Longitudinal Educator, 3RC, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh

Teaching Resources [Credit - Dr. Robert Arnold]

  • Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action by Simon Sinek

  • How We Learn: The Surprising Truth About When, Where, and Why It Happens by Benedict Carey

  • Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning by James Lang

  • Distracted: Why students can’t focus and what you can do about it. James Lang

  • Outsmart Your Brain: Why Learning is Hard and How You Can Make It Easy by Daniel T. Willingham

  • Why Don't Students Like School? A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the

  • Mind Works and What It Means for the Classroom by Daniel T. Willingham

  • The Power of Mindful Learning by Ellen Langer

  • What the Best College Teachers Do by Ken Bain

  • Tools for Teaching by Barbara Gross Davis

  • Engaging Ideas: The Professor’s Guide to Integrating Writing, Critical Thinking, and Active

  • Learning in the Classroom by John C. Bean

  • Teaching for Successful Intelligence by Robert Sternberg and Elena Grigorenko

  • McKeachie’s Teaching Tips by Wilbert McKeachie and Marilla Svinicki

  • Creating Significant Learning Experiences: An Integrated Approach to Designing College

  • Courses by Dee Fink

  • Powerful teaching by Pooja K Agarwal and Patricia Bain

  • Teaching Walk Thrus: Five-step guides for instructional coaching by Tom Sherrington, Oliver

  • Caviglioli - volume 1 and 2 and 3

  • How we learn: A Visual Guide. Weinstein Y, Sumeracki M, Caviglioli, O.

  • Motivated Teaching: Harnessing the science of motivation to boost attention and effort in the

  • classroom Pep Mcrae

  • How Learning Works: Seven Research-Based Principles for Smart Teaching 2nd Edition by

  • Susan A. Ambrose, Michael W. Bridges, Michele DiPietro, Marsha C. Lovett, Marie K. Norman

Books About Assessment

  • Understanding By Design by Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe

  • Educative Assessment: Designing Assessment to Inform and Improve Student Performance by

  • Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe

  • Introduction to Rubrics by Danelle Stevens et al

  • Books That Are Relevant to Teaching

  • Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do by Claude Steele

  • Thanks for the Feedback by Douglas Stone and Shiela Heen

  • Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most by Douglas Stone and Bruce Patton

  • Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise by Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool

  • Imagine: How Creativity Works by Jonah Lehrer

Blogs

  • Teach Like a Champion Blog: http://teachlikeachampion.com/blog/

  • Teacherhead: https://teacherhead.com/

  • Faculty Focus: https://www.facultyfocus.com/

  • ProfHacker: http://www.chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/

  • Hack Education: http://hackeducation.com/

  • Wired Campus: http://www.chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/

  • Powerful Teaching: https://www.powerfulteaching.org

  • Grit and character lab: https://characterlab.org/tips-of-the-week/

  • Peer reviewed Education blog https://peerreviewededucationblog.com/

  • Ollie Lovell Learning to teach blog https://www.ollielovell.com/blog/

  • Learning Scientists https://www.learningscientists.org

Podcasts

  • Teaching in Higher Ed: A podcast about the art and science of teaching in higher ed,

https://teachinginhighered.com/episodes/

  • Hybrid Pedagogy: This podcast is hosted by Chris Friend and features interviews with creative

pedagogues working in or out of academia, sharing insights and perspectives on how we can

enhance learning and teaching in our lives.

https://hybridpedagogy.org/tag/podcast/

  • Hidden Brain: The Hidden Brain helps curious people understand the world – and themselves.

Using science and storytelling, Hidden Brain's host Shankar Vedantam reveals the unconscious

patterns that drive human behavior, the biases that shape our choices, and the triggers that

direct the course of our relationships.

http://www.npr.org/podcasts/510308/hidden-brain

  • Invisibilia: Invisibilia (Latin for invisible things) is about the invisible forces that control human

behavior – ideas, beliefs, assumptions and emotions. Co-hosted by Lulu Miller, Hanna Rosin

and Alix Spiegel, Invisibilia interweaves narrative storytelling with scientific research that will

ultimately make you see your own life differently.

http://www.npr.org/podcasts/510307/invisibilia

  • The TED Radio Hour: The TED Radio Hour is a journey through fascinating ideas: astonishing

inventions, fresh approaches to old problems, new ways to think and create. Based on Talks

given by riveting speakers on the world-renowned TED stage, each show is centered on a

common theme – such as the source of happiness, crowd-sourcing innovation, power shifts, or

inexplicable connections.

http://www.npr.org/podcasts/510298/ted-radio-hour

 People to follow on Twitter

  • Mike Hobbiss @mikehobbiss

  • Mrs Pearce @PearceMrs

  • Nick Pointer-@nickpointer

  • Mirta Fagundes @BehaviourBabe

  • Steplab @Steplab_co

  • Learning & the Brain @learningandtheb

  • Retrieval Practice @RetrieveLearn

  • Marc Smith @marcxsmith

  • Sarah Cottingham @overpractised

  • Jamie Clark @XpatEducator

  • Tom Needham @Tom_Needham_

  • Paul A. Kirschner @P_A_Kirschner

  • Peps @PepsMccrea

  • Kate Jones @KateJones_teach

  • Walkthrus @WALKTHRUs_5

  • Dylan Wiliam @dylanwiliam

  • Learning Scientists@AceThatTest

  • Adam Boxer @adamboxer1

  • Tom Bennett OBE @tombennett71

  • Tom Sherrington @teacherhead

  • Doug Lemov @Doug_Lemov

  • Daniel Willingham @DTWillingham

  • oliver caviglioli @olicav

  • Efrat Furst @EfratFurst

  • Michelle Pacansky-Brock @brocansky

  • Med Ed Pittsburgh @MedEdPGH

  • Jessie Stommel @Jessifer

Teaching is the highest form of understanding.
— Aristotle