The Art and Craft of CollegeTeaching : A Guide for New Professors and Graduate Students

The Art and Craft of College Teaching provides a hands-on, quick-start guide to the college classroom for those who are facing their first five years as independent teachers. In it, you’ll find the answers to some of college teachings most common questions:

How do college students learn most effectively? What are the questions to consider when you develop a course for the first time? How does class size affect course design? How do you set your expectations for your students? How can you help students become better thinkers? Why is the assessment of student learning important to the classroom teacher? What makes lecturing effective? What techniques of preparation and performance work best with which discussions? How do you deal with a slow or non-responsive class? How do you deal with challenges to your authority in the classroom? How do you set up a seminar so that it runs will a minimum of input from you? How do you get students to work collaboratively and effectively on learning exercises? What are the best practices for grading student exams and papers? What do you actually learn from student evaluations?

Robert Rotenberg has a doctorate in anthropology from the University of Massachusetts. He has taught university-level classes for more than thirty years, at Hampshire College, the University of Massachusetts/ Amherst, the University of Rhode Island, and DePaul University in Chicago, where he was named a Vincent DePaul Professor for distinguished teaching. For more than twenty years, he has mentored dozens of faculty. He has served on teaching improvement task forces, conducted workshops on teaching effectiveness and assessment, and given conference papers on the relationship between teaching and curriculum development. His previous books include Time and Order in Metropolitan Vienna: A Seizure of Schedules, The Cultural Meaning of Urban Space, co-edited with Gary McDonogh, and Landscape and Power in Vienna.