Advice for New Faculty Members: Nihil Nimus is a unique and essential guide to the start of a successful academic career. As its title suggests (nothing in excess), it advocates moderation in ways of working, based on the single-most reliable difference between new faculty who thrive and those who struggle. By following its practical, easy-to-use rules, novice faculty can learn to teach with the highest levels of student approval, involvement, and comprehension, with only modest preparation times and a greater reliance on spontaneity and student participation. Similarly, new faculty can use its rule-based practices to write with ease, increasing productivity, creativity, and publishability through brief, daily sessions of focused and relaxed work. And they can socialize more successfully by learning about often-misunderstood aspects of academic culture, including mentoring. Each rule in Advice for New Faculty Members has been tested on hundreds of new faculty and proven effective over the long run -- even in attaining permanent appointment. It is the first guidebook to move beyond anecdotes and surmises for its directives, based on the author's extensive experience and solid research in the areas of staff and faculty development. For new teachers.

Advice for New Faculty Members

Education & Teaching

Boice, Robert

Higher & Continuing Education

Pearson

This book, by a psychologist with two decades of investment in writers, depicts his programs for instilling patience, pacing, constancy, and resilience in writing. He shows how writers proceed to comfort and fluency by detailing strategies, rules, and turning points for a diversity of writers--professional, professorial, and otherwise. The result is a thorough-going discussion of what helps writers and a review of the broad literature that program participants found most helpful.

How Writers Journey to Comfort and Fluency: A Psychological Adventure (Culture; 4)

Literature & Fiction

Praeger

Procrastination means putting off a difficult, delayable, important task in favor of something easier, quicker, and less anxiety-provoking. It also means delaying vital actions until the performance and result are less than they would have been if done in a timely manner. Similarly, blocking means that we stumble, delay, and panic in response to a demanding responsibility. Blocking typically occurs when we face public scrutiny (as in writing). In this revisionist and sometimes irreverent book, the author takes academic and professional psychologists to task for neglecting a pair of related problems that are often derided but that can be profoundly debilitating for individuals and economically devastating for schools, businesses, and communities.

Procrastination and Blocking

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Here is a proven book to help scholars master writing as a productive, enjoyable, and successful experience -- Author, Robert Boice, prepared this self-help manual for professors who want to write more productively, painlessly, and successfully. It reflects the author's two decades of experiences and research with professors as writers -- by compressing a lot of experience into a brief, programmatic framework. Like the actual sessions and workshops in which the author works with writers, this book admonishes and reassures. In the innovative book lies the path for sustained, highly productive scholarly writing!

Professors as Writers: A Self-Help Guide to Productive Writing

New Forums Press

This book offers proven support strategies to help new faculty thrive as teachers, writers, and colleagues. It describes a range of specific programs that help new faculty adjust to the campus and self-help programs that teach newcomers to help themselves.

The New Faculty Member: Supporting and Fostering Professional Development (Jossey Bass Higher & Adult Education Series)

Schools & Teaching

Jossey-Bass

Based on his many years of teaching, training, and writing, the author has developed ten basic principles that together form a foundation for effective teaching. These unique and interrelated principles are empirically tested and address attitudes as well as actions. Practicing the principles can bring faster success to classroom performance, can generalize to other tasks such as scholarly writing, and can provide a basis for making better use of traditional advice about teaching improvement. With the first-order principles, teachers learn to relax and manage their jobs and their own growth as teachers. This is a valuable resource for both novice and experienced teachers.
The first-order principles, each building on the last, are: 1) Moderate classroom incivilities with prosocial immediacies 2) Wait 3) Begin before feeling ready 4) Work and teach in brief, regular sessions 5) Stop 6) Moderate overattachment to content and overreaction to criticism 7) Moderate negative thinking and strong emotions 8) Let others do some of the work 9) Welcome learning and change 10) Build resilience by limiting wasted efforts 
Boice describes each principle and provides practices to achieve it. In a separate section, he provides fundamental strategies for efficient writing and correlates the writing and teaching processes. This is a valuable resource for both novice and experienced teachers.

First-Order Principles for College Teachers: Ten Basic Ways to Improve the Teaching Process

Computers & Technology

Programming

Anker Publishing

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Advice for New Faculty Members

How Writers Journey to Comfort and Fluency: A Psychological Adventure (Culture; 4)

Procrastination and Blocking

Professors as Writers: A Self-Help Guide to Productive Writing

The New Faculty Member: Supporting and Fostering Professional Development (Jossey Bass Higher & Adult Education Series)

First-Order Principles for College Teachers: Ten Basic Ways to Improve the Teaching Process

Professors as Writers: A Self-Help Guide to Productive Writing