Teaching College

The Ultimate Guide to Lecturing, Presenting, and Engaging Students

By: Norman Eng

Narrated by: Joseph Brookhouse

Your students aren't reading. They aren't engaged in class. Getting them to talk is like pulling teeth.

Whatever the situation, your reality is not meeting your expectations. Change is needed. But who's got the time?

Or maybe you're just starting out, and you want to get it right the first time.

If so, Teaching College: The Ultimate Guide to Lecturing, Presenting, and Engaging Students is the blueprint. Written for the early career college professor, this easy-to-implement college instruction guide teaches you to:

• Think like advertisers to understand your target audience - your students
• Adopt the active learning approach of the best K-12 teachers
• Write a syllabus that gets noticed and read
• Develop lessons that stimulate deep engagement
• Create slide presentations that students can digest
• Take charge of your college classroom management
• Get students to do the readings, participate more, and care about your course

Secrets like "focusing on students, not content" and building a "customer" profile of the class will change the way you teach. The author, Dr. Norman Eng, argues that much of these approaches and techniques have been effectively used in marketing and K-12 education, two industries that could greatly improve how college instructors teach.

Find out how to hack the world of higher education instruction and have your course become the standard by which all other courses will be measured against. Whether you are an adjunct, a lecturer, an assistant professor, or even a graduate assistant, effective teaching is within your grasp.

©2017 Norman Eng (P)2017 Norman Eng

Very practical and helpful

I've been a college professor at the university level for 16 years, and am always looking for resources to improve my teaching, better reach my students, and help them retain material in creative, practical ways. This book was very helpful for all those reasons, and more. I plan to go through the audio book multiple times and make a list of the many suggested teaching techniques Eng covers.

A really hidden gem about teaching

Teaching college isn't a book that lots of people have heard about, but that surely isn't fair in light of such wonderfull tips that the book provides. It's an essential book for those who intend to teach, not only on the higher education as the title shall sugest, but it can be quite usefull for those who work with lectures and workshops.
The narration by Joseph Brookhouse is adequate to the context of the book, making it an easy listen with no major problems.
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Lots of practical application!

I really enjoyed this book! The author comes from a great place having worked in elementary education, marketing, and teaching college. I am an adjunct teacher at the local university and agreed that we are trained well in our content, but not as well in our pedagogy. Excellent read for anybody in education.

Good advice for post-secondary educators

Any additional comments?

This book was a great reminder of perspectives, tips, and strategies for teaching at the post-secondary level. Most of the ideas in the book are consistent with what I learned as a B.Ed. student (class of 2007), and with the professional development resources/training at the post-secondary institution where I currently teach full-time. Although I'm generally familiar with the material, I definitely believe that it was worthwhile to review the ideas in the book and reflect on ways that I could improve my teaching. The audio narration was well done and I truly appreciate it when audiobook authors provide links to resources! (I'd be in heaven if I could get digital access to illustrations from print copies of my audiobooks, via password protected web pages...)

Based on my own experiences as a post-secondary educator, I would suggest that you shouldn't feel like you need to follow all of the tips in this book (there are so many good ideas, it would be overwhelming to try to adopt all of them at once). However, if you follow at least some of them you will become a better educator. Even minor changes can result in major improvements (from a student engagement perspective). If you're as engaged with the students as you want them to be engaged with you, then you'll be able to detect what works and what doesn't work when you teach. Don't expect perfection right away, adopt a continuous improvement approach to your lessons, and enjoy the high that you feel at the end of a really effective class (it helps offset those days when students don't seem to find any of your jokes funny!).

Anyway, this book was an enjoyable read. Even if the material is familiar to some readers, it's never a bad idea to think about one's philosophy of teaching and consider how that philosophy translates into practice.

I provided my opinion in exchange for a complimentary copy of the audiobook from the author, narrator, or publisher.

Great book. This should be a required book

This book should be a required reading for every college teacher! The strategies are very good to use. thank you for writing it

a little dated but good.

Thuis really helped me refine lectures and consider how to improve my active learning in class for my grad courses. A good survey and step by step guide.

It will take me DAYS

Absolutely critical importance & wonderfully creative ways to take charge & have fun in the classroom! it will take me DAYS, maybe even months to implement all the wonderful thoughts this book has shared! links to cisit as a follow up...ya, a definate read for anyone teaching!!

Teaching College

I am scheduled to start teaching my first semester at a local community college in the fall. Your book has given me a clear understanding of what to expect and proven strategies to use in the classroom setting. I really enjoyed your book, and I look forward to visiting your website! Excellent book for new and experienced teachers!!!

Not just for new professors!

When our college dean recommended this book - and purchased it for new faculty - I got curious. I immediately downloaded it and binge-listened (while driving, cooking, etc.). Only three days out from our semester, I immediately redesigned my syllabus. While I was already doing *some* of the methods he recommended, he really opened my eyes to how I can better engage my own students. I teach and upper-level, required programming course and my weaker students get discouraged quickly because they can immediately tell they are not prepared. I am going implement some of the strategies starting Day 1. I would love to see more for those of us who do not have assignments that evaluate presentations and prose, but teach mathematics and programming. Also, I do appreciate the wordsmithing in a positive light, but there are academic integrity violations that have consequences and that must be clear to the student. I am still ironing that bit out. In closing, I was thinking that this book is not just beneficial to new professors, but essential to those teaching for decades the way we were taught.

Great Resource!

I teach professional development, and this book has greatly changed my teaching style. This book helps me make teaching more fun and impactful for my students.