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Summer Reading Suggestions for Faculty: List

A selection of books about teaching and higher education from NIU University Libraries and the Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning

Teaching Practices

Teaching in Higher Education

Creating Wicked Students (Request from I-Share for Print) by Paul Hanstedt
ISBN: 9781620366967
Publication Date: 2018-05-17
The College Fear Factor (eBook and Print) by Rebecca D. Cox
ISBN: 0674053664
Publication Date: 2010-02-15
The Skillful Teacher (eBook and Print) by Stephen D. Brookfield
ISBN: 1119019877
Publication Date: 2015-02-05
Slow Professor (eBook) by Maggie Berg; Barbara Seeber
ISBN: 9781442645561
Publication Date: 2018-09-28
The Spark of Learning (Print) by Sarah Rose Cavanagh
ISBN: 9781943665334
Publication Date: 2016-10-01
Teaching Unprepared Students (Print) by Kathleen F. Gabriel
ISBN: 9781579222307
Publication Date: 2008-10-15
What the Best College Teachers Do (eBook and Print) by Ken Bain
ISBN: 9780674065543
Publication Date: 2011-09-01

Good Teaching Practices

How Learning Works (eBook) by Susan A. Ambrose; Michael W. Bridges; Michele DiPietro; Marsha C. Lovett; Marie K. Norman; Richard E. Mayer (Foreword by)
ISBN: 0470617608
Publication Date: 2010-04-16
Small Teaching (eBook) by James M. Lang
ISBN: 9781118944509
Publication Date: 2016-02-16
Distracted (Request from I-Share for Print) by James M. Lang
ISBN: 9781541699809
Publication Date: 2020-10-20

Teaching Topics

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Bandwidth Recovery by Cia Verschelden
ISBN: 1620366045
Publication Date: 2017-08-17
From Equity Talk to Equity Walk by Tia Brown McNair; Estela Mara Bensimon; Lindsey Malcom-Piqueux
ISBN: 9781119428725
Publication Date: 2020-01-14
Is Everyone Really Equal? (eBook and Print) by Özlem Sensoy; Robin DiAngelo; James A. Banks (Series edited by); Özlem Sensoy
ISBN: 9780807758618
Publication Date: 2017-07-28
Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire; Myra Bergman Ramos (Translator)
ISBN: 1501305328
Publication Date: 2014-08-18
White Fatigue (Print) by Joseph E. Flynn
ISBN: 9781433150265
Publication Date: 2018-01-04

Teaching Online

Teaching Online by Claire Howell Major
ISBN: 9781421416335
Publication Date: 2015-03-15
99 Tips for Creating Simple and Sustainable Educational Videos (Request from I-Share for Print) by Karen Costa
ISBN: 9781642670851
Publication Date: 2020-03-27
Small Teaching Online (eBook and Print) by Flower Darby; James M. Lang
ISBN: 9781119544913
Publication Date: 2019-05-15

Assessment

Introduction to Rubrics (Print) by Dannelle D. Stevens; Antonia J. Levi; Barbara E. Walvoord (Foreword by)
ISBN: 9781579225872
Publication Date: 2012-10-08
Specifications Grading (eBook) by Claudia J. Stanny (Foreword by); Linda B. Nilson
ISBN: 1620362430
Publication Date: 2015-03-01