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Donna M. Qualters, PhD

Dr. Donna Qualters is director of the Center for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching at Tufts University and an associate professor of Community Medicine and an adjunct associate professor of Education.

Navigating Ethical Waters in the College Classroom

Should teachers strike?
How should government balance privacy rights with national security?
Should companies value their shareholders over the environment?
How quickly should a software company fix a known bug?

Regardless of discipline, faculty are faced with ethical issues in our classes around a variety of sensitive topics, and students will question the ethics of certain practices or topics in our field. As trained academics, we are not always comfortable having discussions where there is no clear right or wrong answer or talking about ethical areas in which we do not feel we are experts. So, how do you respond to students who really want to know “the answer” to these types of questions?

Donna M. Qualters, PhD January 30, 2017

Six Steps for Turning Your Teaching into Scholarship

In 1997 Ernest Boyer identified the concept of the Scholarship of Teaching. This was the first time that TEACHING had been identified as legitimate scholarship. Over time this idea has evolved into the movement called “SoTL” or the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. Many of us are scholarly teachers; we read the literature, plan, assess, reflect, and revise. But what makes our teaching scholarship is very different. Lee Shulman (1999) clearly delineated the difference. To be scholarship, teaching must become public, be an object of critical review and evaluation by members of one’s community, and it must be built upon and developed.

Donna M. Qualters, PhD September 9, 2013

A FREE PUBLICATION FROM THE CREATORS OF THE TEACHING PROFESSOR

Donna M. Qualters, PhD

Navigating Ethical Waters in the College Classroom

Six Steps for Turning Your Teaching into Scholarship

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