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The New Faculty Developer's Library

Consider this a "starter set" of resources of which most faculty developers should be at least aware. There are many more great resources out there! ( indicates an external link and opens in a new browser window.)


Electronic mailing lists

The POD List
A lively but meaningful list that moves like a spotlight across the concerns of faculty developers in higher education. This is where you "keep your finger on the pulse" of concerns facing us all.

DEOS-L
If you support online instructors, this is a lively and substantive list. Many helpful and very experienced folks.


General periodicals

 

To Improve the Academy

A cross-disciplinary journal exclusive for faculty developers. If not all the articles in an issue are useful to you right now, their insights and recommendations will prepare you for when you do face the dilemmas they discuss. A priceless resource, a subscription to which is included in POD's yearly membership fee.

More on this journal at: To Improve the Academy


College Teaching

Each issue includes practical ideas and new strategies for successful teaching. An especially popular page, The Quick Fix, presents easy-to-implement techniques and tips. Special sections integrate scholarship on teaching and classroom practice.

More on this journal at: Heldref Publications


Journal on Excellence in College Teaching

For faculty at both universities and two- and four-year colleges, this journal reponds to Ernest Boyer's (1990) call for a forum to present the scholarship of teaching and learning. The Journal provides a scholarly, written forum for discussion by faculty about all areas affecting teaching and learning, and gives faculty the opportunity to share proven, innovative pedagogies and thoughtful, inspirational insights about teaching.

More on this journal at: The Electronic Journal Web site


Journal of Faculty Development

Covers professional development activities at 2-year and 4-year colleges as well as universities. Addresses both the practical and theoretical aspects of the planning, design, implementation and evaluation of individual and organizational development.

More on this journal at: New Forums Press


Journal on Graduate TA Development

Published three times a year, the JGTAD is a guide to the study of improved training, employment and administration of higher ed. teaching assistant development.

More on this journal at: ITL Publications


Innovative Higher Education

A useful journal whose editorial goals are: to present descriptions and evaluations of innovations and provocative new ideas, to focus on the effect of innovations on teaching and students; to be open to diverse forms of scholarship and research methods, and
to strike a balance between practice and theory by presenting manuscripts in a readable and scholarly manner to both faculty and administrators in the academic community.

More on this journal at: IHE Publications


National Teaching & Learning Forum

Began in 1991 as a joint venture with the ERIC Clearinghouse on Higher Education, the National Teaching and Learning Forum has achieved critical acclaim and popular success with its wide-ranging approach: the contents range as widely as good conversation, from the latest findings of cognitive psychology on attention span and their practical implications for teaching to the relevance of Dante, Shakespeare and Milton to the lives of today's more gender-aware and ethnically diverse students.

More on this journal at: The NTLF website


New Directions in Teaching and Learning

A quarterly journal about issues effecting teachers in higher education. Each journal focuses on a topic or theme and includes chapters from many authors and viewpoints. Articles illuminate trends, priorities and values in higher education; many include rubber-meets-the-road practical advice.

More on this journal at: Jossey-Bass/Wiley


The Teaching Professor

More of a newsletter than a journal, the Teaching Professor is a nice, crisp publication discussing professional topics and instructional approaches that cut across disciplines. A staple at many faculty development centers.

More on this journal at: Magna Publications

General books


The Job of Faculty Development (Start Here!)


A Guide to Faculty Development: Practical Advice, Examples, and Resources
Kay Herr Gillespie, Editor- Linda R. Hilsen & Emily C. Wadsworth, Associate Editors

According to AAHE, "It is difficult to think of this book as anything other than the definitive book on faculty development." Indeed, this is a must-have for any new faculty developer--providing everything from advice on administrative issues to model handouts your can use at your first workshop. It is difficult to overstate how helpful this book can be to a new faculty developer.

More on this book at: Amazon


Face to Face
Karron Lewis

A sourcebook of individual consultation techniques for faculty/instructional developers. Provides an overview of the skills and techniques needed for successful one-to-one consulting, lists of resources for information about faculty/instructional development, and detailed descriptions of a variety of individual consultation techniques with case studies to show the application of these techniques. Most chapters contain references for additional reading and many chapters contain samples of written handouts and materials used in the processes.

