Everybody involved in teaching has questions about the success of their practice. We deal with some of the questions informally all the time. In other cases, we seek to formalize our enquiry by doing research, and that is what the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) is about. After reviewing the Key Characteristics of the SoTL video (also below), think about which experiences are similar to your own.
To Do:
Identify 3 key characteristics of SoTL that resonate with your professional experience and practice.
Add your name and three keys to the bottom of the editable document (Keys of SoTL Google Doc).
Compare your SoTL keys to ones listed by your colleagues in Keys of SoTL Google Doc. Add comments to other responses that strongly align with yours in the document.
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Upload a screenshot of your contributions to the google doc as evidence of completion.
Optional: Include any additional ideas you gain from the ones that your colleagues identified.
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This video features several educators defining SoTL in the context of their own professional practice. The educators in this video express multiple experiences about SoTL.
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My Three Keys of SoTL. (The shared doc would not open for me, but I have uploaded a screen shot and the three keys here as a reply) Asking Interesting Questions about Learning and Teaching– As a professor I am always curious. Curious about my students’ learning and curious about how to improve my teaching more… »
Choosing only three key characteristics of SoTL was a challenge; I found many to resonate with my current teaching practice as well as where I imagine my approach to be in the future. The attached image presents my attempt to narrow down my choices to three, and provides a brief explanation for each.
Tania Killian Keys Always question Try new things-even if you are not sure how they will work Reflect and reinvent and retry Motivations Better student outcomes Increase my passion/excitement for teaching, Building networks/pathways
Inquiry – Ask questions and be curious Use the right methodology to gather data Analysis of the data to identify the effectiveness of teaching & learning
Keys A critical look at opportunities for improvement or understanding; what is the question you want to know the answer to or the problem you want to solve? Developing an individualized methodology for solving the question Exploring the concept from multiple perspectives (students, faculty, colleagues, your PLN)
This was interesting. I like the concept behind this approach to teaching… to approach it from a scholarly perspective and to apply an inquiry to one’s practice.
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