Balancing Act for Faculty?

Balancing Act for Faculty?

by Elizabeth Wallace -
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Welcome to the discussion forum on the text for the readers' group gathering of April 26th, 2007, in the Halpern Centre at Simon Fraser University.

Huber surfaces the problem that faculty members in every research university face: the challenge of juggling the demands of research and teaching. She provides insights into how those demands are managed, by introducing four case studies. The stories tell of professors who have made a scholarly study of their own teaching in psychology, chemistry, engineering and literature.

As you read the case studies, and Huber's interlaced chapters on the nature of the scholarship of teaching and learning, which of the comments and experiences resonate for you as you think about your own teaching?  Do the strategies used by the four professors parallel any of your own approaches to studying your own teaching? What ideas are you taking away from the text?