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Whether you're an instructor or a member of the staff at WCC, you will want to improve your skills and knowledge of what makes WCC tick:  teaching, learning, leading, and succeeding.  The Erwin Library can provide access to many of the professional materials you may need, including:

Journals

Community College Journal Journal of College Science Teaching Teaching English in the Two-Year College Chronicle of Higher Education Adult Learning Teaching and Learning in Nursing
The Community College Journal is AACC's (American Association of Community Colleges) bi-monthly magazine. It features articles by leading experts, opinions that put the news in perspective, coverage of higher education issues, and profiles of the field's leaders. Every issue covers news and information from a national network of colleges, providing the latest surveys, practices, and innovations. A peer-reviewed journal published by the National Science Teachers Association. Teaching English in the Two-Year College (TETYC), the journal of the Two-Year College English Association (TYCA), is for instructors of English in two-year colleges as well as for teachers of first- and second-year composition in four-year institutions. TETYC publishes theoretical and practical articles on composition, developmental studies, technical and business communication, literature, creative expression, language, and the profession.

The Chronicle of Higher Education is the No. 1 source of news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty members and administrators.  Online, The Chronicle is published every weekday and is the top destination for news, advice, and jobs for people in academe. The Chronicle's website features the complete contents of the latest issue.

The audience includes those who teach adults; design, manage, and evaluate programs; and researchers on adult learning, development and teaching practices. We publish research articles focused on reporting the importance to practice; literature reviews; conceptual and theoretical pieces; and quality accounts of innovations in practice as peer reviewed articles. We also publish short personal reflections and descriptions of resources useful to educators of adults. Teaching and Learning in Nursing is the Official Journal of the Organization for Associate Degree Nursing. The journal is dedicated to the advancement of Associate Degree Nursing education and practice, and promotes collaboration in charting the future of health care education and delivery.

Database for Language Learning

Transparent Language

  • Smart Insight and Review - Your learned vocab items chart tells you how many words and phrases you've learned and when it's time to review.
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Learning

Creating Self-Regulated Learners

By Linda Nilson and Barry J. Zimmerman

Published:  2013

ISBN: 9781579228668

Linda Nilson provides the theoretical background to student self-regulation, the evidence that it enhances achievement, and the strategies to help students develop it. At a time of so much concern about what our students are learning in college and how well prepared they are for the challenges of tomorrow's economy and society, self-regulated learning provides a reassuring solution, particularly as studies indicate that struggling students benefit the most from practicing it.
 

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LB 1060 .N55 2013

How We Learn: The Surprising Truth About When, Where and Why it Happens

By Benedict Carey

Published: 2014

ISBN: 9780812993882

Award-winning science reporter Benedict Carey discovers that, from the moment we are born, we are all learning quickly, efficiently, and automatically; but in our zeal to systematize the process we have ignored valuable, naturally enjoyable learning tools like forgetting, sleeping, and daydreaming. Is a dedicated desk in a quiet room really the best way to study? Can altering your routine improve your recall? Are there times when distraction is good? Is repetition necessary? Carey's search for answers to these questions yields a wealth of strategies that make learning more a part of our everyday lives--and less of a chore.
 

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BF318 .C366 2014

Learning as Transformation: Critical Perspectives on a Theory in Progress

By Jack Mezirow

Published:  2000

ISBN:  9780787948450

Fifteen of the field's top scholars and practitioners join Jack Mezirow ... to review the core principles of transformation theory, analyze the process of transformative learning, describe different types of learning and learners, suggest key conditions for socially responsible learning, explore group and organizational learning, and present revelations from the latest research. They also share real-world examples drawn from their own experiences as educators and assess the evolution of transformative learning in practice and philosophy. Learning as Transformation presents an intimate portrait of a powerful learning concept and invites educators, researchers, and scholars to consider the implications of transformative learning in their own professional work.

