Book description
Directed towards college faculty,
Inspired College Teaching
challenges teachers to be responsible for their professional growth and
development as an ongoing, career-long quest. Written by an experienced
college teacher and editor of The Teaching Professor newsletter, this
source explores the journey and growth of college teachers. This
resource provides goals best positioned for beginning, mid-career, and
senior faculty as well as activities faculty can use to ignite
intellectual curiosity from both students and themselves. This book
presents a way for faculty to obtain and sustain teaching excellence
throughout their career.
Maryellen Weimer has more than thirty
years of experience teaching college. She was the director of the
Instructional Development Program at Pennsylvania State University for
ten years and served as associate director at the National Center on
Postsecondary Teaching, Learning, and Assessment. She is the editor of
The Teaching Professor, a monthly newsletter on college teaching, and
she is the author of numerous books, including Learner-Centered
Teaching and Enhancing Scholarly Work on Teaching and Learning, both
from Jossey-Bass.
