Article: Scholarship of Teaching
The Scholarship of Teaching: What’s the Problem?
Laura’s
Recommendation
This foundational 1998 article by Randy Bass continues to serve as a powerful model for the value of reflection in teaching, learning, and scholarship. I recommend it to my colleagues who are new to teaching and/or SoTL.
Enabling teachers not only "to know these things" but to share them in serious ways is what a scholarship of teaching is about. Ultimately, the measure of success for the scholarship of teaching movement will not be the degree to which it can--by focusing on the "many layers of practice" at the heart of teaching --discover solutions worth implementing, but the extent to which it is successful in discovering problems worth pursuing.
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