Teaching and Learning SoTL: Preparing Future Faculty in a Pedagogy Course

Abstract

The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) offers a way of equipping graduate students for monitoring, assessing, and reflecting on their teaching and their students' learning in higher education. After reviewing recent literature about the ways graduate students prepare for teaching, this essay presents an example of one way SoTL can inform teaching and teacher education as part of a graduate seminar. When a SoTL approach was integrated into a course about teaching in higher education, the course itself became a faculty-graduate student collaborative project. This essay demonstrates the potent circularity of the reflective teaching practice that drives the course and inspires similar practice in its students, which in turn informs subsequent iterations of the course.

Bridging the Divide: Leveraging the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning for Quality Enhancement

“…Since then, there has been growing recognition that the heart of the SoTL is the critical inquiry and examination of how teaching can best support learning. This recognition of, attention to, and visibility of SoTL has been supported by SoTLrelated conferences, professional educational journals in almost every discipline, and programs for both faculty members and graduate students (Auten & Twigg, 2015).…”

Participant perceptions of the faculty development Educational Research Series

“…The field of SoTL promotes a form of educational research that follows the stages of an action research process (Sagor, 2000) with a focus on academic development for improving teaching practice and making findings public within a peer review process (Geertsema, 2016). At the heart of the work of this field, the goal of SoTL is to enhance student learning, and this enthusiasm has crossed disciplinary boundaries as evidenced by numerous professional journals and faculty programming dedicated to teaching scholarship (Auten & Twigg, 2015). Our university is attempting to build capacity in educational research as a means to evaluate teaching in order to improve student learning.…”

State Examination as a Way to Assess Postgraduate Students’ Teaching Competencies

“…Проблема повышения качества педагогической подготовки аспирантов в последние годы является предметом исследований и дискуссий как в России [4][5][6][7], так и за рубежом [8][9][10][11]. Согласно последним данным, представленным в отчёте Ассоциации европейских университетов [11], задача формирования соответствующих компетенций находится в центре внимания 45% университетов Европы (34% считают их важными и 11% -чрезвычайно важными).…”