Books to purchase as soon as possible for reading before the workshops and to bring to Boulder:

Boice, Robert. 2000. Advice for New Faculty Members. Needham Heights, Mass.: Allyn and Bacon.

Solem, Michael, Kenneth Foote, and Janice Monk.  2009. Aspiring Academics: A Resource Book for Graduate Students and Early Career Faculty.  Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall.

These books can be ordered from online booksellers like Amazon,  Barnes & Noble, and Borders or directly from the publishers. 

Other useful (but unrequired) sources for reading as your time permitsrea

Angelo, Thomas A. and K. Patricia Cross.  1993.  Classroom Assessment Techniques: A Handbook for College Teachers.   San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

Bain, Ken.  2004.  What the Best College Teachers Do.  Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Bligh, Donald A.   1999.  What's the Point in Discussion?  Portland, OR: Intellect Books. 

Caplan, Paula J.  1993.  Lifting a Ton of Feathers: A Woman's Guide to Surviving in the Academic World.  Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Coiner, Constance and Diana H. George, eds.  1998.  The Family Track: Keeping Your Faculties While You Mentor, Nurture, Teach, and Serve.  Urbana: University of Illinois Press.

Edgerton, Russell, Pat Hutchings, and Kathleen Quinlan.  1991.   The Teaching Portfolio: Capturing the Scholarship in Teaching .  Washington, DC:  American Association for Higher Education.

Fink, L. Dee.  2003.  Creating Significant Learning Experiences: An Integrated Approach to Designing College Courses.  San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

Also, available online: L. Dee Fink, A Self-directed Guide to Designing Courses for Significant Learning at http://www.ou.edu/idp/significant/selfdirected1.pdf

Finkel, Donald L. 2000.  Teaching with Your Mouth Shut.  Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook Publishers.

Garcia, Mildred, ed.  2000.  Succeeding in an Academic Career: A Guide for Faculty of Color.  Westport, Conn. and London: Greenwood Press.

Goldsmith, John A., John Komlos, and Penny S. Gold.  2001.  The Chicago Guide to Your Academic Career: A Portable Mentor for Scholars from Graduate School Through Tenure.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Guides to Good Teaching, Learning and Assessment Practices in Geography.  Published by the UK's Geography Discipline Network: http://www.glos.ac.uk/gdn/publ.htm.  Included in the series are guides on the following topics:

• Teaching and Learning Issues and Managing Educational Change in Geography
• Lecturing in Geography
• Small-group Teaching in Geography
• Practicals and Laboratory Work in Geography
• Fieldwork and Dissertations in Geography
• Resource-based Learning in Geography
• Teaching and Learning Geography with Information and Communication Technologies
• Transferable Skills and Work-based Learning in Geography
• Assessment in Geography Curriculum Design in Geography

Lucas, Christopher J. and John W. Murry, Jr.  2002.  New Faculty: A Practical Guide for Academic Beginners.  New York: Palgrave.

McKeachie, Wilbert J. and Marilla Svinicki. 2005. McKeachie's Teaching Tips: Strategies, Research, and Theory for College and University Teachers, 12th ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co.  

Moser, Susanne and Susan Hanson. 1996. Notes on Active Pedagogy. Washington, DC: Association of American Geographers. URL: www.colorado.edu/geography/virtdept/library/activeped/activeped.html

Reis, Richard M.  1997.  Tomorrow's Professor: Preparing for Academic Careers in Science and Engineering.  New York: IEEE Press and Wiley.

Solem, Michael and Kenneth Foote.  2009.  Teaching College Geography: A Practical Guide for Graduate Students and Early Career Faculty.  Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall.

Toth, Emily.  1997.  Ms. Mentor's Impeccable Advice for Women in Academia.  Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press.

Wankat, Phillip C.  2002.  The Effective, Efficient Professor: Teaching, Scholarship and Service.  Boston: Allyn and Bacon.