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The Missing Course: Everything They Never Taught You about College Teaching

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“What a delight to read David Gooblar’s book on teaching and learning. He wraps important insights into a story of discovery and adventure.”
―Ken Bain, author of What the Best College Teachers Do

College is changing, but the way we train academics is not. Most professors are taught to be researchers first and teachers a distant second, even as scholars are increasingly expected to excel in the classroom. There has been a revolution in teaching and learning over the past generation, and we now have a whole new understanding of how the brain works and how students learn. The Missing Course offers a field guide to the state-of-the-art in teaching and learning and is packed with insights to help students learn in any discipline.

Wary of the folk wisdom of the faculty lounge, David Gooblar builds his lessons on the newest findings and years of experience. From active-learning strategies to ways of designing courses to get students talking, The Missing Course walks you through the fundamentals of the student-centered classroom, one in which the measure of success is not how well you lecture but how much your students actually learn.

“Warm and empirically based, comprehensive but accessible, student-centered and also scientific. We’re so lucky to have Gooblar as a guide.”
―Sarah Rose Cavanagh, author of The Spark of Learning

“Goes beyond critique, offering a series of activities, approaches, and strategies that instructors can implement. His wise and necessary book is a long defense of the idea that a university can be a site of the transformation of self and society.”
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“An invaluable source of insight and wisdom on what it means to work with students. We’ve needed this book for a long time.”
―John Warner, author of Why They Can’t Write

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“Part education theory, part reflection on labor, part toolkit. Gooblar critically diagnoses how teaching gets done (or doesn’t) in modern colleges and universities, but he goes beyond critique, offering a series of activities, approaches, and strategies that instructors can implement. His wise and necessary book is a long defense of the idea that a university can be a site of the transformation of self and society.”―Ryan Boyd, Los Angeles Review of Books

“There really is a missing grad school course―something all too often missing, actually, from higher education, period, something central and essential: the effective and lasting transmission of knowledge and method and even wisdom, as well as the spirit of inquiry behind it all. Just about every discipline still assumes this stuff gets passed down, magically conveyed. Alas, as all too many studies have shown, it doesn’t. And one of the main reasons it doesn’t is that we don’t teach graduate students how to teach. The Missing Course does.”―Chris Walsh, Boston University

“What a delight to read David Gooblar’s new book on teaching and learning. He wraps important insights into a story of discovery and adventure. I’m sure you’ll enjoy it as much as I did.”―Ken Bain, author of What the Best College Teachers Do

“Gooblar adds his voice to a growing chorus questioning the absence of systematic pedagogical training of the professoriate in higher education. With deep empathy for emerging educators and an unwavering focus on students, Gooblar offers a guide towards cultivating a collaborative, active, and inclusive classroom.”―Kimberly Tanner, San Francisco State University

“If David Gooblar’s The Missing Course existed back when I was first in a college classroom, it would’ve saved me many hours of angst, and resulted in significantly improved experiences for my students. Even being more than twenty-five years removed from those days, I found the book an invaluable source of insight and wisdom on what it means to work with students. We’ve needed this book for a long time, and I’m glad it has finally arrived.”―John Warner, author of Why They Can’t Write: Killing the Five-Paragraph Essay and Other Necessities

“The academy is filled with educators trained in their niche expertise but not in the art and craft of teaching. Thankfully, Gooblar steps into the void with a ‘missing course’ in college teaching. This book is both warm and empirically-based, comprehensive but accessible, student-centered and also scientific. We’re so lucky to have Gooblar as a guide, as he generously shares both a careful, thorough evaluation of the pedagogical literature and a host of practical teaching tips amassed over a career.”―Sarah Rose Cavanagh, author of The Spark of Learning

“This lively, accessible, and comprehensive book is the course I wish I’d had the opportunity to take in grad school. Gooblar offers a wealth of evidence-based practices and classroom wisdom to help us teach authentically and inclusively. The Missing Course will be a go-to resource for both new and experienced college teachers.”―Kevin Gannon, Grand View University

“Whether you are a new teacher just starting out, or an experienced teacher looking to up your game, The Missing Course would be well worth your while.”―Patrick Lufkin, Technical Communication

About the Author

David Gooblar is Associate Director of the Center for the Advancement of Teaching at Temple University. His Chronicle of Higher Education column “Pedagogy Unbound” offers college teachers practical advice, informed by research, on how to create more effective student-centered classrooms. He has written widely on American literature, including most recently the book The Major Phases of Philip Roth.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Harvard University Press (August 10, 2021)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 272 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0674260384
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0674260382
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 9.6 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.51 x 1.02 x 8.19 inches

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A very helpful pedagogical handbook

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 21, 2019

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This study is very helpful as a handbook for teaching. I learned a tremendous amount of ideas and proposals concerning in-class activities, assignments, grading, and prep work, as well as helpful advice on the more philosophical and psychological aspects of teaching. For any faculty member who wants to get up to speed on the state of the art of "active learning" (which I certainly did when I bought it), I highly recommend this book. The study is extremely well researched and offers many useful references. The insets the author includes with sample handouts, assignments, and so on, are particularly helpful. The whole book (Chapter 1 in particular) is jam-packed with ideas that will leave faculty members energized about changing their teaching techniques.

