Contents
I: PORTRAITS OF EXCELLENCE
1 More Than Just Luck: A Brief Biography of Wilbert J. McKeachie
2 “I Can’t Ever Remember not Wanting to be a Teacher”:
A Brief Biography of Charles L. Brewer
II: ESSENTIAL QUALITIES AND SKILLS OF EFFECTIVE TEACHERS
3 Elements of Master Teaching
4 Classroom Presence
5 Lecturing
6 Humor and College Teaching
7 Process/Pedagogy
8 Teaching for Critical Thinking: A Four-Part Model to Enhance Thinking Skills
9 Writing: Models, Examples, Teaching Advice, and a Heartfelt Plea
10 The Teaching–Advising Connection
11 Training Graduate Teaching Assistants
III: TEACHING WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF MODERN ACADEMIC LIFE
12 Teaching, Research, and Scholarship
13 Integrating Teaching and Service to Enhance Learning
14 A Portrait of Teaching Painted by Early Career Faculty
15 Peer Review for Meaningful Teaching Enhancement
16 Beyond Tenure: The Teaching Portfolio for Reflection and Change
17 Representing the Intellectual Work in Teaching Through Peer-Reviewed Course Portfolios
18 Teaching at a Liberal Arts College: With a Little Help From My Friends
19 Differences in Teaching in a Liberal Arts College Versus Research University
20 Lessons From Life: A Journey in Lifelong Learning
21 Promoting the Teaching of Psychology: A History of NITOP 271
IV: TEACHING WITH TECHNOLOGY
22 Wiring the Introductory Psychology Course: How Should We Harness the Internet?
23 Web-Based Resources
24 Technology in the Classroom: Traditions in Psychology
25 The Challenges of Distance Education
26 Come, Putative Ends of Psychology’s Digital Future
V: TEACHING ABOUT PSYCHOLOGY’S DOMAINS
27 Teaching the History of Psychology
28 Teaching Biological Psychology to Introductory Psychology Students
29 Teaching Statistics and Research Methods
30 Teaching the Learning Course: Philosophy and Methods
31 Using Social Psychology to Teach Social Psychology: How the Field Informs the Course
32 Teach More Than Personality in the Personality Course 4
33 Opening Students’ Eyes and Minds: Teaching the Psychology of Women
34 Incorporating Cross-Cultural Perspectives into the Psychology Curriculum: Challenges and Strategies
35 Designing a Course in Industrial/Organizational Psychology to Achieve Eight Desirable Student Outcomes
36 Psychology of Religion: Then and Now
37 Environmental Psychology: Cognition, Affect, and Meaningful Action
VI: THE FINAL WORD
38 Ebbs, Flows, and Progress in the Teaching of Psychology
39 Reflections on an Academic Career: From Which Side of the Looking Glass?
