Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

“Viewing the work of the classroom as a site for inquiry, asking and answering questions about students’ learning in ways that can improve one’s classroom and also advance the larger profession of teaching.”

Huber and Hutchings. 2005. The Advancement of Learning: Building the Teaching Commons.

“The scholarship of teaching and learning goes beyond scholarly teaching and involves systematic study of teaching and/or learning and the public sharing and review of such work through presentations, publications and performances.”

Boyer. 1990. Scholarship Reconsidered. Priorities of the Professoriate.

“One telling measure of how differently teaching is regarded from traditional scholarship or research within the academy is what a difference it makes to have a “problem” in one versus the other. In scholarship and research, having a “problem” is at the heart of the investigative process. …. But in one’s teaching, a “problem” is something you don’t’ want to have and if you have one, you probably want to fix it.”

Randy Bass. 1999. “The Scholarship of Teaching: What’s the Problem?” Inventio

“Changing the status of the problem in teaching from terminal remediation to ongoing investigation is precisely what the movement for a scholarship of teaching is all about.”

Randy Bass. 1999. “The Scholarship of Teaching: What’s the Problem?” Inventio

What problem have you observed in your What problem have you observed in your classroom that intrigues you? State classroom that intrigues you? State your problem in 1-2 sentences.your problem in 1-2 sentences.

What Unifies?

“My journey that had begun with a crisis had progressed to a problem, in fact a set of problems. “

Randy Bass. 1999. “The Scholarship of Teaching: What’s the Problem?” Inventio

Draft a concise, measurable question relative to your teaching problem.

Sample SoTL questions by Kathleen McKinney p. 29

“Reading the literature on teaching and learning in your field and especially research related to your teaching problem is critical.”

McKinney. 2007. Enhancing Learning Through the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: The Challenges and Joys of Juggling

Databases• ERIC• EBSCO Academic Search Premier

Online SoTL Journals http://www.kingsborough.edu/faculty/kctl/fig_scholarshipjournal.html

Since SoTL studies involve collect data from human subjects, most SoTL studies will require IRB approval prior to the start of the project

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