Synopses & Reviews
The ArtandCraft of College Teaching provides a hands-on, quick-start guide to the college classroom for those who are facing their first five years as independent teachers. In it, you'll find the answers to some of college teachings most common questions: How do college students learn most effectively? What are the questions to consider when you develop a course for the first time? How does class size affect course design? How do you set your expectations for your students? How can you help students become better thinkers? Why is the assessment of student learning important to the classroom teacher? What makes lecturing effective? What techniques of preparation and performance work best with which discussions? How do you deal with a slow or non-responsive class? How do you deal with challenges to your authority in the classroom? How do you set up a seminar so that it runs will a minimum of input from you? How do you get students to work collaboratively and effectively on learning exercises? What are the best practices for grading student exams and papers? What do you actually learn from student evaluations?
Review
"The ArtandCraft of College Teaching is an intensive and comprehensive orientation to the job of college-level faculty. Speaking from his many years of experience as a department chair, Rotenberg couches his course design and teaching counsel within the context of meeting curricular needs. He also addresses institution-relevant topics not usually found in books about teaching: general education courses, first-year programs, advising, honors courses, area and interdisciplinary studies, and grade inflation. Still, his major focus is classroom teaching, and no other teaching volume offers as much depth as does Rotenberg's on problem-based learning, leading a seminar, and developing critical and creative thinking skills." Linda Nilson, Clemson University
Review
"This book is unusually good. Clear, comprehensive, and immediately useful, it should be read by every faculty member and department chair." - Peter Seldin, Pace University
About the Author
Robert Rotenberg has taught at DePaul University since 1979 in the sociology and anthropology departments and the international studies program. He is currently chair of the anthropology department and serves on the university Teaching, Learning and Assessment Committee. In 2004, he was named to the inaugural cohort of the St. Vincent DePaul Society, a university-level distinguished professorship for teaching. He has written books, edited collections of articles, and published in scholarly journals including award-winning Landscape and Power in Vienna and Time and Order in Metropolitan Vienna: A Seizure of Schedules. Rotenberg is the past president for the Society for Urban, National and Transnational/Global Anthropology of the American Anthropological Association.