The Challenges and Joys of Juggling There has been growing demandfor workshops and materials to help those in higher educationconduct and use the scholarship of teaching and learning. This bookoffers advice on how to do, share, and apply SoTL work to improvestudent learning and development. Written for college-level facultymembers as well as faculty developers, administrators, academicstaff, and graduate students, this book will also helpundergraduate students collaborating with faculty on SoTL projects.Though targeted at those new to the field of SoTL, more seasonedSoTL researchers and those attempting to support SoTL efforts willfind the book valuable. It can be used as an individual reading, ashared reading in SoTL writing circles, a resource in workshops onSoTL, and a text in seminars on teaching. Contents include:
* Defining SoTL
* The functions, value, rewards, and standards for SoTL work
* Working with colleagues, involving students, writing grants,integrating SoTL into your professional life, and finding usefulresources
* Practical and ethical issues associated with SoTL work
* Making your SoTL public and documenting your work
* The status of SoTL in disciplinary and institutional
contexts
* Applying the goals of SoTL to enhance student
learning and development.
Kathleen McKinney
Bildungswesen Education Hochschulen / Lehren u. Lernen Teaching & Learning (Higher Education)
"If your goal is to improve your classroom teaching...look nofurther than these two books." (Teaching Theology andReligion, September 2008)
"This book offers a guide to the scholarship of teaching andlearning for faculty, faculty development, administrators, andgraduate students." (Journal of Continuing Higher Education,Fall 2007)
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