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CTE Books

Author	Title	Publisher	Year	ISBN
Academy of Distinguished Teachers, The University of Texas System	The Little Orange Book: Short Lessons in Excellent Teaching	Tower Books	2015	978-1-4773-0235-4
Aleckson, Jon D. and Penny Ralston-Berg	Mind Meld: Micro-Collaboration Between eLearning Designs and instructor Experts	Atwood Publishing	2011	978-1-891859-85-4
Ambrose, Susan A., Michael W. Bridges, Michele DiPietro, Marsha C. Lovett, and Marie K. Norman	How Teaching Works: 7 Research-Based Principles for Smart Teaching	Jossey-Bas	2010	978-0-470-48410-4
Angelo, Thomas A. and K. Patricia Cross	Classroom Assessment Techniques: A Handbook for College Teachers	Jossey-Bass	1993	1-55542-500-3
Baepler, Paul, J.D. Walker, D. Christopher Brooks, Kem Saichaie, and Christina I. Peterson	A Guide to Teaching in the Active Learning Classroom: History, Research, and Practice	Stylus	2016	978-162-03630-03
Bain, Kevin	What the Best College Teacher Do	Harvard University Press	2004	0-674-01325-5
Barkley, Elizabeth F. and Claire Howell Major	Learning Assessment Techniques: A Handbook for College Faculty	Jossey-Bass	2016	978-111-905-0896
Barkley, Elizabeth F.	Student Engagement Techniques: A Handbook for College Faculty	Jossey-Bass	2010	978-0-470-28191-8
Bartels, Kirsten A. and Kelly A. Parker	Teaching Sustainability/ Teaching Sustainably	Stylus	2012	978-1-57922-739-5
Bean, John C.	Engaging Ideas: The Professor’s Guide to Integrating Writing, Critical Thinking, and Active Learning in the Classroom	Jossey-Bass	2001	0-7879-0203-9
Bean, John D	Engaging Ideas: The Professor’s Guide to Integrated Writing, Critical Thinking, and Active Learning in the Classroom	Jossey-Bass	2011	978-0-470-53290-4
Belcher, Wendy L.	Writing Your Journal Article in 12 Weeks: A guide to Academic Publishing Success	SAGE	2009	978-1-4129-5701-4
Beyer, Catharine H., Gerald M. Gillmore, and Andrew T. Fisher	Inside the Undergraduate Experience: The University of Washington’s Study of Undergraduate Learning	Anker Publishing Company, Inc.	2007	978-1-933371-26-9
Biggs, John and Catherine Tang	Teaching for Quality Learning at University	McGraw-Hill and Open University Press	2011	978-0-33-524275-7
Bishop-Clark, Cathy and Beth Dietz-Uhler	Engaging in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: A Guide to the Process and How to Develop a Project from Start to Finish	Stylus	2012	978-1-57922-471-4
Bonk, Curtis J., Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, and Thomas H. Reynolds	MOOSs and Opened Education Around the World	Routledge	2015	978-1-138-80741-9
Bowen, Jose A.	Teaching Naked: How Moving Technology Out of Your College Classroom Will Improve Student Learning	Jossey-Bass	2012	978-1-118-11035-5
Boyer, Ernest L.	Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities of the Professoriate	The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching	1990	0-7879-4069-0
Brinkley, Allen, Esam El-Fakahany, Betty Dessants, Michael Flamm, Charles B. Forcey, JR., Mathew L. Ouellett, and Eric Rothschild	The Chicago Handbook for Teacher: A Practical Guide to the College Classroom	The University of Chicago Press	2011	978-1-133-93679-4
Brookfield, Stephen D.	The Skillful Teacher: On Technique, Trust, and Responsiveness in the Classroom	Jossey-Bass	2006	978-0-7879-8066-5
Brown, Peter C., Henry L. Roediger III, and Mark A. McDaniel	Make it Stick: The Science of Successful Learning	The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press	2014	978-0-674-72901-8
Bruff, Derek	Teaching with Classroom Response Systems: Creating Active Learning Environments	Jossey-Bass	2009	978-0-470-28893-1
Burnett, Cathy, Julia Davis, Guy Merchant, and Jennifer Roswell	New Literature around the Globe: Policy and Pedagogy	Routledge	2014	978-0-415-71956-8
Carnes, Mark C.	Minds on Fire: How Role-Immersion Games Transform College	Harvard University Press	2014	978-0-674-73535-4
Clayton, Patti H., Robert G. Bringle, and Julie A. Hatcher	Research on Service Learning: Conceptual Frameworks and Assessment Volume 2A: Students and Faculty	Stylus	2013	978-1-57922-341-0
