Open Access19: Reflecting and Writing About Our Teaching
Author(s) -
Weisberg Mark
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
to improve the academy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2334-4822
DOI - 10.1002/j.2334-4822.2008.tb00515.x
Subject(s) - reading (process) , set (abstract data type) , space (punctuation) , mathematics education , pedagogy , psychology , journal writing , teaching method , computer science , linguistics , philosophy , programming language , operating system
Reflecting on what we are doing can help us become better teachers and better people; yet in our increasingly busy and stressful lives, how can we find the space and time? This chapter describes and exemplifies two strategies that can help us and our colleagues become more reflective about our teaching and about our vocation: the Teachers' Reading Circle, meeting for regular discussions of provocative texts about teaching and learning, and the Teachers' Writing Circle, using prompts and examples of colleagues' writing to set participants on an extended course of writing about their own teaching.