The Skillful Teacher, Stephen D. Brookfield
The Skillful Teacher, Stephen D. Brookfield
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The Skillful Teacher
On Technique, Trust, and Responsiveness in the Classroom

Author: Stephen D. Brookfield

Narrator: Jack de Golia

Unabridged: 9 hr 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 06/12/2019


Synopsis

Energize your classrooms with these key techniques for college teaching.

Students say the best teachers get them excited about learning, stretch their thinking, and keep them actively involved in class. But with increasingly diverse classrooms and constantly changing technology, each semester throws up new challenges for engaging students.

Discover how to keep your teaching, and your students, energized with The Skillful Teacher, a practical guide to effective techniques, approaches, and methods for today's college classrooms. Providing insights, reflections, and advice from his four decades of college teaching, Stephen Brookfield now adapts his successful methods to teaching online, working with diverse student populations, and making classrooms truly inclusive. As well as being completely revised, updated, and rewritten, this edition adds six brand new chapters on teaching critical thinking, using play and creativity in the classroom, teaching in teams, helping students take responsibility for learning, teaching about racism, and exercising teacher power responsibly.

About Stephen D. Brookfield

Stephen D. Brookfield is the John Ireland Endowed Chair at the University of St. Thomas in Minneapolis, Minnesota. For more than forty-five years, he has taught in England, Canada, Australia, and the United States. A six-time winner of the Cyril O. Houle Award for Outstanding Literature in Adult Education, he is the author or coauthor of numerous books on teaching, including Engaging Imagination, Teaching for Critical Thinking, Powerful Techniques for Teaching Adults, and Discussion as a Way of Teaching.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Leslie

I enjoyed the tone and voice of this book. It was easy to read. It's also easy to relate to the author and his classroom experiences. This book would be a good read for someone just getting into teaching higher education or for someone who wants to learn about what is and isn't working in her classro......more

Goodreads review by Dan

Not too enamored with his writing style but did pick up a few tips I'll use in consulting. Did think his examples from the UK were valuable to points he was attempting to make. When reading with the knowledge of his British upbringing his perspective was more to the left than would have liked. He wa......more

Goodreads review by Aldon

I read this book for a seminary course in Christ Education. I greatly appreciated Brookfield's approach to education. I am unlikely to become a classroom teacher, so I may never get a chance to test out some of the approaches he presents. However, the underlying considerations will be very important......more