Download Excerpt Table of Contents The Art & Craft of College Teaching A Guide for New Professors & Graduate Students Robert Rotenberg (Author) 328 pp. / 6.00 x 9.00 / Jan, 2007 Paperback (978-1-59874-159-9) Paperback ($27.95)    Related Interest   - Education   - Higher Education This 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 "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 " 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 literature on how to effectively teach young adults, offering specific solutions to the most commonly faced classroom dilemmas. Written from the point of view of a department chair, the topics encourage 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.