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LB1059 .M49 2000

Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning

By Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger III, and Mark A. McDaniel

Published:  2014

ISBN:  9780674729018

New insights into how memory is encoded, consolidated, and later retrieved have led to a better understanding of how we learn ... Many common study habits and practice routines turn out to be counterproductive. Underlining and highlighting, rereading, cramming, and single-minded repetition of new skills create the illusion of mastery, but gains fade quickly. More complex and durable learning come from self-testing, introducing certain difficulties in practice, waiting to re-study new material until a little forgetting has set in, and interleaving the practice of one skill or topic with another. Speaking most urgently to students, teachers, trainers, and athletes, Make It Stick will appeal to all those interested in the challenge of lifelong learning and self-improvement.

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LB1060 .B768 2014

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Teaching Naked:  How Moving Technology Out of Your College Classroom Will Improve Student Learning

by José Antonio Bowen

Published:  2012

ISBN:  9781118110355

You've heard about "flipping your classroom"—now find out how to do it! Introducing a new way to think about higher education, learning, and technology that prioritizes the benefits of the human dimension. José Bowen recognizes that technology is profoundly changing education and that if students are going to continue to pay enormous sums for campus classes, colleges will need to provide more than what can be found online and maximize "naked" face-to-face contact with faculty. Here, he illustrates how technology is most powerfully used outside the classroom, and, when used effectively, how it can ensure that students arrive to class more prepared for meaningful interaction with faculty. Bowen offers practical advice for faculty and administrators on how to engage students with new technology while restructuring classes into more active learning environments.

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LB1028.3 .B589 2012

Why Don't Students Like School? : A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About how the Mind Works and What it Means for the Classroom

By Daniel T. Willingham

Published:  2009

ISBN:  9780470279304

Cognitive scientist Dan Willingham has focused his acclaimed research on the biological and cognitive basis of learning and has a deep understanding of the daily challenges faced by classroom teachers. This book will help teachers improve their practice by explaining how they and their students think and learn revealing the importance of story, emotion, memory, context, and routine in building knowledge and creating lasting learning experiences.

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LB1060 .W5435 2009

Leadership & Communication

Creating Effective Teams: A Guide for Members and Leaders

By  Susan A. Wheelan

Published:  2005

ISBN: 9781412913768

A bestseller in its first edition, Creating Effective Teams, Second Edition, is sure to be a perfect fit for team leaders and members, trainers, managers, consultants, psychologists, military, and educators. Students enrolled in organizational studies, management, human resources, social psychology, education, group studies, leadership, sociology, and communication courses may also benefit from this bestseller.

Erwin Library General Collection
Call Number HD66 .W485 2005

Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

By Brené Brown

Published:  2015

ISBN: 9781592408412

Without question, putting ourselves out there means there’s a far greater risk of getting criticized or feeling hurt. But when we step back and examine our lives, we will find that nothing is as uncomfortable, dangerous, and hurtful as standing on the outside of our lives looking in and wondering what it would be like if we had the courage to step into the arena—whether it’s a new relationship, an important meeting, the creative process, or a difficult family conversation. Daring Greatly is a practice and a powerful new vision for letting ourselves be seen.

Erwin Library General Collection
Call Number: BF575.A85 B76 2015

Facilitation Skills : Helping Groups Make Decisions

By Gregory B. Putz

Published:  2002

ISBN:  9780966445619

A comprehensive guidebook outlining the six steps to group decision-making. The book includes practical advice on setting up the meeting room, using flipcharts, building consensus, and handling conflict. Important information on do's and don'ts and frequently asked questions are included in the text. Special emphasis is placed on the neutral role of the facilitator. An easy-to-follow format, this book is an essential tool for any community leader, as well as business manager, supervisor, or team leader.

Erwin Library General Collection
Call Number HD66 .P88 2002

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable

By  Patrick Lencioni

Published:  2002

ISBN: 9780787960759

In The Five Dysfunctions of a Team ... Kathryn Petersen, Decision Tech's CEO, faces the ultimate leadership crisis: Uniting a team in such disarray that it threatens to bring down the entire company. Will she succeed? Will she be fired? Will the company fail? Lencioni's utterly gripping tale serves as a timeless reminder that leadership requires as much courage as it does insight.

Throughout the story, Lencioni reveals the five dysfunctions which go to the very heart of why teams even the best ones-often struggle. He outlines a powerful model and actionable steps that can be used to overcome these common hurdles and build a cohesive,effective team. Just as with his other books, Lencioni has written a compelling fable with a powerful yet deceptively simple message for all those who strive to be exceptional team leaders.

