| dc.contributor | Sophia Andres, Art Brownlow, Beth Brunk-Chavez, Kevin Cokley, Mary Lynn Crow, John Daly, Patrick Davis, Diana Dominguez, Susan Doty, Jill Fleuriet, Neil Gray, John Hadjimarcou, Karen Huxtable, Brent Iverson, Mary McNaughton-Cassill, Alex Piquero, Robert Prentice, Kenneth Roemer, Weston Rose, Catherine Ross, Kevin Schug, Barbara Shipman, John Sibert, David J. Silva, Michael Starbird, James Vick, and Michael Webber | |
| dc.contributor.author | The University of Texas System Academy of Distinguished Teachers | |
| dc.contributor.editor | Brownlow, Art | |
| dc.contributor.editor | Brunk-Chavez, Beth | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-10-14T21:31:17Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-10-14T21:31:17Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2020-10-02 | |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 978-1-64816-999-1 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10106/29523 | |
| dc.description | Teaching is a powerful profession. Whether you teach workshop-style classes of twenty-five students or convene your class in lecture halls with five hundred or more students, whether you teach first-year students or doctoral ones, your influence is profound. You are the representative of and the gateway into your discipline, and it is up to you to ensure students learn what they need to know to move on to the next level. But more than that, you have the potential to change students’ lives – to encourage them to think openly and strategically about the world around them, to help them communicate effectively with a wide range of audiences, and to help them contribute to the disciplinary, public and personal communities to which they currently belong and the ones to which they aspire to belong someday. But that potential, that power, that responsibility can be overshadowed by day-to-day uncertainties about how to be an effective teacher. Where can you turn to get advice or practical suggestions from experts? The Little Orange Book: Short Lessons in Excellent Teaching is modeled after Harvey Penick’s Little Red Book: Lessons and Teachings from a Lifetime in Golf. The vignettes and commentaries included here were written by the members of the University of Texas System Academy of Distinguished Teachers. This honorific group represents the most accomplished and renowned teachers from the entire University of Texas System. The UT System has eight academic campuses and over 200,000 students. Each campus has some shade of orange as its chosen school color, inspiring the title of this volume, but the pieces are intended to be relevant well beyond the Lone Star State. The Little Orange Book contains short essays focused on the practical fundamentals of great teaching, revealing best strategies in and out of the classroom, no matter what the discipline or level of instruction. The topics range from simple but important tips such as remembering students’ names and creating a safe zone within the classroom to more advanced considerations such as determining when to use groups and drawing concepts for better understanding. There are also motivational pieces that focus on inspiring curiosity and introducing students to the tantalizing secrets of your discipline. Intermixed with the passages are one-liners and questions intended to provoke thought, reflection, discussion, and ultimately inspiration to try new things in your own class. We hope that readers – new and experienced teachers alike – will find many useful suggestions while reading The Little Orange Book. Teaching at all levels is currently undergoing tremendous change, and it will continue to do so. But the fundamentals of great teaching, like the fundamentals of a great golf game, are timeless. | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | The Little Orange Book captures reflections, tips and commentaries on teaching and learning from the members of the University of Texas System Academy of Distinguished Teachers. Its many vignettes span a wide range of topics and teaching interests, from establishing a safe learning space to classroom silences, from curriculum development to modeling the best teachers, and from giving thanks to those teachers who came before us to leaving our own legacies. The Little Orange Book is the perfect text for first-time college instructors who are just getting started on their instructional careers, as well as longtime faculty who have many experiences in the college-level classroom.
*This publication was not supported by the UTA CARES Grant Program.
[Visit the books’ Pressbooks page to download the OER in other formats or to access an updated web version of it. https://uta.pressbooks.pub/littleorangebook/] | en_US |
| dc.description.tableofcontents | I. It Starts with Attitude — II. Teaching and Learning are Based on Communication — III. Techniques That Improve Learning — IV. College Students Need to Learn How to Learn — V. Concluding Thoughts — Appendix A: The Academy — Appendix B: UT System Academic Institutions — Appendix C: Fellows of the UT System Academy of Distinguished Teachers — Commentaries — About the Authors | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | University of Texas at Arlington, Mavs Open Press | en_US |
| dc.subject | Education | en_US |
| dc.subject | Effective teaching | |
| dc.subject | College teaching | |
| dc.title | The Little Orange Book: Short Lessons in Excellent Teaching | en_US |
| dc.type | Book | en_US |
| dc.rights.license | Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ | |
