Effective teaching requires continual reflection about teaching techniques, strategies, and materials....[Many] activities can be done on your own, but all are more effective when undertaken with a fellow teacher.
Article Excerpt (from The Teaching Professor):
Effective teaching requires continual reflection about teaching techniques, strategies, and materials. This necessary reflection can be prompted by attending teaching conferences, classroom observation, formal and informal assessment, and reading research on teaching and learning. All these activities can be done on your own, but all are more effective when undertaken with a fellow teacher. However, few of us find the time to sit down with colleagues and thoughtfully discuss teaching. Instead, too often we only participate in a once-a-semester teaching in-service activity.
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