Monday Reading→ The Ideal Professor: Student Perceptions of Effective Instructor Practices, Attitudes and Skills

purpose: present valuable skills for educators to best appeal to their students learning and education

goal: to show other educators the perspectives of students so they can be better teachers for them

author:

audience:

• teachers often replicate the styles they've experienced or been taught

good teaching involves interweaving content knowledge, pedagogy skills, appreciation for multifaceted nature of students thinking

• student evals promote this sort of growth in teachers

"good teaching" fell into these categories

1. knowledge and presentation
2. personal qualities of professor
3. professional/instructional qualities

being treated respectfully/compassionately was the biggest thing of importance to students

pedagogy; the method of practicing teaching in an academic subject

8/20/2021 lecture:

• tensure prevents you from being fired for research (which can be problematic/controversial)
• professors are researchers

R1-highest level of research

→ some small liberal arts schools specialize in teaching professors rather than research professors