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

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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. Thanks to that requirement, the Cal State system has built a library that has grown to more than 200 teaching portfolios.

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

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I learned much better having someone explain something to me and take me through the thinking, than I do reading a book. They barely go to lecture at all, and they absorb tremendous amounts of material from reading a book or from a media presentation. For a lot of people, it's just the opposite.

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