Professional Development
Use the resources below to keep pace with changes occurring in higher education and continue to meet college goals for university success.
General Professional Development Resources
Don’t Forget About the Adjuncts! by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9798887302386Publication Date: 2023Don't Forget About the Adjuncts! is a work that creates space for adjuncts to share their experiences navigating workspaces within higher education and their experiences as part-time faculty. Contributing authors provide insight and advice on how current and potential adjuncts can succeed and thrive, even with all the barriers or obstacles they face.
Becoming and Supporting Online Adjunct Faculty in a Gig Economy by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781668477762Publication Date: 2023-10-04Covering topics such as collaboration with full-time colleagues, curating resources for online courses, and maintaining working relationships, this book is ideal for adjunct faculty, administrators, students, researchers, and academicians.
Teaching Complex Ideas by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781138482364Publication Date: 2019-04-15Using real world examples and full of practical tips, this book guides college instructors to improve their understanding of their subjects, select the most valuable ideas to teach, and integrate those concepts with other aspects of teaching such as presentation design, technology, and assessment of understanding. This practical book helps professors at any stage in their career convert even the most complex ideas into great teaching.
Geeky Pedagogy by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781949199055Publication Date: 2019-09-01Geeky Pedagogy is a funny, evidence-based, multidisciplinary, pragmatic, highly readable guide to the process of learning and relearning how to be an effective college teacher. Neuhaus is aware of how embodied identity and employment status shape one's teaching context, and she eschews formulaic depictions of idealized exemplar teaching, instead inviting readers to join her in an engaging, critically reflective conversation about the vicissitudes of teaching and learning in higher education as a geek, introvert, or nerd.
Teaching at Its Best by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781119860235Publication Date: 2023-02-02This higher education playbook provides a wealth of research-backed practices for nearly every aspect of effective teaching throughout higher education. It is filled with practical guidance and proven techniques designed to help you improve student learning, both face-to-face and online.
Geeky Pedagogy by Call Number: eAudioISBN: 9781494540272Publication Date: 2019-10-22Geeky Pedagogy is a funny, evidence-based, multidisciplinary, pragmatic, highly readable guide to the process of learning and relearning how to be an effective college teacher. Neuhaus is aware of how embodied identity and employment status shape one's teaching context, and she eschews formulaic depictions of idealized exemplar teaching, instead inviting readers to join her in an engaging, critically reflective conversation about the vicissitudes of teaching and learning in higher education as a geek, introvert, or nerd.
Small Teaching by Call Number: eAudioISBN: 9781515936336Publication Date: 2019-06-11In Small Teaching, James Lang presents a strategy for improving student learning with a series of modest but powerful changes that make a big difference-many of which can be put into practice in a single class period. These strategies are designed to bridge the chasm between primary research and the classroom environment in a way that can be implemented by any faculty in any discipline, and even integrated into pre-existing teaching techniques.
The Skillful Teacher by Call Number: eAudioISBN: 9781515936732Publication Date: 2019-06-12Providing insights, reflections, and advice from his four decades of college teaching, Stephen Brookfield now adapts his successful methods to teaching online, working with diverse student populations, and making classrooms truly inclusive.
- TOM: Teaching Online MasterclassTOM is a free online professional development resource for teachers making the leap into remote teaching and learning.
- Digital Storytelling to Foster Student Engagement | Cultivating LearningJoin Jamie Gillan and Matthew Decker, Montgomery College English professors and co-coordinators of the Digital Storytelling Internship, and Eve Elias Stowell, a Montgomery College student and DS Internship aluma, to explore the use of digital storytelling as a pedagogical tool and classroom strategy to foster student engagement, improve writing skills, increase technological skills, develop self-confidence, and promote community.