Clayton, Patti H., Robert G. Bringle, and Julie A. Hatcher	Research on Service Learning: Conceptual Frameworks and Assessment Volume 2B: Communities, Institutions, and Partnership	Stylus	2013	978-1-57922-884-2
Gross Davis, Barbara	Tools for Teaching	Jossey-Bass	2009	978-0-7879-6567-9
Deresiewicz, William	Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite & The Way to a Meaningful Life	Free Press	2014	978-1-4767-0272-8
Dews, C.L. Barney and Carolyn Leste Law	This Fine Place So Far from Home: Voices of Academics from the Working Class	Temple University Press	1995	1-56639-291-8
Dionne, E.J. Jr.	Why Americans Hate Politics	Simon & Schuster	2004	0-7432-6573-4
Dunlosky, John and Janet Metaclfe	Metacognition	SAGE	2009	978-1-4129-3972-0
Egbert, Joy and Sherry Sanden	Foundation of Education Research: Understanding Theoretical Components	Routledge	2014	978-0-415-71576-8
Enelow, Wendy S. and Louise M. Kursmark	Expert Resumes for Military-to-Civilian Transitions	Jist Works	2006	1-59357-181-x
Entwistle, Noel	Teaching for Understanding at University: Deep Approaches and Distinctive Ways of Thinking	Palgrave Macmillan	2009	978-0-230-59385-5
Esquith, Rafe	Teach Like Your Hair’s on Fire: The Methods and Madness Inside Room 56	Penguin Group	2007	978-0-14-311286-0
Evans, Norman W., Neil J. Anderson, and William G. Eggington	ESL Readers and Writers in Higher Education: Understanding Challenges, Providing Support	Routledge	2015	978-1-138-79171-8
Filene, Peter	The Joy of Teaching: A Practical guide for New College Instructors	Chapel Hill	2005	978-0-8078-2924-4
Fink, L. Dee	Creating Significant Learning Experiences: An Integrated Approach to Designing College Courses Book Includes DVD	Houston Endowment	2012	978-0-9849793-0-1
Finkel, Donald L.	Teaching With Your Mouth Shut	Boynton/Cook Publishers	2000	0-86709-469-9
Gabel, Susan L. and David J. Connor	Disability and Teaching	Routledge	2014	978-0-8058-4914-1
Gareis, Christopher R. and Leslie W. Grant	Teacher-Made Assessments: How to Connect Curriculum, Instruction, and Student Learning	Eye on Education	2008	978-1-59667-081-5
Garrison, D. Randy and Norman D. Vaughan	Blended Learning in Higher Education: Framework, Principles, and Guidelines	Jossey-Bass	2008	978-0-7879-8770-1
Gee, James P.	What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy (Revised and Updated Edited)	Palgrave Macmillan	2007	978-1-4039-8453-1
Gillespie, Kay J. and Douglas L. Robertson	A Guide to Faculty Development	Jossey-Bass	2014	978-0-470-40557-4
Goldblatt, Eli	Because We Live Here	Hampton Press	2007	1-57273-769-7
Gottlieb, Derek	Education Reform and the Concept of Good Teaching	Routledge	2015	978-1-139-77624-1
Green, Elizabeth	Building a Better Teacher: How Teaching Works( and How to Teach It to Everyone)	W.W. Norton & Company	2014	978-0-393-08159-6
Goffin, Stacie G. and Valora Washington	Ready or Not: Leadership Choices in Early Care and Education	Teachers College Press	2007	978-0-8077-4793-3
Harrington, Christine and Todd Zakrajsek	Dynamic Lecture : Research- Based Strategies to Enhance Lecture Effectiveness	Stylus	2017	978-162-03661-96
Henderson, Bruce B.	Teaching at the Peoples University: An Introduction to the State Comprehensive University	Anker Publishing	2007	978-1-933371-10-8
Hodges, Russ, Michele L. Simpson, and Norman A. Stahl	Teaching Study Strategies in Developmental Education: Readings o Theory, Research, and Best Practice	Bedford/ST. Martin’s	2012	978-0-312-66274-5
Hooks, Bell	Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom	Routledge	1994	0-415-90807-8
Hutson, Therese	Teaching What You Don’t Know	Harvard University Press	2009	978-0-674-03580-5
Johnson, Daivd W. , Roger T. Johnson, and Karl A. Smith	3 ^rd Ed. Active Learning: Cooperation in the College Classroom	Interaction Book Company	2006	0-939603-14-4
Jones, Thomas B.	Deadly Professors: A Faculty Development Mystery	Stylus	2010	978-1-57922-449-3
Jones, Thomas B.	The Missing Professor: An Academic Mystery	Stylus	2006	1-57922-137-8
Berger Kaye, Cathryn	The Complete Guide to Service Learning	Free Spirit Publishing	2006	1-57542-133-X