Erwin Library General Collection
Call Number HD66 .W485 2005

 

Leadership Step by Step: Become the Person Others Follow

By Joshua Spodek

Published: 2017

ISBN: 9780814437933

'Learn how to lead. Leadership literature is full of principles and ideas-but they rarely leave the page. Practice is what turns abstract concepts into useful skills. Leadership Step by Step walks readers through what to do and how to do it in an integrated and comprehensive progression of exercises designed to cultivate key abilities, behaviors, and beliefs through experience. The 22 exercises in this hands-on book help you accomplish the inner work and gain the social skills required for great leadership. Each chapter opens with a story demonstrating a leadership skill-and then guides you through the process of developing it. From basic solo assignments to advanced leadership practices, you'll learn to: Build self-awareness * Manage emotions * Speak in your authentic voice * Create meaningful connections * Inspire others * Lead with empathy * Support teammates * And more Powerful and practical, Leadership Step by Step will start you on the road to success."

Erwin Library General Collection
Call Number HD57.7 .S697 2017

The Hard Truth about Soft Skills : Workplace Lessons Smart People Wish They'd Learned Sooner

By Peggy Klaus

Published:  2008

ISBN:  9780061284144

Fortune 500 coach Peggy Klaus encounters individuals every day who excel at their jobs but aren't getting where they want to go. It's rarely a shortfall in technical expertise that limits their careers but rather a shortcoming in their social, communication, and self-management behaviors. In The Hard Truth About Soft Skills, Klaus delivers practical tools and techniques for mastering soft skills across the career spectrum.

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HD30.3 .K584 2007

Great Communication Secrets of Great Leaders

By John Baldoni

Published 2003

ISBN: 9780071414968

Great Communication Secrets of Great Leaders gives anyone from managers to executives an unparalleled opportunity to do just that. John Baldoni explores the communication styles of many of the world's most influential leaders and extracts powerful lessons that leaders of all stripes can use to improve their communication skills and overall leadership effectiveness.

Erwin Library General Collection
Call Number HD30.3 .B366 2003

Leading the Unleadable: How to Manage Mavericks, Cynics, Divas, and Other Difficult People

By Alan Willett

Published:  2016

ISBN:  9780814437605

Difficult people are the worst part of a manager's job. Willett teaches you a straightforward process that gently, yet effectively, improves behaviors by revealing a core truth: most people actually want to contribute results, not cause headaches. What sets great managers apart is how they turn their problem players into productive team players.

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HD57.7 .W533 2017

Leadership by Encouragement

By Don Dinkmeyer and Daniel Eckstein

Published: 1996

ISBN: 9781574440089

"Leaders expecting to survive the challenges and associated stress of building their own skill levels have a new tool at their disposal. Leadership by Encouragement is a unique and powerful psychology that will enable you to build an "encouragematic" atmosphere while training leaders to lead.
Written by two of the most experienced writers in the field, Leadership by Encouragement is a unique text that will revolutionize leadership and leadership roles.  This book provides the most practical and motivating exercises available for training leaders. Energize your employees and get yourself involved. Order your copy of Leadership by Encouragement today and begin building an atmosphere of success for everyone in your organization."

Erwin Library General Collection
Call Number HD57.7 .D555 1996

The Leadership Challenge (Sixth Edition)

By James Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner

Published: 2017

ISBN:  9781119278962

This leadership classic ...is the gold standard for research-based leadership, and the premier resource on becoming a leader. This new edition ... has been extensively updated with the latest research and case studies, and offers inspiring new stories of real people achieving extraordinary results. The authors' central theme remains the same and is more relevant today than ever: "Leadership is Everyone's Business." Their "five practices" and "ten commitments" have been proven by hundreds of thousands of dedicated, successful leaders. This edition, with almost one-third new material, emphasizes the global community and refocuses on business leaders.

