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Ask HN: Favorite books about being a good teacher/research professor?

• sogen 8y ago
  The Essential 55: An Award-Winning Educator's Rules for Discovering the Successful Student in Every Child
• itamarst 8y ago
  How Learning Works: https://www.amazon.com/How-Learning-Works-Research-Based-Principles/dp/0470484101 https://www.amazon.com/How-Learning-Works-Research-Based-Pri... I also enjoyed https://www.amazon.com/Start-Story-Teaching-Journals-Collection/dp/1933531061/ https://www.amazon.com/Start-Story-Teaching-Journals-Collect... (Caveat: not a professor, but that's the target audience for both books.)
• copperx 8y ago
  For University culture, The University: An Owner's Manual by Henry Rosovsky. For teaching, McKeachie's Teaching Tips by Wilbert McKeachie. For when you get assigned a course that is outside your confort zone, Teaching What You Don't Know by Therese Huston. There are many great books; some universities have their own curated lists. Here's Stanford's: https://teachingcommons.stanford.edu/resources/teaching/planning-your-approach/selected-bibliography-college-teaching https://teachingcommons.stanford.edu/resources/teaching/plan...
• thorin 8y ago
  Plato - Republic.