The Art and Craft of College Teaching

by Robert Rotenberg

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Author: Robert Rotenberg

Publisher: Routledge

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ISBN 10: 1598745344
ISBN 13: 978-1598745344

The second edition of Rotenberg’s popular guide to college teaching includes additional material on teaching in a digital environment, universal design, and teaching diverse students. As in the first edition, the book provides a hands-on, quick-start guide to the complexities of the college classroom for instructors in their first five years of teaching independently. The chapters survey the existing literature on how to effectively teach young adults, offering specific solutions to the most commonly faced classroom dilemmas. The author, a former department chair and award-winning instructor, encourages the new teacher to support their students as individual learners who are engaged in a program of study beyond their individual class. A focus on the choices made during the design of the course helps the instructor coordinate their class with a department or college curriculum. An extensive discussion of the relationship between classroom design and class size, as well as tips of assessment and grading, enable the new instructor to better handle the challenges of contemporary college classrooms.

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"The Art & Craft 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

"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

"Rotenberg possesses a plethora of experience to share with newcomers to the field of professional teaching. Fortunately, Rotenberg has offered just that within this volume. Though readers will not find much new ground broken in this volume, they nonetheless will encounter a depth, width, and breadth of wisdom regarding the collection and presentation of the best teaching techniques from times past."
—Bradford McCall, Teaching Theology and Religion

"Rotenberg’s book provides an informative and comprehensive resource for college teaching that reads like a conversation with a mentor and makes a convincing argument that teaching should be thought of as scholarship.... A must-read for graduate students and new professors and would also be useful for experienced faculty. Ideally, it would first be read straight through and then used as a guide for further research and as a resource for answering questions."

—Chris Mayer, The National Teaching & Learning Forum

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.

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