The Art and Craft of College Teaching: A Guide for New Professors and Graduate Students

The book provides a hands-on guide to the complexities of the college classroom for instructors in their first five years of teaching independently. The chapters survey the existing literature on how to effectively teach young adults, offering specific solutions to the most commonly faced classroom dilemmas. Rotenberg encourages new teachers to support their students as individual learners who are engaged in a program of study beyond their individual class. An extensive discussion of the relationship between classroom design and class size enable the new instructor to better handle the challenges of contemporary college classrooms.

Robert Rotenberg has taught at DePaul University since 1979 in the sociology and anthropology departments and the international studies program.