Professor Joe Hoyle (University of Richmond) is the plenary speaker at the AACSB Faculty Conference on Learning in Orlando this week. Last September, he was named by BusinessWeek as one of 22 favorite undergraduate business professors in the country. He shares the following thoughts on teaching:
"I am a big believer that college teaching is quite good today across the country but can always improve. After 36 years in the classroom, I still believe that a career stays fun as long as a person continues to grow and get better. My personal goal is to get 5 percent better each year as a teacher. That is one of the reasons I love participating in conferences like this at Orlando: the conversation helps me as much-if not more-than anyone in the audience. In fact, my favorite quote about teaching was sent to me last year by a colleague in England:
'Teaching does not come from years of doing it. It actually comes from thinking about it.'
Teaching is serious business...<students> deserve nothing less than an excellent education, an academic experience that challenges them to excel from their first day to their last. Faculty members have a responsibility to the world to coax the very best from their students because they will certainly become the next generation of leaders. Where they go from here, what they accomplish, how they impact the world, depends in large part on how much we are able to push and nurture their development."
I couldn't agree more and am looking forward to collaborating with Professor Hoyle in facilitating a new workshop on teaching in the future. In the meantime, he shares some great tips on teaching here which you can download for free.
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