College Teaching Studies in Methods of Teaching in the College

"College Teaching" by Paul Klapper examines teaching strategies in higher education during the early 1900s. It addresses how colleges can improve their teaching and fix the problems that make it hard to teach well. The book starts by pointing out that there is not much written research on college teaching compared to elementary and high school education. Klapper thinks good teaching is super important and wants other smart people to start thinking and writing about it, too. He mentions that colleges used to hire mainly religious leaders and smart people straight out of school as teachers. Klapper argues for a more organized training of teachers, because current methods often aren't planned out well or based on good ideas. This leads to a gap between what professors teach and how students learn. The book is mostly for teachers who want to make their classes better and help students learn more effectively.