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Scholarship March 29, 2017

Achieving Excellence in Teaching: A Self-help Guide

The Wabash Center

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Author
Sweet, Charlie; Blythe, Hal; 😛hillips, Bill; and Daniel, Chris
Publisher
New Forums Press, Stillwater, OK
ISBN
9781581072518
Table of Contents
Preface

ch. 1 Introduction
ch. 2 Using R.A.T.E. (a Rubric for Achieving Teaching Excellence
ch. 3 Deep Learning
ch. 4 Dispositions
ch. 5 Passion
ch. 6 Caring
ch. 7 Rapport
ch. 8 Excellence
ch. 9 Organization
ch. 10 Teaching Paradigms and Authority
ch. 11 Technology
ch. 12 Scholarly Teaching
ch. 13 Teaching Creatively
ch. 14 Synthesizing an Optimal Learning Environment

Afterword
Appendix A:  R.A.T.E.s
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Abstract: This book is designed not only to provide you with a tightly focused set of strategies, selecting only the most fundamental and powerful, but also to offer you a user-friendly method to access your level of success through employment of the strategies.

With the authors’ goal of measurable self-improvement in mind, they’ve developed a set of rubrics keyed to each chapter, allowing you to assess where you currently stand as an instructor. Using a Likert scale, the rubrics ask you to evaluate such things as your attitude toward teaching, your alignment of student learning outcomes (SLOs) in your classes with those of larger academic units, and your delivery of class material. At the book’s end you’ll find a series of rubrics that replicate those in the earlier chapters. Comparison of your responses after experimenting with the various strategies offered throughout the text should provide a solid assessment of the handbook’s effectiveness.

So, you may start today on a focused, fast path to achieving teaching excellence in your classrooms. (From the Publisher)