Teaching Concerns, Book Review. Ten Basic Ways to Improve the Teaching Process By Robert Boice.
Good teaching is an endless process of reinventing the wheel.
Instructors, isolated in their classrooms, develop their own approach through trial and error, not by picking up a set of guidelines. Robert Boice begs to differ. In his book, First-Order Principles for College Teachers , Boice argues that basic skills of excellent teachers may be codified, learned, and applied to a wide range of teaching situations. Before Feeling Ready Work and Teach in Brief, Regular Sessions Stop Moderate Overattachment to Content and Overreaction to Criticism. The list reveals the weaknesses and the strengths of Boice's approach.