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A comprehensive Classroom Essentials Guide that provides a wealth of information for pedagogy, professional development, resources especially for adjuncts, and more.

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From the TED Site: It took a life-threatening condition to jolt chemistry teacher Ramsey Musallam out of ten years of "pseudo-teaching" to understand the true role of the educator: to cultivate curiosity. In a fun and personal talk, Musallam gives 3 rules to spark imagination and learning, and get students excited about how the world works.

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99 Tips for Creating Simple and Sustainable Educational Videos (Ebook)

If you've been wanting to include videos in your teaching, but haven't found the time or confidence, this book will help you to develop a simple and sustainable video development process, supporting both your success and the success of your students.

2600 Phrases for Effective Performance Reviews: Ready-to-Use Words and Phrases That Really Get Results (Ebook)

This trusted reference puts thousands of ready-to-use words, phrases, descriptions, and action items right at your fingertips -- perfect for review time, creating development plans, and monitoring performance year-round.

Adjunct Faculty Voices (Ebook)

Stories abound regarding the poor working conditions in which most adjunct faculty labor, yet many of those that employ adjunct faculty are unaware of how the conditions impact an adjunct's ability to teach effectively. Adjunct Faculty Voices gives a voice to this growing population.

American Higher Education in the 21st Century: Social, Political, and Economic Challenges

An indispensable reference for anyone concerned with the future of American colleges and universities. Whether it is advances in information technology, organized social movements, or racial inequality and social class stratification, higher education serves as a lens for examining significant issues within American society.

Care and Culturally Responsive Pedagogy in Online Settings (Ebook)

A collection of innovative research on the incorporation of culturally sensitive teaching practices in online classrooms, and how these methods have had an impact on student learning.

Centers for Teaching and Learning: The New Landscape in Higher Education (Ebook)

Provides a broad picture of educational development in the United States and examines trends in what CTLs aim to accomplish, key strategies for reaching these goals, programs and services they offer, and their impacts on campuses.

Connected Teaching (Ebook)

This book explores teaching as a relational practice - a practice wherein connection and disconnection with students, power, identity, and emotion shape the teaching and learning endeavor.

Creating Significant Learning Experiences

This edition shows how to use a taxonomy of significant learning and systematically combine the best research-based practices for learning-centered teaching with a teaching strategy in a way that results in powerful learning experiences for students.

Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain (Ebook)

In this book, Zaretta Hammond draws on cutting-edge neuroscience research to offer an innovative approach for designing and implementing brain-compatible culturally responsive instruction.

Developing Faculty Learning Communities at Two-Year Colleges

This book introduces community college faculty and faculty developers to the use of faculty learning communities (FLCs) as a means for faculty themselves to investigate and surmount student learning problems they encounter in their classrooms.

Engaging in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (Ebook)

This is a book for anyone who has ever considered engaging in the scholarship of teaching and learning - known familiarly as SoTL - and needs a better understanding of what it is, and how to engage in it.

Exploring Signature Pedagogies (Ebook)

How do individual disciplines foster deep learning, and get students to think like disciplinary experts? With contributions from the sciences, humanities, and the arts, this book critically explores how to best foster student learning within and across the disciplines.

Exploring More Signature Pedagogies (Ebook)

By analyzing assumptions about often unexamined teaching practices, their history, and relevance in contemporary learning contexts, this book offers teachers a fresh way to both think about their impact on students and explore more effective ways to engage students in authentic habits and practices.

Facilitating Seven Ways of Learning

Research on learning clearly demonstrates that learning is not one thing, but many. The authors provide the reader with a conceptual approach for selecting appropriate teaching strategies for different types of content, and for achieving specific learning objectives.

From Equity Talk to Equity Walk (Ebook)

This indispensable guide presents academic administrators and staff with advice on building an equity-minded campus culture, aligning strategic priorities and institutional missions to advance equity, understanding equity-minded data analysis, developing campus strategies for making excellence inclusive, and moving from a first-generation equity educator to an equity-minded practitioner.

The High Impact ePortfolio Practice (Ebook)

The authors outline how to deploy the ePortfolio as a high-impact practice and describe widely-applicable models of effective ePortfolio pedagogy and implementation that demonstrably improve student learning across multiple settings.

High-Impact Practices Online (Ebook)

This volume offers the first comprehensive guide to how high-impact practices (HIPs) are being implemented in online environments and how they can be adjusted to meet the needs of online learners.

The New Science of Learning

Learning to learn is the key skill for tomorrow. This breakthrough book builds the foundation every student needs, from freshman orientation to graduate school.

POGIL (Ebook)

Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning (POGIL) is a pedagogy has been shown to be effective in a variety of content areas and at different educational levels. This is an introduction to the process.

Practical Leadership in Community Colleges (Ebook)

Delves into issues brought about by changing demographics, federal and state mandates, public demand, economic cycles, student unrest, employee groups, trustees, college supporters, and more to provide practical guidance toward optimal outcomes for all stakeholders.

Service-Learning Essentials (Ebook)

Develop high-quality service-learning experiences for college students. Written by one of the field's leading experts, the book responds clearly and completely to the most common questions and concerns about service-learning.

Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons From the Science of Learning

A freshly updated edition featuring research-based teaching techniques that faculty in any discipline can easily implement.

Taking College Teaching Seriously - Pedagogy Matters!: Fostering Student Success Through Faculty-Centered Practice Improvement

This book presents a model of embedded professional development, which capitalizes on the affordances of technology to enable groups of faculty to examine their practice in a non-evaluative context, but with a clear focus on improvement.

Teaching Across Cultural Strengths: A Guide to Balancing Integrated and Individuated Cultural Frameworks in College Teaching (Ebook)

This comprehensive guide addresses the continuing gaps in our knowledge about the role of culture in learning; and offers an empirically-based framework and model, together with practical strategies, to assist faculty in transforming college teaching for all their students through an understanding of and teaching to their strengths.

Teaching Interculturally (Ebook)

This book provides faculty and instructors with a theoretical foundation, practical tools, and an iterative and reflective process for designing and implementing an intercultural pedagogy.

Teaching with AI: A Practical Guide to a New Era of Human Learning (Ebook)

From interactive learning techniques to advanced assignment and assessment strategies, this comprehensive guide offers practical suggestions for integrating AI effectively into teaching and learning environments.

Trans* in College

This is both a personal book that offers an account of the author's own trans* identity and a deeply engaged study of trans* collegians that reveals the complexities of trans* identities, and how these students navigate the trans* oppression present throughout society and their institutions, create community and resilience, and establish meaning and control in a world that assumes binary genders.

What's Next for Student Veterans?

Veterans from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have enrolled in colleges and universities in record numbers. This new edited collection presents findings with a focus on data-driven evidence of academic success factors, including persistence, retention, degree completion, and employment after college.

When We Hear Them: Attuning Teachers to Language-Diverse Learners (Ebook)

This book puts forward practical tools and applicable theories for enhancing the listening skills and pedagogical approaches of teachers and educators in the context of language-minoritized and multilingual learners.

You Are a Data Person: Strategies for Using Analytics on Campus (Ebook)

You Are a Data Person provides context for the levels at which you are currently comfortable using data, helps you identify both the areas where you should strengthen your knowledge and where you can use this knowledge in your particular university role.

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