Unearthing the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Self and Practice

• Main Author: Lorraine Gilpin
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Georgia Southern University 2007-07-01
• Series: International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
• Subjects: Peer observation; Peer feedback; Scholarship of teaching and learning; SoTL
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/ij-sotl/vol1/iss2/9

Bringing the principles and characteristics of the scholarship of teaching and learning into my university classroom has helped me support the development of teaching as scholarly activity for my students while cementing my own commitment in this regard. These students are preservice teachers, who have the opportunity to conduct peer observations and provide feedback to one another establishing a learning commons of sort. While engaged in an initial practicum experience, preservice elementary teachers observe and provide feedback on each other’s teaching. This paper will describe and analyze this peer observation and feedback activity as part of the cycle of the scholarship of teaching and learning. My engagement in the scholarship of teaching and learning has also stimulated further research in this area among my peers. Establishing praxis in the scholarship of teaching and learning is beneficial at all levels of teaching and learning.