Promoting Excellent Teaching Is Harder than You'd Think. A Note from an Outside Observer of the Roles and Rewards Initiative.

Gibbs, Graham

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Publication Date: 1995

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Promoting Excellent Teaching Is Harder than You'd Think. A Note from an Outside Observer of the Roles and Rewards Initiative.

Gibbs, Graham

Change, v27 n3 p16-20 May-Jun 1995

Seven suggestions are offered for enhancing the quality of college and university instruction, based on British experience: (1) define excellent teaching; (2) distinguish competence from excellence; (3) weight teaching in balance with research and service; (4) increase teacher sophistication; (5) promote excellent teaching, not just excellent teachers; (6) incorporate promotion; and (7) use incentives. (MSE)

Descriptors: College Faculty, College Instruction, Competence, Educational Quality, Excellence in Education, Faculty Development, Faculty Promotion, Faculty Workload, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Incentives, Instructional Improvement, Personnel Policy, Rewards

Publication Type: Opinion Papers; Reports - Evaluative; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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