Teaching as Serious Intellectual Work

To start off the new year, I thought that I would share a brief editorial on teaching from the open access journal, InSight: A Journal of Scholarly Teaching entitled "Now is a Good Time to Recognize Teaching as Serious Intellectual Work”. The article was written by Dr. Dan Bernstein, Professor, Department of Psychology at the University of Kansas. One of the major points he shares is that …

"Relatively few institutions ask faculty members to fully express their voice through documentation of goals, assignments, learning activities, and reflection on the development of quality learning in their courses over time.”