10 Best Books for College Teachers in 2025
I’m a skeptic – especially when it comes to advice for teachers at colleges and universities. I’ve seen scores of […]
Pedagogy
10 Best Books for College Teachers Update
Now that the year is coming to a close, it’s time to pick up where my previous recommendations for books
“When we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey.”
When I was deciding whether to come back to teach one more year, I realized that the part that I
“What would happen if one conceptualized a social system as a system of energy?”
Here’s a radical idea: The primary responsibility of teachers and leaders is not to issue orders; it’s to release the
“What would happen if one conceptualized a social system as a system of energy?”
Here’s a radical idea: The primary responsibility of teachers and leaders is not to issue orders; it’s to release the
“Black children continue to be unconsciously trained to correlate blackness with wrongness and whiteness with rightness.”
Let’s start with this idea: linguists do not designate any language as being superior. And yet, when I teach my
“Resistance is not about laziness, lack of will power, or the failure of intellect and imagination.”
Instead, it’s about neurology and psychology, Rosanne Bane argues in her book about the resistance that nearly all writers experience
“Some people hold the view that if you are a learned scholar in a field, that should be enough to make you a good teacher.”
We all know this isn’t true. Is there a person alive who hasn’t suffered through a class taught by an
“We unite in the same dissonance: the need to produce effective writing, yet the failure to attain it by willpower alone.”
Ah, willpower! Nearly everyone jumps to the conclusion that difficulty in writing has one root cause: a lack of willpower.
Best 2020 Book Prescriptions
If 2020 was a great year for you, stop reading. This blog post is not for you. If, however, 2020