The Teaching-Learning Trinity
By Steve J. Thien, Kansas State University sjthien@ksu.edu I have found it significant to visualize teaching and learning not as a duality but as a
Steve J. Thien
August 13, 2008
Philosophy of Teaching
A Brief Statement of My Philosophy of Teaching
I am committed to the liberal arts ideal that education should familiarize students with the intellectual, spiritual, artistic, and scientific traditions that women and men
Michael Glaser
August 4, 2008
Four Teaching Maxims That Endure
As part of a special section in a recent issue of Teaching Psychology, Bill McKeachie, author of the best-known book on college teaching, the venerable
Maryellen Weimer, PhD
August 3, 2008
Civic Engagement
In 2002, Campus Compact, with help from a Carnegie Corporation of New York grant, began investigating best practices in civic engagement. The three-year project looked at community colleges in the first year, which produced a set of resources that community-college leaders can use to help improve engagement with the community.
The project included surveys, telephone interviews, and on-site visits to determine best practices in civic engagement. An important part of this work was the structured interview protocol, which posed the same questions to different groups—administrators, faculty, students, and community members—around 13 indicators of civic engagement.
Rob Kelly
July 5, 2008
The Scholarship of Teaching in the Community College
In his influential Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities of the Professoriate, Ernest L. Boyer proposed that the definition of “scholarship” be broadened beyond the predominant emphasis on the scholarship of discovery to encompass the scholarship of application, the scholarship of integration, and the scholarship of teaching. What are the objectives of these four different domains of scholarship?
John Braxton
July 1, 2008
Are You as Good a Teacher as You Think?
Now there’s an article title that gets your attention — at least it got mine. The article that follows this title (reference below) is a
Maryellen Weimer, PhD
June 9, 2008