Books & Journal Clubs

Book clubs are offered by CATL each semester. A call will go out each fall to form groups based around selected books. In the spring, book groups will be formed for past UWGB Teaching Scholars. In addition, interested teaching staff members are encouraged to form their own groups based around a teaching-related book of their choice. Books will be lent to members of the reading group from the CATL library.

2013-2012 Featured Books:

• Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn, Cathy Davidson

2012-2011 Featured Books:

• Healing the Heart of Democracy, Parker Palmer
• Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength, John Tierney & Roy Baumeister

2011-2010 Featured Books:

• Collaborative Learning Techniques, Elizabeth Barkley
• The Heart of Higher Education: A Call to Renewal, Parker Palmer, Arthur Zajonc, Mark Nepo, and Megan Scribner
• Student Engagement Techniques, Elizabeth Barkley

Elizabeth Barkley will be the keynote speaker for the January 20, 2011 Faculty Development Conference

2010-2009 Reading Groups Choices:

• The Art of Changing the Brain, James Zull
• Classroom Research, K. Patricia Cross and Mimi Harris Steadman
• Portrait of the Student as a Young Wolf, Darby Lewes

Past Reading Group Choices:

• Advice for New Faculty Members, Robert Boice
• Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher, Stephen Brookfield
• Clueless in Academe, Gerald Graff
• My Freshman Year: What a Professor Learned by Becoming a Student, Rebekah Nathan
• What the Best College Teachers Do, Ken Bain

Additional Reading Group Books:

• Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher, S. Brookfield
• Discussion as a Way of Teaching, Brookfield, Stephen & Preskill, Stephen
• Engaging Large Classes, Christine Stanley and Erin Porter
• Exploring Signature Pedagogies, Regan Gurung, Nancy Chick, & Aeron Haynie
• Learner-Centered Assessment on College Campuses, Huba and Freed
• Learning from Change, Deborah DeZure
• Teaching and Learning Online: New Pedagogies for New Technology, Stephenson, John
• To Improve the Academy, D. Lieberman & C. Wehlburg