Skills for University Teachers (On Methods, Trust, and Response in Classroom Teaching)

Author: (American) Brookfield, written by Zhou Xinhong, translated by Hong Ning
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Publishing Date: 2005-12-01
Features: This book was completed in 1990 to commemorate the author's 20 years of teaching at the university. The author wrote this book to tell the real stories from his teaching career. The story is filled with unexpected twists, surprising events, and sudden surprises, complex, changing, yet passionate. The author wanted to clearly express these passions during the narration so that other teachers could see their own emotional shadows in the words. In fact, this book is a survival manual to help university teachers overcome recurring problems and escape various dilemmas; these situations are unavoidable in their teaching practice. Additionally, all university teachers will occasionally experience a sense of incompetence and guilt, as they tend to assume that all their colleagues are effortlessly skilled teaching models, while only they struggle to control the classroom. Writing this book was also to alleviate their feelings. Finally, this book is a response to the author's past teaching life: during those days, everything that happened in the classroom never unfolded as the author had scripted it beforehand; when the students left after class, they did not smile with a sense of self-fulfillment, but instead, their expressions were anger, confusion, and resentment.