without being overly prescriptive or reducing classroom strategies to easy formulas.”―Nancy K. Barry, Assistant to the Dean for Advising and Academic Support, Luther College

“A smart and sensitive guide for graduate students and new faculty preparing to teach their first college class. Beautifully written, this is a how-to book with heart. When teachers and students are seen as whole people, the routines of active learning come alive, engaging students with content, with each other, and with skills of conversation and collaboration that will serve them well throughout life.”―, Senior Scholar, The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching

This book provides an introduction to the theory of teaching; describes proven strategies and activities for engaging students in their learning; and offers advice on classroom management, syllabus creation, grading, assessment, and discipline issues, among other topics.

About the Author:

Carolyn Lieberg was Associate Director of the Center for Teaching at the University of Iowa for eight years. Previously she worked at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. She now lives in Washington, D.C.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1579222269
• ISBN 13: 9781579222260
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 214