My main objection, though, would be that the book is almost entirely uncritical regarding the state of higher education and student outcomes today. It offers no real critique or seriously critical thinking concerning why teaching ought to be done according to the basic vision of active learning contained in this study, which I certainly agree with as a response to the status quo. The pitch of the book—as "the missing course" about pedagogy that graduate students would take to augment their expert knowledge of their discipline in a university system that values teaching as much as it does research—would incline one to think that this mode of large-scale, structural thinking would be included. It is not.

While I think the book does an excellent job of offering advice that is cross-disciplinary and would apply to different modes of academic work, occasionally the ideas it offers—like requiring students to come to office hours for a certain amount of time, mandated faculty observations of their colleagues' teaching, or "wrong answer tests"—sometimes struck me as things that community college professors, for example, would not have a lot of time for.

Those critiques aside, I highly recommend this book as a practical and cutting-edge guide to college-level teaching today.

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This book is a handy compilation of ways of being in the college classroom ...

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This book is a handy compilation of ways of being in the college classroom. I am certainly happy I added it to my shelf of “how-to’s” for teaching. I started teaching around the time Gooblar started writing for Vitae, and his advice has always been useful. This tidy book, however, ties it all together. If you’re looking for the latest on pedagogy, this revives some old forgotten favorites but also teaches new ways to think about your role in higher education with the aim of making you better at what you do. Though this will also suit the new college instructor, I happen to think those with experience may get more from this because Gooblar reminds you about perception, yours and your students’, while also encouraging you to keep evolving and trying new things. He begins by suggesting the students are the subject, no matter what you teach, and gives you examples and practical activities to begin structuring a course with that in mind. The takeaways for me are innumerable, from letting the students help me build my syllabus to suggestions for in-class activities that spark genuine participation. At this point, we all know about the values of active-learning, but Gooblar gives you the practical here, not simply theory. He’s even got some stellar advice on revision, which I plan to use next quarter. As with the guidance in “The Pocket Instructor” and “Teaching with Classroom Response Systems,” the advice in “The Missing Course” makes me feel more adequate in the classroom, and maybe even makes it so.

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This is a very imaginative text. Easy to read . lots of scientific based , easy to implement concepts. One of the best books on education and learning that I have ever read. My favorite overall book is “ Make it Stick” and I am glad this book refers to it. Author uses lots of examples from his own teachings and this is very helpful. It’s obvious he has done a lot of reading and curated the most reliable and relevant frameworks for teaching and most of all learning.

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Essential resource for teachers

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Essential for all teachers.

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A good read for any college professor

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 2, 2019

I enjoyed this book very much. I am early on in my college teaching career, and the book provides many great examples and suggestions to enhance your teaching. The author is primarily a writing instructor, but makes it a point to extend all examples to other disciplines as well. Although I didn't agree with all the author wrote about (if I followed some suggestions at my big university, my students would walk all over me!), I still appreciated the suggestions and it left me with loads to think about. I do wish that there was an actual course about college teaching that they offered me in grad school, but this book is a great kick-start to thinking about it.

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I said it once and say it again - this book is wonderful!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 16, 2019

The academy is filled with educators trained in their niche expertise but not in the art and craft of teaching. Thankfully, Gooblar steps into the void with a ‘missing course’ in college teaching. This book is both warm and empirically-based, comprehensive but accessible, student-centered and also scientific. We’re so lucky to have Gooblar as a guide, as he generously shares both a careful, thorough evaluation of the pedagogical literature and a host of practical teaching tips amassed over a career.

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A good book for first time lecturers

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When I switched to academia after years in practice, there weren't really many guides to teaching available. My colleagues and I just did it, searching our way to educate our students. I am grateful that was the time the university was undergoing a painful relook at itself and I learnt a lot from the debates talking place around me. Years later, I find this gem of a book, and must say: if only I had this with me all those years ago! Great guide to those just switching into the modern world of the flipped classroom!

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