More on this book at: Amazon


Peer Review of Teaching
Nancy Van Note Chism

This tremendously useful, step-by-step book guides the reader through the process of developing constructive instructional feedback for one's peers--from evaluating the syllabus to observing in the classroom. Filled with worksheets and rubrics, this book even steps the reader through the process of developing a healthy peer review system, above and beyond the individual formitive or summative evaluation of a particular instructor.

More on this book at: Amazon



The Experience and Purpose of Teaching


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

A must-read for every faculty developer. Parker Palmer speaks to what we all feel as teachers: why we teach, the internal and external conflicts of which teaching consists, the pursuit of learning, knowing and teaching in community that we all desire. Good medicine for the burned-out.

More on this book at: Amazon

 


Practical Teaching Advice (Sorted in order of recommended acquisition)


Teaching Tips: Strategies, Research, and Theory for College and University Teachers
Wilbert McKeachie, et al.

Now in it's 13th edition, Teaching Tips has been a resource for teachers and faculty developers for years. In addition to offering practical solutions, the authors usually spend some time describing the issue behind the problem. Filled with many specific tips and short reflective articles, it does not take long with this book to come up with new ideas or solutions for classroom quandaries.

More on this book at: Amazon


Tools for Teaching
Barbara Gross Davis

Tools for Teaching focuses more on brief practical suggestions, with fewer issue discussions than Teaching Tips. These two books complement each other wonderfully, and both demand a place on the faculty developer's shelf.

More on this book at: Amazon


Active Learning: 101 Strategies to Teach Any Subject
Mel Silberman

Active Learning is a treasure trove of concrete, step-by-step techniques for approaching almost any teaching situation in almost any subject. It is a must-have for faculty developers looking for an instant toolbox.

More on this book at: Amazon


Classroom Assessment Techniques: A Handbook for College Teachers
Thomas Angelo and Patricia Cross

Classroom assessment techniques (CATs) are a wonderful way for instructors to get quick, no-anxiety feedback from their students. CATs are not quizzes or exams, they are short exercises (like the classic "one minute papers") that produce information for the instructor about what their students are "getting" or not.

More on this book at: Amazon


Effective Grading
Barbara Waalvord and Virginia Johnson Anderson

Classroom assessment techniques (CATs) are a wonderful way for instructors to get quick, no-anxiety feedback from their students. CATs are not quizzes or exams, they are short exercises (like the classic "one minute papers") that produce information for the instructor about what their students are "getting" or not.

More on this book at: Amazon


Understanding by Design
Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe

You'll find this book highly-reviewed anywhere it is rated. The first half discuses exactly what we mean when we say we want our students to "understand" something, and the last half is full of useful guidance on designing a curriculum that really "has legs." If you work with teachers who want to redesign a course (or courses), this is a great tool to have at your side.

More on this book at: Amazon


Learning and Motivation in the Postsecondary Classroom
Marilla D. Svinicki

This refreshing book translates much of what educational psychologists know about how people learn into very readable language. It then extrapolates practical teaching advice from what the literature tells us. An enjoyable and very substantive peek "behind the curtain" at the state of educational psychology research today and how we can benefit from it in our own classrooms. The witty tone in this book makes it feel like you are having coffee with the author.

More on this book at: Amazon


Creating Significant Learning Experiences
L. Dee Fink

Fink lays out a compelling model that re-visions our goals in the classroom. This books is a real step toward re-humanizing the educational experience and making it as joyful as we all know in our hearts that it can be. Not for the inexperienced or conservative instructor.

More on this book at: Amazon

 


Online Education


The Online Educator
Marguertia McVay Lynch

A wonderful overview of the online learning enterprise--for both administrators and teachers. Comprehensive but not burdensome, this book provides a useful framework of current issues and approaches to online distance education from a very experienced source. Dr. Lynch also moderates DEOS-L, a substantive and lively listserv for those involved in teaching online. DEOS-L makes a nice companion to the POD list.

