Encouraging the Campus Focus on Learning and Teaching.

Autor/in	North, Joan
Titel	Encouraging the Campus Focus on Learning and Teaching.
Quelle	(1996), (18 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Tabellen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; College Instruction; Educational Responsibility; Faculty Publishing; Faculty Workload; Higher Education; Institutional Role; Role of Education; Scholarship; Self Evaluation (Groups); Teacher Effectiveness; Teacher Responsibility; Teacher Role + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hochschullehre; Erziehungsverantwortung; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Bildungsauftrag; Scholarships; Stipendium; Self evaluation; Group; Groups; Selbstevaluation; Gruppe (Soz); Effectiveness of teaching; Instructional effectiveness; Lehrerleistung; Unterrichtserfolg; Lehrverpflichtung; Lehrerrolle
Abstract	Institutions of higher education are moving away from their primary focus on teaching, in part because teaching has become more a private act less visible than other faculty responsibilities such as scholarship, and in part due to the perception that teaching is not very difficult, that it is simply telling the students what you know. However, the process of teaching is much more complex and demanding, and requires making certain that learning has occurred. Another trend is the shift from concerned local communities to global economic centers. External success has replaced internal achievement. The shift from cooperation to competition fits with the rise of importance of scholarship over teaching in the past 20 years, as faculty spend less time helping individual students grow and mature and more time competing with colleagues in the world arena of scholarship. Visibility for teaching as the central activity requires a conscious focus by top level administrators. A campus that is firmly focused on teaching and learning is one in which everyone talks about learning, celebrates learning successes, and encourages teaching experimentation. The importance of teaching must also be shown by spending as much money on teaching and its development as on scholarship and its development. A checklist to evaluate a campus' focus on teaching/learning is attached. (JLS)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2004/1/01