Summer Reading List & CTLT Lending Library

May 8, 2007

If you’re looking for a good book or two to read this summer, below is a small sampling of “best bets” from our CTLT lending library.

For a full listing of titles, visit our CTLT Lending Library Webpage. Most titles can be checked out for 2-4 weeks, so give us a call (2-6898)/ email (ctlt@bgsu.edu) to make reservations or just stop in and browse the offerings.

If you have additional selections of interest or suggestions for other faculty or graduate students, please leave them in the COMMENTS area below this posting!


TEACHING & LEARNING

  • What the Best College Teachers Do by Ken Bain
  • Learner-Centered Teaching: Five Key Changes to Practice by Maryellen Weimer
  • Creating Significant Learning Experiences: An Integrated Approach to Designing College Courses by L. Dee Fink
  • The Joy of Teaching: A Practical Guide for New College Instructors by Peter Filene
  • Mckeachie’s Teaching Tips: Strategies, Research And Theory for College And University Teachers (College Teaching) by Wilbert James McKeachie
  • First-Order Principles for College Teachers: Ten Basic Ways to Improve the Teaching Process by Robert Boice
  • Teaching with Your Mouth Shut by Donald L. Finkel
  • How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School: Expanded Edition by National Research Council
  • My Freshman Year: What a Professor Learned by Becoming a Student by Rebekah Nathan

NEW FACULTY

  • Faculty in New Jobs: A Guide to Settling In, Becoming Established, and Building Institutional Support by Robert J. Menges
  • Mckeachie’s Teaching Tips: Strategies, Research And Theory for College And University Teachers (College Teaching) by Wilbert James McKeachie

TECHNOLOGY/FUTURE ISSUES

  • Teaching Online: A Practical Guide by Susan Schor Ko and Steve Rossen
  • A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future by Daniel Pink
  • The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More by Chris Anderson

FACULTY-RELATED FICTION

  • The Missing Professor: An Academic Mystery / Informal Case Studies / Discussion Stories for Faculty Development, New Faculty Orientation and Campus Conversations by Thomas B. Jones

PUBLISHING/SCHOLARSHIP

  • Publish and Flourish: Become a Prolific Scholar by Tara Gray


Share some of your favorite teaching, learning, or faculty-related books by clicking on the COMMENTS link below to get started!


Entry Filed under: Uncategorized. Posted in  Uncategorized Tags: , , .

One thought on “Summer Reading List & CTLT Lending Library

  1.    Anonymous  |  May 8th, 2007 at 9:41 pm     

    Wow, I did not know that the CTLT had a library of books that faculty could checkout. Its another valuable resource that I plan to take advantage of in the future.



Interact to...

Promote an institution-wide dialogue among faculty, staff and graduate students with an interest in teaching and learning - with or without technology.

Welcome to
INTERACT AT THE CENTER!

The Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) @ BGSU looks forward to your engaging comments on issues related to teaching and learning.

If you would like to be a part of the "Interact Community," simply click on the ADD COMMENT link at the bottom of a posting and share your thoughts, experiences, or both.

If you have any suggestions for future discussions, please email ctl@bgsu.edu

Return to The Center

Tags

Archives

Meta

Subscribe via email

Enter your email address:

Delivered by FeedBurner