Inspiring Teaching: Carnegie Professors of the Year Speak

Author: Roth, John K., ed.
Publisher: Anker Publishing, Bolton, MA
ISBN: 1882982142
Book Review Link: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-9647.t01-1-00014/abstract
Table of Contents: Contributors.
Foreword.
Preface. Introduction
Part I. Teaching Characteristics.
1. What Makes a Good Teacher? (Peter G. Beidler).
2. Stretching Minds: Personal and Academic Aspects of Teaching (James W. Vargo).
3. Classroom Atmosphere: A Personal Inventory (Harvey D. Blankespoor).
4. Connecting with Literature: The Art of Involvement (Barbara Paul-Emile).
5. Relations of Mutual Trust and Objects of Common Interest 9John David Dawson).
6. Motivating and Mentoring: teaching the Developmental Student (Vashti U. Muse).
Part II. Teaching Practices.
7. The Student Who Felt Ugly and How She Played Richard III (Martha Andresen).
8. Opportunities and Responsibilities: Competence, Creativity, Collaboration, and Caring (Sally Phillips).
9. Teaching Through the Curriculum: The Development of a Comprehensive honors Program (Anthony J. Lisska).
10. Managing Discussion in Large Classes (J. Dennis Huston).
11. Suit the Action to the Word: Teaching Minds and Bodies in the College Classroom (Michael Flachmann).
12. Improving Teaching Through Teaching Portfolio Revisions: A Context and Case for reflective Practice (John Zubizarreta).
13. Creating Global classrooms (Mark C. Taylor).
Part III. Teaching Philosophies.
14. The Community in the Classroom/The Classroom in the Community (Patrick Parks).
15. Teaching as Subversion (Teofilo F. Ruiz).
16. A Story Waiting to Be Told: Narratives of Teaching, Scholarship, and Theory.
17. Feminist Pedagogy: A Voice of One’s Own (Rosmarie Tong).
18. The Liberal Arts and Civic Education: Grounds for Inspired Teaching (Ralph Ketcham).
19. What Teaching Teaches Me: How the Holocaust Informs My Philosophy of Education (John K. Roth).
20. The Carnegie Professors of the Year: Models for Teaching Success (John R. Lough).
21. What This Book teaches Me (John K. Roth).
Index.

Each year since 1981, the Carnegie Foundation and the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education receives and reviews over 600 nominations for their prestigious Professor of the Year award. Together with a group of higher education experts, Carnegie and CASE conduct interviews with the candidates, looking for excellence in numerous areas: impact on and involvement with students; service to students, institution, community, and profession; and a scholarly approach to teaching. Several rounds of judging narrow the field, culminating in prestigious state and national, including Canadian, Professor of the Year awards.

Inspiring Teaching is a fascinating collection of essays written by recent Carnegie Professors of the Year. The book's chapters range from the pragmatic to the philosophical, offering snapshots of outstanding teachers at work in their classrooms. (From the Publisher)