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HD57.7 .K68 2017

Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die

By Chip Heath and Dan Heath

Published:  2008

ISBN:  9781400064281

Urban legends, conspiracy theories, and bogus public health scares circulate effortlessly. Meanwhile, people with important ideas--business people, teachers, politicians, journalists, and others--struggle to make their ideas "stick." Why do some ideas thrive while others die? And how do we improve the chances of worthy ideas? Educators and idea collectors Chip and Dan Heath reveal the anatomy of ideas that stick and explain ways to make ideas stickier, such as applying the "human scale principle," using the "Velcro Theory of Memory," and creating "curiosity gaps." In this fast-paced tour of success stories (and failures), we discover that sticky messages of all kinds--from the infamous "kidney theft ring" hoax to a coach's lessons on sportsmanship to a vision for a new product at Sony--draw their power from the same six traits. This book will transform the way you communicate ideas.

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HM1033 .H43 2008

Making Conflict Work: Harnessing the Power of Disagreement

By Peter T. Coleman and Robert Ferguson

Published:  2014

ISBN:  9780544148390

A practical guide to navigating workplace conflicts by better understanding the power dynamics at play in every interaction. Contents include: The nature of conflict and power; Power-conflict traps; Conflict intelligence; Pragmatic benevolence; Cultivated support; Constructive dominance: Strategic appeasement; Selective autonomy; Effective adaptivity; Principled rebellion.

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HD42 .C6424 2014

Pedagogy of the Oppressed

By Paulo Freire

Published:  2000

ISBN:  9780826412768

First published in Portuguese in 1968, Pedagogy of the Oppressed was translated and published in English in 1970. The methodology of the late Paulo Freire has helped to empower countless impoverished and illiterate people throughout the world. Freire's work has taken on especial urgency in the United States and Western Europe, where the creation of a permanent underclass among the underprivileged and minorities in cities and urban centers is increasingly accepted as the norm. With a substantive new introduction on Freire's life and the remarkable impact of this book by writer and Freire confidant and authority Donaldo Macedo, this anniversary edition of Pedagogy of the Oppressed will inspire a new generation of educators, students, and general readers for years to come.

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LB880 .F73 P4313 2000

Succeeding as a Student in the STEM Fields with an Invisible Disability: A College Handbook for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math Students with Autisn, ADD, Affective Distorders, or Learning Difficulties and their Families

By Christy Oslund

Published:  2013

ISBN: 9781849059473

The STEM fields (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) attract many students with autism, ADD, affective disorders and related invisible disabilities who are highly intelligent and analytical, but who, upon entering higher education, may find that they struggle with independent living and a different way of learning.

This is a preparation guide for students and their families that explains everything they need to know ... including classroom behavior, study skills, self-reliance, accessing support services, and when parents should and shouldn't get involved. Offering practical advice and strategies, this is a useful handbook that students can refer to again and again throughout their college years guiding them on their paths to becoming the inventors, scientists, engineers, and computer entrepreneurs of the future.

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Teaching and Learning at a Distance: Foundations of Distance Education (Sixth Edition)

By Michael Simonson, Sharon Smaldino, and Susan M. Zvacek

Published:  2015

ISBN:   9781623967987

Teaching and Learning at a Distance is written for introductory distance education courses for preservice or in-service teachers, and for training programs that discuss teaching distant learners or managing distance education systems. This text provides readers with the basic information needed to be knowledgeable distance educators and leaders of distance education programs. The teacher or trainer who uses this book will be able to distinguish between appropriate uses of distance education.

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LC5800 .T43 2015

Teaching to Transgress : Education as the Practice of Freedom

By Bell Hooks

Published:  1994

ISBN:  9780415908078

Hooks begins her meditations on class, gender and race in the classroom with the confession that she never wanted to teach. By combining personal narrative, essay, critical theory, dialogue and a fantasy interview with herself (the latter artificial construct being the least successful), Hooks declares that education today is failing students by refusing to acknowledge their particular histories. Criticizing the teaching establishment for employing an over-factualized knowledge to deny and suppress diversity, Hooks accuses colleagues of using "the classroom to enact rituals of control that were about domination and the unjust exercise of power." Far from a castigation of her field, however, Teaching to Transgress is full of hope and excitement for the possibility of education to liberate and include.

