our next book: mckeachie's teaching tips

This morning we met at CTL to go through their book collection and select something for our next meeting. We decided on McKeachie's Teaching Tips: Strategies, Research, and Theory for College and University Teachers by Wilbert J. McKeachie and colleagues. This is one of the classic teaching texts, widely considered a must-read for higher education teachers. We'll be reading Parts 1 and 2 for the May meeting, scheduled for Friday, May 11 from 8:00-9:30am (location TBD). We'll play it by ear as far as how much of it we'll read for the June meeting (date TBD).

A couple of us checked out copies of previous editions of the book, since the topics and material seemed to be consistent throughout the publications, but arranged a little bit differently. There's also a reserve copy of the 10th edition available at Cubberley. If a bunch of us are interested in buying the book, we could get a group order going. Drop a comment if you'd like to do so. In the meantime, if you want to browse through it online, parts of the 11th edition are browsable here.

Runner-up book choices included:

-Experiential Learning: Experience as the Source of Learning and Development by David A. Kolb

-The Psychology of Teaching Methods edited by N.L. Gage

-Mastering the Techniques of Teaching by Joseph Lowman

-The Elements of Teaching by James M. Banner, Jr. and Harold C. Cannon

We discussed getting into experiential learning as a possible summer meeting topic and found a very convenient online resource through Stanford's ebrary collection. The book Experiential Learning: A Best Practice Handbook for Educators and Trainers by Colin M. Beard and John P. Wilson is published online in its entirety. (If the link doesn't work, you may have to install the ebrary reader first.) Sarah also mentioned the Association for Experiential Education, which has more resources on this topic.