Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education
Date of this Version
2006
Document Type
Article
Citation
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development (2006) 24
doi: 10.3998/tia.17063888.0024.017
Abstract
First-year engineering students receive most of their teaching from instructors outside of engineering. As a result, these instructors are typically not a teaching community with a shared commitment to engineering student learning. Retention of engineering students is strongly tied to the quality of teaching, thus addressing collective teaching quality is important. This chapter describes the development of a carefully crafted, electronically distributed advice column on teaching developed by an interdisciplinary editorial team, written under the pseudonym Jonas Chalk. Surveys of Chalk Talk readers indicate that this is an effective means to promote teaching culture change.
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License: CC BY-NC-ND