One of the best resources for college professors available.

Provides practical solutions to common difficulties encountered in teaching.

Addresses how to foster critical thinking across an institution, beginning with how it can be explained in syllabi and even integrated into strategic plans and institutional missions. Stresses the importance of teachers' modeling critical thinking.

Thoughtful, passionate, and informed, the volume is a must read for anyone interested in deepening their understanding of theological teaching and learning.

A collection of essays from experienced seminary and college professors provides invaluable guidance.

Offers both inspiration and practical advice.

Shows how to plan, conduct, and assess classroom discussions. Suggests exercises for starting discussions, strategies for maintaining their momentum, and ways to elicit diverse views and voices.

By exploring the core principles of respect, reciprocity, and shared responsibility, readers will learn how to conceive of higher education as a collaborative process of sharing insights, as well as how to put this deepened conception to practice.

Presents the very latest in ideas and strategies for college teaching: thousands of tools, tips, and methods, all grounded in research and best practices of faculty.

Provides instructional strategies and advice on how to enhance large class settings.

An invaluable for creating learning experiences to challenge students to think deeply.

Full of practical advice and ideas for teachers who are striving to increase student engagement and learning supported by research. Well organized and accessible.

The most well-respected resource on classroom assessment for college professors. There is a 2nd edition as well.

Explores how dialogue education has been applied in educational settings around the world.

A hands-on, practical guide to designing effective learning tasks for diverse learners and diverse content.

Vella sees the path to learning as a holistic, integrated, spiritual, and energetic process.

Offers new ways to engage people and energize groups.

Offers hundreds of practical strategies that can immediately be implemented in the classroom.

Practical ideas for bolstering academic success and wellbeing of first-generation college students, based on interviews with first-year college students.

Co-authored by a faculty member and an administrator, this book offers a new framework for the faculty member's role in the Christian university.

Edited volume that brings together numerous voices of professors who are infusing Christian practices into their teaching.

Draws from Christian metaphors throughout church history to encourage teachers to imagine a uniquely Christian framework for their pedagogy.

Focuses on creative resources.

Applies biblical themes to pedagogical practice.

Accessible resource that breaks down the concept of worldview.

Encourages the thinking Christian to see learning as vocation.

A primer on how academic disciplines relate to the Christian faith.

Provides theoretical foundations and practical principles for purposeful curriculum design, as well as tools for integrated and contextually significant learning in the classroom.

Describes elements in classroom pedagogies shared across religious traditions that distinctively integrate the cognitive, practical, and normative apprenticeships to be found in all forms of professional education.

The concept of “heart-deep teaching and learning” is based on a Hebrew understanding of the “heart” as the innermost essence of a person that involves the mind, emotions, and will.

Drawing upon new research in psychology, education, and cognitive science, the authors have demystified a complex topic into clear explanations of seven powerful learning principles. Full of great ideas and practical suggestions, all based on solid research evidence.

Learner-centered teaching focuses attention on what the student is learning, how the student is learning, the conditions under which the student is learning, whether the student is retaining and applying the learning, and how current learning positions the student for future learning.

Provides a comprehensive and critical review of more than three decades of theory development, research, and practice in transformative learning.

A true classic, this is the definitive resource on the unique characteristics of adult learners.

Solidly grounded in theory and research, but concise and practice-oriented.

Based on the most current educational and biological research, this work addresses issues that focus on deepening learner motivation and helping adults to want to learn.

Examines practices and elements of doctoral programs and show how they can be made more powerful by relying on principles of progressive development, integration, and collaboration.

"Scholarly, wise, elegant, and deeply insightful, this book is . . . for all who work with people in the awe and angst-filled years between 18 and 32"

Provides a brief yet comprehensive overview of a number of non-Western approaches to educational thought and practice.

Offers alternative understandings of learning, hopefully leading to a more holistic understanding of adult learning.

Provides help with the transition from graduate studies to teaching.

Practical advice for new faculty to help negotiate many aspects of the professorial vocation.

An invaluable resource that addresses the key motivations at each stage of a professor's career.

Calls for greater recognition of service, a significant aspect of academic life, highlighting the importance of mentoring, committee work and pastoral care.

Presents a strong platform from which to build a rich and rewarding academic community.

Provides the "how" and "why" of what it means to be a professor in higher education today.

Provides an orientation for professors in Christian higher education.

Centers on key themes for faculty satisfaction: tenure clarity, work-life balance, support for research, collegiality, and leadership.

Profound exploration of the teacher's inner life.

How the mind and heart work together in the educational journey.

The landmark guide to critical reflection, providing expert insight and practical tools to facilitate a journey of constructive self-critique.

Fuses theological principles with dealing with the challenges of teaching.

Tells the inspiring stories of professors who have woven together the scholarship of teaching and learning.

Ten scholars weigh in on the challenges and joys of engaging in the scholarship of teaching and learning as it relates to individual academic disciplines.

Offers advice on how to do, share, and apply the scholarship of teaching and learning work to improve student learning and development.

Captures the most important lessons from a decade of thoughtful experimentation with methods to improve the learning outcomes of American college students. The authors have deep experience in institutionalizing various approaches that have been devised and endorsed by faculty in many kinds of higher education settings. A manual for those seeking to improve their own teaching and learning outcomes

Articulates the practical, pedagogical, and theological reasons why Christian liberal arts colleges are distinctive in the world of American higher education.

Incisive discussion of a set of crucial ideas widely misunderstood in the world of Christian higher education.

Integrated throughout by the biblical idea of shalom, these nineteen essays present a robust framework for thinking about education that combines a Reformed confessional perspective with a radical social conscience and an increasingly progressivist pedagogy.

Provides a robust Christian philosophy of education.

Edited collection of essays on how faith and learning is the heart of Christian higher education.

The definitive and influential apology for the mission and purpose of Christian colleges.

Serves as a clear introduction to the field of higher Christian education, focusing on the distinctive, important role of Christian-influenced learning—both in the Kingdom of God and in the academic world.

A stunning new work with a fresh new vision. Highly recommended.

Drawing on a rich array of resources, including Scripture, The Rule of St.Benedict, medieval women mystics, the Methodist theologian Georgia Harkness, and Simone Weil, as well as their own teaching experiences, the contributors discuss the vital relationships between academic and spiritual formation, religious commitments and teaching practices, and individual and institutional vocation.

A collection of essays that address the key issues facing the future of Christian higher education.

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