Becoming a Better Teacher
by Beverly Grose

Books about Becoming A Better Teacher
Most of these books are available through Amazon.com where you read detailed reviews.

• Successful College Teaching: Problem-Solving Strategies of Distinguished Professors
  by Sharon A. Baiocco and Jamie N. DeWaters
• Teaching Strategies of Award-Winning Professors!
  Based on interviews with 30 award-winning professors. Examines their personal teaching philosophies and investigates the forces of change currently pressuring college teachers.
• What the Best College Teachers Do
  by Ken Bain, Director for the Center of Teaching Excellence at New York University
• The Chicago Handbook for Teachers: A Practical Guide to the College Classroom
  by Alan Brinkley, Betty Dessants, Michael Flamm, Cynthia Fleming, Charles Forcey, and Eric Rothschild
• Creating Significant Learning Experiences: An Integrated Approach to Designing College Courses
  by L. Dee Fink
• Teaching at Its Best: A Research-Based Resource for College Instructors
  by Linda B. Nilson
• Classroom Assessment Techniques: A Handbook for College Teachers
  by Thomas A. Angelo and K. Patricia Cross
• McKeachie's Teaching Tips: Strategies, Research, and Theory for College and University Teachers
  by Wilbert J. McKeachie , Barbara K. Hofer
• What's The Use of Lectures?
  by Donald A. Bligh
• What's the Point in Discussion
  by Donald Bligh
• Advice for New Faculty Members
  by Robert Boice
• Women Faculty of Color in the White Classroom
  by Lucila Vargas
• Lifting a Ton of Feathers: A Woman's Guide for Surviving in the Academic World
  by Paula J. Caplan

Web Sites

• Making Thinking Visible
  by David Perkins, a senior professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education
• A Brief Summary of the Best Practices in Teaching
  Compiled by Tom Drummond, North Seattle Community College, 1994, 2002
• Evaluating Your Own Teaching
• Understanding Yourself as a Teacher

Provided by:
Beverly Grose, a M. A. student at The University of Texas at Dallas where she specializes in Studies in Literature. She earned a B. A. in English and Secondary Education from the University of Charleston. She has worked as a newspaper reporter, health educator, multimedia training developer and currently, teaches Introduction to Multimedia at Richland College.