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Welcome to the CTE's library. Here are all the books that are currently available in the Center. Click on each title to see more. View a detailed list of our books that are available in the CTE. Please feel free to stop by the Center for Teaching Excellence to read!

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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