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Tools for Teaching, Davis, B.G., Jossey-Bass; San Francisco, 1993.

A compendium of classroom-tested strategies and suggestions designed to improve the teaching practices of all college instructors, including beginning, mid-career, and senior faculty members. The book describes 49 teaching tools that cover both traditional practical tasks–writing a course syllabus, delivering an effective lecture–as well as newer, broader concerns such as responding to diversity on campus and coping with budget constraints.

Available at the UCB campus library | call # LB2331 .D37

NEW! The entire book is also available online as part of netLibrary (accessible only through computers connected to the UC Berkeley campus network).

Please note that some of the chapters below have been modified from the original version.

[Tools for Teaching by Barbara Gross Davis; Jossey-Bass Publishers: San Francisco, 1993. Chapters may not be copied or reprinted without permission.]

Getting Underway

• Preparing or Revising a Course
• The Course Syllabus
• The First Day of Class

Responding to a Diverse Student Body

• Academic Accommodations for Students with Disabilities
• Diversity and Complexity in the Classroom: Considerations of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender
• Reentry Students
• Teaching Academically Diverse Students

Discussion Strategies

• Leading a Discussion
• Encouraging Student Participation in Discussion
• Asking Questions
• Fielding Students’ Questions

Lecture Strategies

• Preparing to Teach the Large Lecture Course
• Delivering a Lecture
• Explaining Clearly
• Personalizing the Large Lecture Class
• Supplements and Alternatives to Lecturing: Encouraging Student Participation
• Maintaining Instructional Quality with Limited Resources

Collaborative and Experiential Strategies

• Collaborative Learning: Group Work and Study Teams
• Role Playing and Case Studies
• Field Work

Enhancing Students Learning and Motivation

• Helping Students Learn
• Learning Styles and Preferences
• Motivating Students

Writing Skills and Homework Assignments

• Helping Students Write Better in All Courses
• Designing Effective Writing Assignments
• Evaluating Students’ Written Work
• Homework: Problem Sets

Testing and Grading

• Quizzes, Tests, and Exams
• Allaying Students’ Anxieties About Tests
• Multiple-Choice and Matching Tests
• Short-Answer and Essay Tests
• Grading Practices
• Calculating and Assigning Grades
• Preventing Academic Dishonesty

Instructional Media and Technology

• Chalkboards
• Flipcharts
• Transparencies and Overhead Projectors
• Slides
• Films and Videotapes
• Computers and Multimedia

Evaluation to Improve Teaching

• Fast Feedback
• Watching Yourself on Videotape
• Self-Evaluation and the Teaching Dossier

Teaching Outside the Classroom

• Holding Office Hours
• Academic Advising and Mentoring Undergraduates
• Guiding, Training, and Supervising Graduate Student Instructors

Finishing Up

• The Last Days of Class
• Student Rating Forms
• Writing Letters of Recommendation