Top SoTL Motivators

A response to the Engage with SoTL Activity
created by Joanna MacDougall (@Joanna MacDougall)

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The top SoTL motivators I have identified include:
1) better student outcomes – I tend to think more specifically about improved student competence, confidence and motivation

2)increased reflection on teaching and learning among colleagues

3) stronger overall faculty that values teaching and learning

4) promotion of new networks among faculty

My experience in post-secondary as a student and as an educator has left me with the impression that many faculty are hired first because they are the SME and often, not particularly interested in the scholarship of teaching and learning. This concept of SoTL brings the importance of student outcomes back to the classroom. I like framing teaching and learning as “thinking versus learning”….Thinking critically and applying learning as the main outcome.

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