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When we teach, our actions as teachers have the potential not only to fulfill our responsibility to students and society but also to give us the deep joy that comes when we do something important, well.
There is growing evidence that although college-level teaching is extremely important in today's world, we are not doing a very good job of educating our students. In the presentation I examine our traditional responses-and suggest alternative responses-to four central issues of teaching: WHAT we teach, HOW we teach, how we GEAR UP as teachers, and WHO we are as educators. Alternate responses include ideas from “Creating Significant Learning Experiences: An Integrated Approach to Designing College Courses”
L. Dee Fink is a nationally recognized expert on college teaching and faculty development. After receiving his doctorate from the University of Chicago in 1976, he accepted a faculty position at the University of Oklahoma. In 1979 he founded the Instructional Development Program at the University of Oklahoma and served as its director until his retirement in May 2005. He was president of the Professional and Organizational Development (POD) Network in Higher Education (2004-2005), the primary professional organization for faculty developers. At the present time he works as a national consultant in higher education. He is the author of Creating Significant Learning Experiences: An Integrated Approach to Designing College Courses (Jossey-Bass, 2003) and co-editor of Team-Based Learning: A Transformative Use of Small Groups in College Teaching (Stylus, 2004).
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