Teaching at Its Best: A Research-
Based Resource for College
Instructors (JB - Anker Series) by
Linda B. Nilson
A Must-Have!
This best-selling handbook is an essential toolbox—a compilation of
hundreds of practical teaching techniques, formats, classroom activities,
and exercises. It is now newly revised and expanded to cover more on the
topics relevant to todays classroom such as technology and the Internet,
simulations and games, diversity, service learning, and faculty evaluation
systems. While retaining the proven, practical information from the first
edition, this revision also includes entirely new sections on teaching with
laptops, course portfolios, three new sections on teaching problem solving,
and a new chapter on getting your students to do readings. Other new
sections include learning and adult learning, the learning-centered
syllabus, the cognitive profile learning styles model, and newly written

chapters on classroom management/incivility, academic honesty, and
grading. Rich with quick tips on a wide range of current issues, this is a
guide that all teachers will continuously refer to for development and
support of their teaching. Contents include 31 chapters on relevant
topics such as:
• Understanding your students
• The complete syllabus
• Your first day of class
• Making the most of office hours
• Motivating your students
• Teaching to different learning styles
• Getting your students to do the readings
• Writing-to-learn activities and assignments
• Teaching students to think and write in the disciplines
• Science in the laboratory
• Assessing students learning in progress
• Test construction/preparing students for tests
• Evaluating and documenting teaching effectiveness
Personal Review: Teaching at Its Best: A Research-Based
Resource for College Instructors (JB - Anker Series) by Linda B.
Nilson
Dr. Linda B. Nilson has spent a good part of her professional career in
higher education speaking, writing, and teaching about how to be an
effective college instructor. Her latest contribution to that effort, Teaching
at its Best: A Research-Based Resource for College Instructors, 2nd
Edition, may be the most comprehensive work to date on the subject.
This is a "real world" book about teaching at the college level. Written in a
comfortable 2nd person style, it takes a would-be instructor through all the
steps from preparing to teach to evaluating how effective the instruction
has been. The discussion on understanding different learning styles and
using appropriate teaching strategies to reach diverse learners is straight
forward and easy to understand.

In her preface to the book, Nilson says that "Like the first edition, this
revision is designed primarily for use in colleges and universities with high
standards of instructional excellence". Believe it - and don't teach without
it!
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