Berger Kaye, Cathryn	CD-ROM of Customizable forms and Supplementary Materials for: The Complete Guide to Service Learning	Free Spirit Publishing	2004
Kemmins, Daniel	The Good City and the Good Life: Renewing the Sense of Community	Houghton Mifflin Company	1995	0-395-68630-xxΩ
Kim, W. Chan and Renee Mauborgne	Blue Ocean Strategy: How to create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant	Harvard Business School Press	2005	978-1-59139-619-2
King, Patricia M. and Kitchener, Karen Strohm	Developing Reflective Judgment	Jossey-Bass	1994	1-55542-629-8
Knox, Alan B.	Improving Professional Learning	Stylus	2016	978-162-03636-45
Kohn, Alfie	Punished by Rewards: Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A’s, Praise, and Other Bribes	Houghton Mifflin Company	1999	978-0-618-00181-1
Kronman, Anthony T.	Education’s End: Why Our Colleges and Universities Have Given Up on the Meaning of Life	Yale University Press	2007	978-0-300-12288-6
Lane, Eric and Michael Oreskes	The Genius of America: How the Constitution Saved our Country and Why it Can Again	Bloomsbury	2007	978-1-59691-199-4
Lang, James M.	On Course: A Week-By-Week Guide to Your First Semester of College Teaching	Harvard University Press	2008	978-0-674-02806-7
Lang, James M.	Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science Learning	Jossey-Bass	2016	978-1-118-94449-3
Leamnson, Robert	Thinking About Teaching and Learning: Developing Habits of Learning with First Year College and University Students	Stylus	1999	1-57922-012-6
Lemann, Nicholas	The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy	Farrar, Straus and Giroux	1999	0-374-29984-6
Lindley, Daniel A.	This Rough Magic: The Life of Teaching	Bergin & Garvey	1993	0-89789-363-8
Maki, Peggy L.	Real-Time Students Assessment: Meeting the Imperative for Improved Time to Degree, Closing the Opportunity Gap, and Assuring Student Competencies for 21 ^st Century Needs	Stylus	2017	978-162-03648-71
Mazur, Eric	Peer Instruction: A User’s Manual Book Includes CD	Prentice Hall	1997	0-13-565441-6
McClenney, Kay M. and Arleen Arnsparger	Students Speak: Are We Listening? Book Includes DVD	Houston Endowment	2012	978-0-9849793-0-1
McKeachie, Wilbert J. and Marilla D. Svinicki	McMeachies’s Teaching Tips: Strategies, Research, and Theory for College and University Teachers -13 Edition	Wadsworth Cengage Learning	2011	978-0-498-80929-6
McKeachie, Wilbert J. and Marilla D. Svinicki	McMeachies’s Teaching Tips: Strategies, Research, and Theory for College and University Teachers -14 Edition	Wadsworth Cengage Learning	2014	978-1-133-93679-4
McGuire, Saundra Y.	Teach Students How To Learn: Strategies you can Incorporate Into Any Course to Improve Student Metacognition, Study Skills, and Motivation	Stylus	2015	978-1-62036-316-4
Mills, Barbara J.	Cooperative Learning in Higher Education: Across the Disciplines, Across the Academy	Stylus	2010	978-1-57922-328-1
Moomaw, Ronald L., Kent W. Olson, and Kenny Christianson	Economics & Contemporary Issues 7 ^th Edition	South-Western Cengage Learning	2007	978-0-324-32169-2
Moon, Jennifer A.	A Handbook of Reflective and Experiential Learning: Theory and Practice	RoutledgeFalmer	2004	978-0-415-33515-7
National Research Council	How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School	National Academy Press		0-309-07036-8
Nilson, Linda B.	Teaching At Its Best: A Research-Based Resource for College Instructions (4 ^th Edition)	Jossey-Bass	2016	978-111-909-6320
Nimus, Nihil and Robert Boice	Advice for New Faculty Members	Allyn and Bacon	2000	0-205-28159-1
Novak, Gregor M., Evelyn T. Patterson, Andrew D. Garvin, and Wolfgang Christian	Just-In-Time Teaching: Blending Active Learning with Web Technology	Prentice-Hall Inc.	1999	0-13-085034-9
Nunez, Annie-Marie, Richard E. Hoover, Kellie Pickett, A. Christine Stuart-Carruthers, and Maria Vazquez	Latinos in Higher Education and Hispanic-Serving Institutions: Creating Conditions for Success	Wiley Periodicals	2013	978-1-1186-7371-3
Palloff, Rena M. and Keith Pratt	Assessing the Online Learner: Resources and Strategies for Faculty	Jossey-Bass	2009	978-0-470-28386-8
