Contributors.

Foreword.

Preface.

Introduction

Part I. Teaching Characteristics.

1. What Makes a Good Teacher? (Peter G. Beidler).

2. Stretching Minds: Personal and Academic Aspects of Teaching (James W. Vargo).

3. Classroom Atmosphere: A Personal Inventory (Harvey D. Blankespoor).

4. Connecting with Literature: The Art of Involvement (Barbara Paul-Emile).

5. Relations of Mutual Trust and Objects of Common Interest 9John David Dawson).

6. Motivating and Mentoring: teaching the Developmental Student (Vashti U. Muse).

Part II. Teaching Practices.

7. The Student Who Felt Ugly and How She Played Richard III (Martha Andresen).

8. Opportunities and Responsibilities: Competence, Creativity, Collaboration, and Caring (Sally Phillips).

9. Teaching Through the Curriculum: The Development of a Comprehensive honors Program (Anthony J. Lisska).

10. Managing Discussion in Large Classes (J. Dennis Huston).

11. Suit the Action to the Word: Teaching Minds and Bodies in the College Classroom (Michael Flachmann).

12. Improving Teaching Through Teaching Portfolio Revisions: A Context and Case for reflective Practice (John Zubizarreta).

13. Creating Global classrooms (Mark C. Taylor).

Part III. Teaching Philosophies.

14. The Community in the Classroom/The Classroom in the Community (Patrick Parks).

15. Teaching as Subversion (Teofilo F. Ruiz).

16. A Story Waiting to Be Told: Narratives of Teaching, Scholarship, and Theory.

17. Feminist Pedagogy: A Voice of One’s Own (Rosmarie Tong).

18. The Liberal Arts and Civic Education: Grounds for Inspired Teaching (Ralph Ketcham).

19. What Teaching Teaches Me: How the Holocaust Informs My Philosophy of Education (John K. Roth).

20. The Carnegie Professors of the Year: Models for Teaching Success (John R. Lough).

21. What This Book teaches Me (John K. Roth).

Index.