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LC196 .H66 1994

What the Best College Teachers Do

By Ken Bain

Published:  2004

ISBN:  9780674013254

What makes a great teacher great? Who are the professors students remember long after graduation?   The short answer is--it's not what teachers do, it's what they understand. Lesson plans and lecture notes matter less than the special way teachers comprehend the subject and value human learning. Whether historians or physicists, in El Paso or St. Paul, the best teachers know their subjects inside and out--but they also know how to engage and challenge students and to provoke impassioned responses. Most of all, they believe two things fervently: that teaching matters and that students can learn.  What the Best College Teachers Do is a treasure trove of insight and inspiration for first-year teachers and seasoned educators.

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LB2331 .B34 2004

Ebook Edition

Health: Inside and Outside

Mindset: The New Psychology of Success

By Carol S. Dweck

Published:  2016

ISBN:  9780345472328

Dweck explains why it’s not just our abilities and talent that bring us success–but whether we approach them with a fixed or growth mindset. She makes clear why praising intelligence and ability doesn’t foster self-esteem and lead to accomplishment, but may actually jeopardize success. With the right mindset, we can motivate our kids and help them to raise their grades, as well as reach our own goals–personal and professional. Dweck reveals what all great parents, teachers, CEOs, and athletes already know: how a simple idea about the brain can create a love of learning and resilience that is the basis of great accomplishment in every area.

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BF773 .D85 2016

Pathways to Possibility: Transforming Our Relationship with Ourselves, Each Other, and the World

By Rosamund Stone Zander

Published:  2016

ISBN:  9780670025183


As children, we develop stories about how the world works, most of which get improved upon and amended over time. But some do not, even as we mature in other ways.  In her groundbreaking and inspiring new book, Rosamund Stone Zander shows us that life is a story we tell ourselves and that we have the power to change that story. She illuminates how breaking old patterns and telling a new story can transform not just our own lives, but also our relationships with others—whether in a marriage, a classroom, or a business.

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BF637 .S37 Z37 2016

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

By Susan Cain

Published:  2012

ISBN:  9780307352149

Demonstrates how introverted people are misunderstood and undervalued in modern culture, charting the rise of extrovert ideology while sharing anecdotal examples of how to use introvert talents to adapt to various situations.

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BF698.35 .I59 C35 2012

When : The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing

By Daniel H. Pink

Published:  2018

9780735210622

Drawing on a rich trove of research from psychology, biology, and economics, Pink reveals how best to live, work, and succeed. How can we use the hidden patterns of the day to build the ideal schedule? Why do certain breaks dramatically improve student test scores? How can we turn a stumbling beginning into a fresh start? Why should we avoid going to the hospital in the afternoon? Why is singing in time with other people as good for you as exercise? And what is the ideal time to quit a job, switch careers, or get married?

Erwin Library General Collection
Call Number BF468 .P57 2018

Teaching

Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher (Second Edition)

By Stephen D. Brookfield

Published:  2017

ISBN:  9781119049708

This fully revised second edition features a wealth of new material, including new chapters on critical reflection in the context of social media, teaching race and racism, leadership in a critically reflective key, and team teaching as critical reflection. In addition, all chapters have been thoroughly updated and expanded to align with today's classrooms, whether online or face-to-face, in large lecture formats or small groups ... Educators with the courage to challenge their own assumptions in an effort to improve learning are invaluable role models our students need.

 

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LB 2331 .B677 2017

Cheating Lessons: Learning from Academic Dishonesty

By James M. Lang

Published:  2013

ISBN:  9780674724631

Cheating Lessons is a practical guide to tackling academic dishonesty at its roots.

Drawing on an array of findings from cognitive theory, Lang analyzes the specific, often hidden features of course design and daily classroom practice that create opportunities for cheating. Courses that set the stakes of performance very high, that rely on single assessment mechanisms like multiple-choice tests, that have arbitrary grading criteria: these are the kinds of conditions that breed cheating. Lang seeks to empower teachers to create more effective learning environments that foster intrinsic motivation, promote mastery, and instill the sense of self-efficacy that students need for deep learning.

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Continuing to Engage the Online Learner: More Activities and Resources for Creative Instruction

By Rita-Marie Conrad

Published:  2012

ISBN:  9781118000175

Comprehensive in scope, the book provides an introduction to the theory of engaged learning and its design, assessment, and management in online and blended learning environments and describes the types of activities that motivate the online learner in each phase of engagement. This down-to-earth resource also includes 50 new and illustrative activities paired with each phase of engagement. In Continuing to Engage the Online Learner Rita-Marie Conrad and J. Ana Donaldson provide relevant and theoretically-sound information to enhance teaching and engage learners, offering a practical handbook for instructors.

