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Professors Aren’t Good at Sharing Their Classroom Practices. Teaching Portfolios Might Help.

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But the assistant professor of history at California State University at East Bay wanted something less drastic than giving up on live lectures entirely. Looking through a collection of teaching portfolios by her colleagues helped reassure her that she could redesign her course while preserving what worked about the classroom experience.

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Why U. of Michigan’s President Says Universities Should Work to Transform Teaching

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It’s not enough to install a few “smart classrooms”—today’s new approaches go deeper, often requiring professors to change the way they teach. Last year, it launched a major campus-wide effort to encourage a culture of continual improvement in teaching. I was always a person that learned great sitting in a lecture.

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