Book Clubs
The Center for Faculty Excellence is excited to offer two Book Clubs during Spring 2022.
Sign up deadline: January 21, 2022
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success, How we can learn to fulfill our potential
Book Author: Carol S. Dweck, Ph.D.
Book Description (Excerpted from Amazon):After decades of research, world-renowned Stanford University psychologist Carol S. Dweck, Ph.D., discovered a simple but groundbreaking idea: the power of mindset. In this brilliant book, she shows how success in school, work, sports, the arts, and almost every area of human endeavor can be dramatically influenced by how we think about our talents and abilities. People with a fixed mindset—those who believe that abilities are fixed—are less likely to flourish than those with a growth mindset—those who believe that abilities can be developed. Mindset reveals how great parents, teachers, managers, and athletes can put this idea to use to foster outstanding accomplishment.
In this edition, Dweck offers new insights into her now famous and broadly embraced concept. She introduces a phenomenon she calls false growth mindset and guides people toward adopting a deeper, truer growth mindset. She also expands the mindset concept beyond the individual, applying it to the cultures of groups and organizations. With the right mindset, you can motivate those you lead, teach, and love—to transform their lives and your own.
Faculty & Staff Book Club Meeting Dates
- Tuesday, February 22 from 2 pm to 3:30 pm, virtual via Zoom
- Tuesday, March 29 from 2 pm to 3:30 pm, virtual via Zoom
- Tuesday, April 19 from 2 pm to 3:30 pm, virtual via Zoom
Teach Students How to Learn: Strategies You Can Incorporate Into Any Course to Improve Student Metacognition, Study Skills and Motivation
Book Author: Saundra Yancy McGuire
Book Description (Excerpted from Amazon):“Teachers need to learn as much as their students. In a masterly and spirited exposition, spangled with wit and exhortation, rife with pragmatic strategies, Saundra McGuire teaches teachers how to awake in their students the powers dormant in them. Be aware, and you will learn!”–Roald Hoffmann, 1981 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
For over a decade Saundra McGuire has been acclaimed for her presentations and workshops on metacognition and student learning because the tools and strategies she shares have enabled faculty to facilitate dramatic improvements in student learning and success. This book encapsulates the model and ideas she has developed in the past fifteen years, ideas that are being adopted by an increasing number of faculty with considerable effect.
Faculty & Staff Book Club Meeting Dates
- Wednesday, February 23 from 11:00 am to 12:30 pm, virtual via Zoom
- Wednesday, March 30 from 11:00 am to 12:30 pm, virtual via Zoom
- Wednesday, April 20 from 11:00 am to 12:30 pm, virtual via Zoom
Books Read in Previous Book Clubs
- Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do by Claude M. Steele (Fall 2021)
- Keeping Us Engaged: Student Perspectives (and Research-Based Strategies) on What Works and Why by Christine Harrington and 50 college students (Fall 2021)
- Becoming a Student-Ready College: A New Culture of Leadership for Student Success by Tia Brown McNair, et al. (Summer 2021)
- Bandwidth Recovery: Helping Students Reclaim Cognitive Resources Lost to Poverty, Racism, and Social Marginalization by Cia Verschelden (Spring 2021)
- Small Teaching Online: Applying Learning Science in Online Classes by Flower Darby and James M. Lang (Fall 2020, Spring 2021)
- The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life, Freedom and Justice by Anthony Ray Hinton (Fall 2020)
- Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning by James M. Lang (Spring 2020)
- The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements by Sam Kean (Spring 2020)
- What the Best College Teachers Do by Ken Bain (Spring & Summer 2019)
- Generation Z Goes to College by Corey Seemiller and Meghan Grace (Fall 2019)