Week 4: Activity 2. The benefits of SoTL

The brief (2,200 word) research based chapter 'Synthesis of the Values and Benefits of SOTL' is from the book Doing the scholarship of teaching and learning in mathematics (Dewar & Bennett, 2015). The messages in the chapter are relevant to staff teaching in any discipline.

The online listserve Tomorrow’s Professor, which provides twice weekly posts on different elements of teaching, has reproduced the chapter online Links to an external site..

Skim the chapter. Do any of the topics (amnesia, fantasia, inertia) resonate for you? Think about one way in which you expect that being scholarly in your teaching or engaging in SOTL might be of benefit to you, either in terms of your practice or professionally.