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L 1044.87 .C655 2012

The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life

By Parker J. Palmer

Published:  2007

ISBN: 9780787996864

This book builds on a simple premise: good teaching cannot be reduced to technique but is rooted in the identity and integrity of the teacher. Good teaching takes myriad forms but good teachers share one trait: they are authentically present in the classroom, in community with their students and their subject. They possess "a capacity for connectedness" and are able to weave a complex web of connections between themselves, their subjects, and their students, helping their students weave a world for themselves.

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LB1775 .P25 2007

Creating Self-Regulated Learners

By Linda Nilson and Barry J. Zimmerman

Published:  2013

ISBN: 9781579228668

Linda Nilson provides the theoretical background to student self-regulation, the evidence that it enhances achievement, and the strategies to help students develop it. At a time of so much concern about what our students are learning in college and how well prepared they are for the challenges of tomorrow's economy and society, self-regulated learning provides a reassuring solution, particularly as studies indicate that struggling students benefit the most from practicing it.
 

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LB 1060 .N55 2013

Engaging Ideas: The Professor's Guide to Integrating Writing, Critical Thinking, and Active Learning in the Classroom

By John C. Bean

Published:  2011

ISBN: 9780470532904

Learn to design interest-provoking writing and critical thinking activities and incorporate them into your courses in a way that encourages inquiry, exploration, discussion, and debate, with Engaging Ideas, a practical nuts-and-bolts guide for teachers from any discipline. Integrating critical thinking with writing-across-the-curriculum approaches, the book shows how teachers from any discipline can incorporate these activities into their courses. This edition features new material dealing with genre and discourse community theory, quantitative/scientific literacy, blended and online learning, and other current issues.

 

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PE 1404 .B35 2011

Learner-Centered Teaching:  Putting the Research on Learning Into Practice

By Terry Doyle

Published:  2011

ISBN:  9781579227432

Overview: This book presents the research-based case that Learner Centered Teaching (LCT) offers the best means to optimize student learning in college, and offers examples and ideas for putting it into practice, as well the underlying rationale. It also starts from the premise that many faculty are much closer to being learner centered teachers than they think, but don't have the full conceptual understanding of the process to achieve its full impact. There is sometimes a gap between what we would like to achieve in our teaching and the knowledge and strategies needed to make it happen. LCT keeps all of the good features of a teacher-centered approach and applies them in ways that are in better harmony with how our brains learn.

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LB1027.23 .D69 2011

Minds Online: Teaching Effectively with Technology

By Michelle D. Miller

Published:  2014

ISBN:  9780674660021

For the Internet generation, educational technology designed with the brain in mind offers a natural pathway to the pleasures and rewards of deep learning. Drawing on neuroscience and cognitive psychology, Michelle Miller shows how attention, memory, critical thinking, and analytical reasoning can be enhanced through technology-aided approaches.

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On Course: A Week-by-Week Guide to Your First Semester of College Teaching

By James M. Lang

Published: 2008

ISBN: 9780674028067

Practical and lively, On Course is full of experience-tested, research-based advice for graduate students and new teaching faculty. It provides a range of innovative and traditional strategies that work well without requiring extensive preparation or long grading sessions when you’re trying to meet your own demanding research and service requirements. What do you put on the syllabus? How do you balance lectures with group assignments or discussions—and how do you get a dialogue going when the students won’t participate? What grading system is fairest and most efficient for your class? Should you post lecture notes on a website? How do you prevent cheating, and what do you do if it occurs? How can you help the student with serious personal problems without becoming overly involved? And what do you do about the student who won’t turn off his cell phone?

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Teaching at Its Best: A Research-Based Resource for College Instructors (Fourth Edition)

By Linda Burzotta Nilson

Published:  2016

ISBN:  9780470401040

This thoroughly revised edition includes the newest portrait of the Millennial student; current research from cognitive psychology; a focus on outcomes maps; the latest legal options on copyright issues; and how to best use new technology including wikis, blogs, podcasts, vodcasts, and clickers. Entirely new chapters include subjects such as matching teaching methods with learning outcomes, inquiry-guided learning, and using visuals to teach, and new sections address Felder and Silverman's Index of Learning Styles, SCALE-UP classrooms, multiple true-false test items, and much more.

