Davis, B.G. Tools for Teaching. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1993.
A compendium of classroom-tested strategies and suggestions designed to improve the teaching practices of all college instructors, including beginning, mid-career, and senior faculty members. The book describes 49 teaching tools that cover both traditional practical tasks—writing a course syllabus, delivering an effective lecture—as well as newer, broader concerns such as responding to diversity on campus and coping with budget constraints.
Available at the UCB campus library (call # LB2331.D37). The entire book is also available online as part of netLibrary (accessible only through computers connected to the UC Berkeley campus network). It is available for purchase at the Cal Student Store textbook department, the publisher, and Amazon.
Please note: some of the chapters below have been modified from the original version.
Table of contents
Getting Underway
1. Preparing or Revising a Course
2. The
Course Syllabus
3. The
First Day of Class
Responding to a Diverse Student Body
4. Academic Accommodations
for Students with Disabilities
5. Diversity
and Complexity in the Classroom: Considerations of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender
6. Reentry
Students
7. Teaching
Academically Diverse Students
Discussion Strategies
8. Leading a Discussion
9. Encouraging
Student Participation in Discussion
10. Asking
Questions
11. Fielding
Students' Questions
Lecture Strategies
12. Preparing to Teach the Large Lecture
Course
13. Delivering
a Lecture
14. Explaining
Clearly
15. Personalizing
the Large Lecture Class
16. Supplements
and Alternatives to Lecturing: Encouraging Student Participation
17. Maintaining
Instructional Quality with Limited Resources
Collaborative and Experiential Strategies
18. Collaborative
Learning: Group Work and Study Teams
19. Role Playing and Case Studies
20. Field Work
Enhancing Students' Learning and Motivation
21. Helping Students Learn
22. Learning
Styles and Preferences
23. Motivating
Students
Writing Skills and Homework Assignments
24. Helping Students Write Better in
All Courses
25. Designing
Effective Writing Assignments
26. Evaluating
Students' Written Work
27. Homework:
Problem Sets
Testing and Grading
28. Quizzes, Tests, and Exams
29. Allaying
Students' Anxieties About Tests
30. Multiple-Choice
and Matching Tests
31. Short-Answer
and Essay Tests
32. Grading
Practices
33. Calculating
and Assigning Grades
34. Preventing
Academic Dishonesty
Instructional Media and Technology
35. Chalkboards
36. Flipcharts
37. Transparencies
and Overhead Projectors
38. Slides
39. Films
and Videotapes
40. Computers
and Multimedia
Evaluation to Improve Teaching
41. Fast Feedback
42. Watching Yourself on Videotape
43. Self-Evaluation and the Teaching Dossier
Teaching Outside the Classroom
44. Holding Office Hours
45. Academic Advising and Mentoring Undergraduates
46. Guiding, Training, and Supervising Graduate Student Instructors
Finishing Up
47. The Last Days of Class
48. Student Rating Forms
49. Writing Letters of Recommendation
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