The Professor's Guide to Teaching: Psychological Principles and Practices

by Donelson R. Forsyth

Book Overview

The Professor's Guide to Teaching explores what research has revealed about effective teaching and mines this resource to offer useful suggestions and practical recommendations for both new and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1557989605
• ISBN13: 9781557989604
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
• Length: 353 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.4" x 10.3"

Customer Reviews

Great Book about Teaching at the College Level

This book is well-structured and contains a lot of helpful tools for new instructors at the college level.

Teaching Book

Great book for advice on teaching at the college level. The book is well written and based on literature review, not mearly opinion. Highly suggested.

The fun to read reference book

Forsyth's Guide to Teaching emulates a good class: the content is well researched, thought provoking, clearly presented (good use of bullet points, charts, and tables), and well-suited for current and prospective professors. The tone of the book moves between the familiar and the authoritative. For example, while the principles and practices are grounded in current research on teaching and learning, Forsyth uses his practice wisdom to comment on findings from the literature. This book does not try to be the last word in teaching (e.g. the material on discussions, while sufficient, is better covered in Brookfield and Preskill's Discussion as a Way of Teaching). It is a good first word, and for people teaching those in the helping professions (clinical social workers, psychologists, nurses, etc.) it can answer many common teaching questions. The section on "Using technology creatively in teaching" begins with a quote from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, and references to the French impressionists. While the information might be somewhat redundant for the under 30 crowd, Forsyth covers all the technology bases in a user friendly way. I checked this book out of the library, but found myself wanting to write notes in it, highlight and personalize it, so I ended up buying it. I'm glad I added it to my library.