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LB2331 .N55 2016

Teaching for Critical Thinking:  Tools and Techniques to Help Students Question Their Assumptions

By Stephen Brookfield

Published:  2012

ISBN:  9780470889343

In Teaching for Critical Thinking, Stephen Brookfield builds on his last three decades of experience running workshops and teaching courses on critical thinking to explore how student learn to think this way, and what teachers can do the help students develop this capacity. He outlines a basic protocol of critical thinking as a learning process that focuses on uncovering and checking assumptions, exploring alternative perspectives, and taking informed actions as a result. Written to address the broad range of disciplines, this book fosters a shared understanding of critical thinking and helps to various constituencies adapt general principles to specific disciplinary contexts.

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BF441 .B7915 2012

Teaching Men of Color in the Community College: A Guidebook

By Luke J. Wood

Published:  2015

ISBN:   9780744229523

 
Presents promising teaching and learning strategies that classroom faculty can use to support the success of men of color in the community college. Recommendations are derived from faculty leaders with a proven record of success in teaching men of color.

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LC2781 .W66 2015

Teaching What You Don't Know

By Therese Huston

Publshed:  2009

ISBN:  9780674035805

Everyone in academia knows it and no one likes to admit it: faculty often have to teach courses in areas they don't know very well. The challenges are even greater when students don't share your cultural background, lifestyle, or assumptions about how to behave in a classroom.

Encouraging faculty to think of themselves as learners rather than as experts, Therese Huston points out that authority in the classroom doesn't come only, or even mostly, from perfect knowledge. She offers tips for introducing new topics in a lively style, for gauging students' understanding, for reaching unresponsive students, for maintaining discussions when they seem to stop dead, and -yes- for dealing with those impossible questions.

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LB2331 .H875 2009

Ebook Edition

Tools for Teaching (Second Edition)

By Barbara Gross Davis

Published:  2009

ISBN:  9780787965679

This is the long-awaited update on the bestselling book that offers a practical, accessible reference manual for faculty in any discipline. This new edition contains up-to-date information on technology as well as expanding on the ideas and strategies presented in the first edition. It includes more than sixty-one chapters designed to improve the teaching of beginning, mid-career, or senior faculty members. The topics cover both traditional tasks of teaching as well as broader concerns, such as diversity and inclusion in the classroom and technology in educational settings.

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LB2331 .D37 2009

Administration: Community Colleges

The Adjunct Faculty Handbook (Second Edition)

By Lori E. Cooper and Bryan A. Booth

Published:  2010

ISBN:  9781412975193

Key Features:

  • Provides important tools for adjunct instructors, including handy checklists, sample syllabi, evaluation forms, and case studies
  • Offers a full chapter on the role of technology in teaching and learning, plus another on future trends, including network technologies
  • Covers the increased emphasis on student evaluations and learning outcomes assessment as well as changes in classroom dynamics and what these mean for today's adjunct faculty
  • Addresses both theory and skill, covering topics such as course planning, teaching strategies, theories of learning, cooperative learning, student evaluations, Web 2.0, professional development, and more
  • Includes practical advice for designing policies for adjunct programs and for evaluating adjunct instructors, who comprise more than two-thirds of the college instructors in the United States today

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The Adult Learner: The Definitive Classic in Adult Education and Human Resource Development (Eighth Edition)

By Malcolm S. Knowles, Elwood F. Holton, III and Richard A. Swanson

Published: 2015

ISBN: 9780415739016

How do you tailor education to the learning needs of adults? Do they learn differently from children?  How does their life experience inform their learning processes?  These were the questions at the heart of Malcolm Knowles’s pioneering theory of andragogy which transformed education theory in the 1970s.

This eighth edition has been thoughtfully updated in terms of structure, content, and style. On top of this, online material and added chapter-level reflection questions make this classic text more accessible than ever. The new edition includes: Two new chapters: Neuroscience and Andragogy, and Information Technology and Learning; updates throughout the book to reflect the very latest advancements in the field; a companion website with instructor aids for each chapter.

