Resources
The TLI strives to help connect faculty with human resources through its programs and events, but also keeps relevant books on reserve in Myrin Library.
Books on teaching and learning currently on reserve in Myrin Library:
How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren
What the Best College Teachers Do
Ken Bain
Engaging Ideas: The Professor’s Guide to Integrating Writing, Critical Thinking, and Active Learning in the Classroom
John Bean
Rhetorics, Poetics, and Cultures: Refiguring College English Studies
James A. Berlin
Teaching for Quality Learning at University
John Biggs and Catherine Tang
Advice for New Faculty Members
Robert Boice
Developing Learner-Centered Teaching: A Practical Guide for Faculty
Phyllis Blumberg
Active Learning: Creating Excitement in the Classroom Charles C. Bonwell and James A. Eison
Teaching Naked: How Moving Technology Out of Your College Classroom Will Improve Student Learning
Jose Antonio Bowen
Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher
Stephen D. Brookfield
Discussion as a Way of Teaching: Tools and Techniques for Democratic Classrooms
Stephen D. Brookfield and Stephen Preskill
Teaching for Critical Thinking: Tools and Techniques to Help Students Question Their Assumptions
Stephen D. Brookfield
Peer Review of Teaching: A Sourcebook
Nancy Van Note Chism
Ancient Rhetorics for Contemporary Students
Sharon Crowley and Debra Hawhee
We Scholars: Changing the Culture of the University
David Damrosch
Tools for Teaching
Barbara Gross Davis
The Power of Problem-Based Learning
Barbara J. Duch (ed.)
Everyone Can Write: Essays Toward a Hopeful Theory of Writing and Teaching Writing
Peter Elbow
Teaching Positions: Difference, Pedagogy, and the Power of Address
Elizabeth Ellsworth
Places of Learning
Elizabeth Ellsworth
Teaching First-Year College Students
Bette LaSere Erickson and Calvin B. Peters, Diane Weltner Strommer
Fragments of Rationality: Postmodernity and the Subject of Composition
Lester Faigley
The Joy of Teaching: A Practical Guide for New College Instructors
Peter Filene
Creating Significant Learning Experiences
L. Dee Fink
Designing Courses for Significant Learning: Voices of Experience
L. Dee Fink and Arletta Knight Fink (eds.)
Teaching With Your Mouth Shut
Donald L. Finkel
Multiple Intelligences
Howard Gardner
Clueless in Academe: How Schooling Obscures the Life of the Mind
Gerald Graff
Releasing the Imagination: Essays on Education, the Arts, and Social Change
Maxine Greene
Student Engagement in Higher Education: Theoretical Perspectives and Practical Approaches for Diverse Populations
Shaun R. Harper and Stephen John Quaye (eds.)
Teaching the Large College Class
Frank Heppner
Cooperative Learning: Increasing College Faculty Instructional Productivity
David W. Johnson and Roger T. Johnson, Karl A. Smith
Life on the Tenure Track: Lessons from the First Year
James M. Lang
Teaching & Learning Through Inquiry
Virginia S. Lee (ed.)
Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
bell hooks
Learning for Meaning’s Sake: Toward the Hermeneutic University
Stephanie Mackler **Ursinus Faculty Member**
Creative Workforce: How to Launch Young People Into High-Flying Futures
Erica McWilliam
The Contemplative Practitioner: Meditation in Education and the Professions
John P. Miller
Cooperative Learning in Higher Education
Barbara J. Millis (ed.)
Cooperative Learning for Higher Education Faculty
Barbara J. Millis and Philip G. Cottell, Jr.
Teaching At Its Best: A Research-Based Resource for College Instructors
Linda B. Nilson
Cultivating Humanity: A Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal Education
Martha C. Nussbaum
Teaching Inclusively: Resources for Course, Department & Institutional Change In Higher Education
Matthew L. Ouellett
The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher’s Life
Parker J. Palmer
Blueprint for Learning: Constructing College Courses to Facilitate, Assess, and Document Learning
Laurie Richlin
Improving College Teaching
Peter Seldin
The Teaching Portfolio: A Practical Guide to Improved Performance and Promotion/Tenure Decisions
Peter Seldin and J. Elizabeth Miller, Clement A. Seldin
Creating Learning Communities
Nancy S. Shapiro and Jodi H. Levine
Engaging Large Classes: Strategies and Techniques for College Faculty
Christine A. Stanley and M. Erin Porter (eds.)
Learning and Motivation in the Postsecondary Classroom Marilla D. Svinicki
Teaching Tips: Strategies, Research, and Theory for College and University Teachers
Marilla Svinicki and Wilbert J. McKeachie
A Guide to Composition Pedagogies
Gary Tate and Amy Rupiper, Kurt Schick
Ms. Mentor’s new and evermore Impeccable Advice for Women and men In Academia
Emily Toth
Effective Grading: A Tool for Learning and Assessment in College Barbara E. Walvoord and Virginia Johnson Anderson
Educative Assessment: Designing Assessments to Inform and Improve Student Performance
Grant Wiggins
Understanding By Design
Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe
The Moral Collapse of the University: Professionalism, Purity, and Alienation
Bruce Wilshire
Successful Service-Learning Programs: New Models of Excellence in Higher Education
Edward Zlotkowski
The Learning Portfolio: Reflective Practice for Improving Student Learning
John Zubizarreta
The Art of Changing the Brain: Enriching the Practice of Teaching by Exploring the Biology of Learning
James E. Zull
Faculty-Generated Material in Canvas
Ursinus faculty also have access to a wide range of faculty-generated material and reports on many different teaching and learning topics. This material is housed on Canvas; look for “UC Teaching and Learning Institute” in the Courses dropdown menu.