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Inspired college teaching : a career-long resource for professional growth / Maryellen Weimer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Weimer, Maryellen, 1947-
- Series:
- Jossey-Bass higher and adult education series
- The Jossey-Bass higher and adult education series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- College teaching--United States.
- College teaching.
- College teachers--In-service training.
- College teachers.
- United States.
- Effective teaching--United States.
- Effective teaching.
- College teachers--Professional relationships--United States.
- College teachers--In-service training--United States.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 243 pages ; 24 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco, CA : Jossey-Bass, [2010]
- Summary:
- Directed towards college faculty, "Inspired College Teaching" challenges teachers to be responsible for their professional growth and development as an ongoing, career-long quest. Written by an experienced college teacher and editor of The Teaching Professor newsletter, this source explores the journey and growth of college teachers. This resource provides goals best positioned for beginning, mid-career, and senior faculty as well as activities faculty can use to ignite intellectual curiosity from both students and themselves. This book presents a way for faculty to obtain and sustain teaching excellence throughout their career.
- Contents:
- Principles for the professional growth of college teachers
- Reflection for growth and change
- Rewriting the end-of-course ratings story
- Feedback for teachers that improves learning for students
- Colleagues as collaborators
- Implementing change successfully
- New faculty: beliefs that prevent and promote growth
- Maintaining instructional vitality: the midcareer challenge
- The journey continues: senior faculty
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0787987719
- 9780787987718
- OCLC:
- 460050781
- Publisher Number:
- 99954853810
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