More on this book at: Amazon


E-Moderating
Gilly Salmon

Salmon presents an insightful and practical model of how the online student's needs change from the moment of first access, through online socialization and information exchange, into knowledge construction and further development. Anyone who has taken or taught an online course will recognize the validity of her model and will value the many practical "resources for practitioners" appendices.

More on this book at: Amazon


Discipline-specific teaching journals

"How to use this list"
by TeachingCoach list subscriber Derek Bruff (Thanks Derek!)

Our Center for Teaching is organized in part around liaison relationships with departments. So, for instance, I'm the Center for Teaching liaison to mathematics, economics, political science, psychology, and several other departments. The idea is that as I work with these particular departments over time, I'll get a better feel for ways in which the Center can support the teaching done in those departments and develop some (probably not a lot) pedagogical content knowledge in those disciplines. At any rate, I think the list of discipline-specific teaching journals is nifty because I hope to subscribe to table-of-content services for as many of the journals in my liaison disciplines as I can. There's no way I can read all those journals, but I can at least keep an eye on their tables of contents and forward articles of interest to faculty I'm working with. Here are the other lists I've found:

Accounting
Issues in Accounting Education
Journal of Accounting Education


Anthropology
Anthropology and Education


Art
Art Education
Journal of Aesthetic Education
Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism
Studies in Art Education


Behavioral Science

Behavioral Science Teacher
Journal of Applied Behavioral Science
Small Group Behavior


Biology
American Biology Teacher
Cell Biology Education
Journal of Biological Education
Microbiology Education


Business
Journal of Education for Business
Organizational Behavior Teaching Review


Business Education

Business Education Forum
DPE Journal (Delta Pi Epsilon)
NABTE Review (National Association of Business Teacher Education)


Business, International
Journal of Teaching in International Business


Chemistry
Journal of Chemical Education


Communications/Speech

Communication Education


Computer Science
Computer Science Education


Economics
The Journal of Economic Education
Social Education / The Journal of National Council for the Social Studies


Education
Action in Teacher Education
Journal of Teacher Education
Teaching College


Educational Psychology
Educational Psychologist
Journal of Educational Psychology
Teaching Psychology

Engineering
American Society for Engineering Education


English
College Composition and Communication
College English
Research in the Teaching of English


Finance
Financial Practice & Education
Journal of Financial Education


Geography
Journal of Geography
Journal of Geography in Higher Education

Geology
Journal of Geological Education


History
The History Teacher
Teaching History: A Journal of Methods


Journalism/Mass Communication
Journalism Educator
Media and Methods


Management
Journal of Management Education

Marketing
Journal of Marketing Education
Marketing Education Review


Mathematics
College Mathematics Journal
International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology
Mathematica Militaris
PRIMUS: Problems, Resources, and Issues in Mathematics Undergraduate Studies


Modern Languages
ADFL Bulletin (Association of Departments of Foreign Languages) Canadian Modern Language Review Foreign Language Annals International Review of Applied Linguistics Modern Language Journal


Music
Council for Research in Music Education
Instrumentalists
Journal of Research in Music Education
Music Educators Journal
UPDATE: Applications of Research in Music Education


Nursing
Journal of Nursing Education Nurse Educator


Philosophy
Metaphilosophy
Teaching Philosophy


Physical Education
Journal of Physical Education, Recreation, & Dance
Journal of Teaching Physical Education Strategies


Physics
American Journal of Physics
Physics Teacher


Political Science
Political Science Teacher
Teaching Political Science


Psychology
Educational Psychologist
Journal of Educational Psychology
Teaching Psychology

Religion
Teaching Theology and Religion

Science
Instructional Science
Journal of College Science Teaching
Journal of Research in Science Teaching
Journal of Science Teacher Education


Social Studies
Social Education/The Journal of the National Council for the Social Studies


Social Work
Journal of Education for Social Work
Journal of Teaching Social Work


Sociology
Sociology of Education
Teaching Sociology


Statistics
The American Statistician
Journal of Statistics Education
Statistics Education Research Journal
STATS
Teaching Statistics


Theater
Theater Topics


Women's Education
The Feminist Teacher

 

 

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