Teaching Support
Teaching Resources Bibliography
Below is a list of recommended titles to assist in strengthening your classroom skills. These are available from Watzek library or your local bookstore—Powell's Books will have many of them used as well.
- **The Art of Teaching / Jay Parini.
Parini shares his insights into the writing life and the teaching profession in an educational memoir.
- **What the Best College Teachers Do / Ken Bain.
An insightful look at what makes a great teacher, based on a study of three dozen teachers from a cross section of disciplines from medical-school faculties to undergraduate departments.
- The Chicago Guide to Your Academic Career: a Portable Mentor for Scholars from Graduate School through Tenure / John A. Goldsmith, John Komlos and Penny Schine Gold.
Finding a mentor, avoiding pitfalls when writing a dissertation, negotiating the job listings, and much more. Written as an informal conversation between colleagues.
- The Compleat Academic: a Career Guide / edited by John M. Darley, Mark P. Zanna, and Henry L. Roediger, III.
Discusses the “unwritten” rules governing a career in academia. Provides advice to help new academics set the best course for a lasting and vibrant career.
- Creating Significant Learning Experiences: An Integrated Approach to Designing College Courses / L. Dee Fink.
This book offers detailed explanations and examples that are pertinent to the process of creating significant learning experiences.
- Discussion as a Way of Teaching: Tools and Techniques for Democratic Classrooms / Stephen D. Brookfield, Stephen Preskill.
Shows how to plan, conduct, and assess classroom discussions.
- Effective Teaching with Technology in Higher Education: Foundations for Success / A.W. (Tony) Bates, Gary Poole.
Draws on current research and best practice to show how to integrate technology into teaching in higher education.
- The Joy of Teaching: A Practical Guide for New College Instructors / Peter Filene.
Gathering concepts and techniques borrowed from outstanding college professors, The Joy of Teaching provides helpful guidance for new instructors developing and teaching their first college courses.
- Lessons of the Masters / George Steiner.
A sustained reflection on the infinitely complex and subtle interplay of power, trust, and passions in the most profound sorts of pedagogy.
- McKeachie's Teaching Tips: Strategies, Research, and Theory for College and University Teachers / Wilbert J. McKeachie [et al.].
Provides helpful strategies for dealing with both the everyday problems of university teaching and those that arise in trying to maximize learning for every student.
- The Professor's Guide to Teaching: Psychological Principles and Practices / Donelson R. Forsyth.
Explores what research has revealed about effective teaching and mines this resource to offer suggestions and practical recommendations for both new and seasoned instructors.
- Using Technology in Teaching / William Clyde and Andrew Delohery.
This is a practical manual that can give traditional instructors in all disciplines 43 specific ways to perform course tasks more effectively with the technology that is currently available.
** RecommendedElectronic Teaching Aids
In recent years, the Web has grown into a fascinating and often fruitful place to find ideas to support your teaching. Here are a few of the best spots. - Moodle is a web-based course management system consisting of multiple tools allowing you to distribute information and communicate with students.
- Endnote A bibliographic application which allows you to search online bibliographic databases, organize reference and create formatted bibliographies either directly in the application on in your Word document. (Available in the computer labs.)
- Gradekeeper A tool for managing your gradebook and attendence records.
- SPSS Statistical software. (Available in the computer labs.)
For further information about these teaching aids, please contact Damian Miller IT consultant for the graduate school, at dpm@lclark.edu or 503-768-6195. Desk Copy Request Form
Use the Desk Copy Request Form (pdf) to request desk or review copies of texts required for a course or under consideration for a course.
New Course / Revised Course Proposal Forms
If you would like to propose a new course, or make a change (major or minor) to an existing course, the appropriate forms are available below. Once the form has been completed, your Departmental Chair reviews and signs the form for submission to the faculty Curriculum Committee. The Committee meets once a month considers proposals.
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