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“Take a Look!” offers recently read and recommended articles of interest or resources related to SoTL (the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning) and/or COPs (Communities of Practice) from MCC’s CASTL Group.   We hope you find these articles stimulating!

"What Makes Great Teachers Great?"*
by Ken Bain was published in the April 9, 2004 issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education.

This article is very well written, "inspiring", if you will, and talks about all the things Carnegie stresses:  intellectual engagement of the students,  using a variety of pedagogies, and demanding higher order skills (beyond memorization) at every class.   It amplifies the idea of stating a problem or question to actively engage students right away and working the subject content into their investigation of the problem (like case studies, PBL, even interactive lecture) and it gives some very interesting examples from a variety of disciplines of what some faculty have used as opening questions.    Along with the notion of a "scholarship of teaching", it  emphasizes ideas like starting with the students, not the subject matter, and it concludes with a summary paragraph about what a teacher is/does.

*The version of this article is made available through the California State Polytechnic University Pomona's Faculty Center for Professional Development.

 

Visible Knowledge Project at Georgetown University
This site would be of interest to those teaching both online courses and hybrid courses, or using the web in any way, in fact.  Faculty are looking at developing new kinds of student assignments, at examining intermediate thinking processes of students (as compared with experts), and at assessing  the impact of new technologies on student learning. 

 

*Thanks to Joan Kleinman for her contributions to this Take A Look!

 

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