Teaching

Wilhelm Busch

Some of the fundamental questions about teaching that relate to our purpose of improving curriculum are the following: What is teaching? What are a variety of methods of teaching? Are some methods better than others (leaving the definition of "better" open)? Is teaching the same thing as a delivery system? What is academic freedom (freedom of teaching)? What kinds of conflicts may occur between a systems engineered curriculum and freedom of teaching? How do we create a teaching community whose goal is to enhance learning? Quick view: ten theories on instruction Quick view: 50 theories of instruction and learning

Resources for Action Research (Univ. of Colorado at Denver)

An Introduction to Action Research by Dorothy Gabel

Networks: An Online Journal for Teacher Research

The Online Conference on "The Reflective Practitioner" on ACTlist (March 1 -- April 3, 1998)

Professional Development Using Action Research by Cliff Bunning

The Future of the Community College: A Faculty Perspective (The Academic Senate for California Community Colleges)
(This is a strong position paper against the extreme technologizing of education.)

On Spirituality and Teaching by Ignazio L. Goetz

Intelligence and Passion in Teaching: Ignazio Goetz on Spirituality by H. A. Alexander (response)

Teaching Methods for Learning Outcomes by Tom Bourner

AAUP Report on Academic Freedom and Electronic Communications

AAUP 1940 Statement of Principles on Academic Freedom and Tenure with 1970 Interpretive Comments

Towards a New Generation Education: An Application of Systems Engineering Principles by Mark Ottenberg / Andreas Asbjornsen

On Becoming a Teacher: May Sarton's The Small Room by Michael Katz

Good Stories and Moral Understanding by Barbara J. Thayer-Bacon (response)

Kindness as a Teaching Ethic by Steve Broidy

Dewey on Method/s by Abarbara S. Stengeluthor

Dewey on the Virtues of Method/s by Jim Garrison (response)

Teaching in a Different Sense: Alcott's Marmee by Susan Laird

Enriching Our Conception of Teaching by Stephen Preskill (response)

Teaching, Readiness to Learn, and Cultural Context: A Response to Teachers of My Youth by Daniel Pekarsky

Worlds Apart by Iris M. Yob

Responses to Professors Pekarsky, Yob, and Brown by Israel Scheffler (response)

Knowledge and Action in Classroom Practice: A Dialogical Approach by Stanton Wortham

On Teacher Knowledge: A Return to Shulman by Barbara J. Duncan (response)

Out of the Kindness of Our Hearts or On the Gendered Hazards of Being Kind by Barbara Applebaum

Good Stories and Moral Understanding by Barbara J. Thayer-Bacon

Difference, Authority, and the Teacher-Student Relationship by Clive Beck

Teacher Authority and Teaching for Liberation by Emily Robertson (response)

Is There a "Knowledge Base for Teaching?" by Robert H. Ennis

Two Problems with Teacher Knowledge by Robert E. Orton (response)

For further information, contact Frank Edler fedler@mccneb.edu or John McGaha jmcgaha@mccneb.edu