If you are a researcher, practitioner or student in education, an adult learning practitioner, training manager, or involved in human resource development, this is the definitive book in adult learning that you should not be without.

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LC5225 .L42 K56 2015

Going the Distance: A Handbook for Part-Time & Adjunct Faculty Who Teach Online (Revised First Edition)

By Evelyn Beck and Donald Greive

Published:  2008

ISBN:  9780940017023

Whether you're just thinking about teaching online, a first-time online course facilitator, or you are an experienced distance educator, Going the Distance: A Handbook for Part-Time & Adjunct Faculty Who Teach Online will help you sharpen your online teaching skills, develop and deliver more richly-structured distance education courses.

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LB2395.7 .B43 2008

A Handbook for Adjunct/Part-Time Faculty and Teachers of Adults (Seventh Edition)

By Donald Greive and Patricia Lesko

Published:  2011

ISBN:  9780940017368
 
This is more than just a teacher's manual! This little powerhouse, revised, expanded, and more in-depth than ever, helps adjuncts tackle the day-to-day problems associated with teaching part-time. From course planning to teaching adult students, this book offers practical suggestions, strategies and advice. With over 220,000 copies sold, A Handbook; provides adjuncts with the contents of a first-rate teaching workshop for a fraction of the price.

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LB2331 .G72 2011

Redesigning America's Community Colleges: A Clearer Path to Student Success

By Thomas R. Bailey, Shanna Smith Jaggers, and Davis Jenkins

Published:  2015

ISBN:  9780674368286

Community colleges were originally designed to expand college enrollments at low cost, not to maximize completion of high-quality programs of study. The result was a cafeteria-style model in which students pick courses from a bewildering array of choices, with little guidance. The authors urge administrators and faculty to reject this traditional model in favor of “guided pathways”―clearer, more educationally coherent programs of study that simplify students’ choices without limiting their options and that enable them to complete credentials and advance to further education and the labor market more quickly and at less cost.

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LB2328 .B26 2015

Re-visioning Community Colleges: Positioning for Innovation

By Debbie Sydow and Richard L. Alfred

Published:  2013

ISBN:  9781442214866

Re-visioning Community Colleges traces the development and generational evolution of community colleges, explores the past success and future capacity of community colleges as disruptive innovators, and analyzes this sector’s unique advantages and vulnerabilities. Ultimately, Sydow and Aflred presents alternative futures for community colleges as they—like all sectors of higher education—face rapidly changing environmental forces and conditions. Re-visioning, the primary thrust of the book, is the process of foresight into the shape that community colleges will likely take in the future, on the basis of their growth and innovation trajectory and in response to the dramatic industry shift that is currently underway in the higher education enterprise

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LB2328.15 .U6 S94 2013

STEM Models of Success: Programs, Policies, and Practices in the Community College

By J. Luke Wood

Published:  2014

ISBN:  9781623964825

Community colleges serve the lion's share of the nation's postsecondary students ... [and]account for nearly 30% of all STEM undergraduate majors in postsecondary institutions. These students serve as a core element of the STEM pipeline into four-year colleges and universities via the community college transfer function. Moreover, community colleges are the primary postsecondary access point for non-traditional students, including students of color, first-generation, low-income, and adult students ... Increasing success among these populations can contribute significantly to advancing the nation's interests in STEM. As such, the community college is situated as an important site for innovative practices that have strong implications for bolstering the nation's production and sustenance of a STEM labor force.

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Yes We Can!: A Community College Guide for Developing America's Underprepared

By Robert H. McCabe

Published:  2003

ISBN:  9781931300346

Champion the mission of developmental education and support the effort to advocate for the underprepared with the unflinching Robert McCabe, author of No One to Waste. This is your opportunity to capitalize on today's high level of interest in developmental education among public decision makers and community college leaders with the guidance of McCabe's Yes We Can! Enlightenment and program enrichment comes from in-depth discussions of learning and curricula, technology, placement and assessment, and English as a second language, as well as close-ups of effective community college programs and practices.League for Innovation in the Community College and AACC.

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LB2331.2 .M35 2003