Parini, Jay	The Art of Teaching	Oxford University Press	2005	978-0-19-516969-0
Picciano, Anthony G., Charles D. Dziuban, and Charles R. Graham	Blended Learning Research Perspectives Volume 2	Routledge	2014	978-0-415-63251-5
Pink, Daniel H.	Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us	Riverhead Books	2009	978-1-59448-884-9
Proctor, Nicolas W.	Reacting to the Past: Game Designer’s Handbook
Prosser, Michael and Keith Trigwell	Understanding Learning and Teaching: The Experience in Higher Education	The Society for Research into Higher Education & Open University Press	1999	0-335-19832-5
Ramsden, Paul	Learning to Teach In Higher Education	RoutledgeFalmer	2003	978-0-415-30345-3
Ranciere, Jacquenes	The Ignorant Schoolmaster: Five Lessons in Intellectual Emancipation	Stanford University Press	1991	0-8047-1847-1
Savage, Jonathan and Clive McGOUN	Teaching in a Networked Classroom	Routledge	2015	978-0-415-70898-2
Schroeder, Connie M. and Associates	Coming in From the Margins: Faculty Development Emerging Organizational Development Role in Institutional Change	Stylus	2011	978-1-57922-362-5
Shumow, Lee and Jennifer A. Schmidt	Enhancing Adolescents’ Motivation for Science: Research-Based Strategies for Teaching Male and Female Students	Corwin And Sage	2014	978-1-4522-6969-6
Silvia, Paul J.	How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing	American Psychological Association	2007	978-1-59147-743-3
Silvia, Paul J.	Write it Up: Practical Strategies for Writing and Publishing Journal Articles	American Psychological Association	2015	978-1-4338-1814-1
Sorcinelli, Mary D., Ann E. Austin, Pamela L. Eddy, and Andre L. Beach	Creating the Future of Faculty Development: Learning from the Past Understanding the Present	Anker Publishing	2006	978-1-882982-87-5
Stevens, Dannelle D. and Antonia J. Levi	Introduction to Rubrics: An Assessment Tool to Save Grading Time, Convey Effective Feedback , and Promote Student Learning	Stylus	2013	978-1-57922-587-2
Stoddard, David A. and Robert J. Tamasy	The Heart of Mentoring: Ten Proven Principles for Developing People to Their Fullest Potential	Navpress	2003	1-57683-401-8
Stone, Deborah	Policy Paradox: The Art of Political Decision Making	Norton	2002	0-393-97625-4
Svinicki, Marilla D. and Wilbert J. McKeachie	Teaching Tips: Strategies, Research, and Theory for College and University Teachers	Wadsworth Cengage Learning	2011	978-1-133-93679-4
Talbert, Robert	Flipped Learning: A Guide for Higher Education Faculty	Stylus	2017	978-162-03643-21
The University of Texas System Academy of Distinguished Teachers	The Little Orange Book: Short Lessons in Excellent Teaching	University of Texas System	2015	978-1-4773-0235-4
Tinto, Vincent	Completing College: Rethinking Institutional Action	The University of Chicago	2012	978-0-226-80452-1
Tinto, Vincent	Leaving College: Rethinking the Causes and Cures of Student Attrition	The University of Chicago	2012	978-0-226-80449-1
Kraemer Troutman, Kathryn	5 ^th Edition Federal Resume Guidebook: Strategies for Writing a Winning Federal Resume	Jist Works	2011	978-1-59357-850-3
Vai, Marjorie and Kristen Sosulski	Essentials of Online Course Design: A Standards-Based Guide	Routledge	2011	978-0-415-87300-0
Walvoord, Barbara E., and Virginia Johnson Anderson	Effective Grading: A Tool learning and Assessment in College	Jossey-Bass	2010	978-0-470-50215-0
Weimer, Maryellen	Learner-Centered Teaching: Five Key Changes to Practice	Jossey-Bass	2013	978-1-118-11928-0
Willingham, Daniel T.	Why Don’t Students like School? : A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How The Mind Works and What Means for The Classroom	Jossey-Bass	2009	978-0-470-27930-4
Zachary, Lois J. and Lory A. Fischler	The Mentee’s Guide: Making Mentoring Work For You	Jossey-Bass	2009	978-0-470-34358-6
Stone Zander, Rosamund and Benjamin Zander	The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life	Penguin Books	2002	0-87584-770-6
Zull, James E.	The Art of Changing the Brian: Enriching the Practice of Teaching by Exploring the Biology of Learning	Stylus	2002	1-57922-053-3

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