Becoming a Better College Teacher (If You're Lucky)

Becoming an Authentic Community College Teacher

In this paper, a study of how adult vocational educators develop authenticity in their teaching within a Canadian community college context is presented. Six participants from different disciplines, five of whom were relatively new teachers, and one of whom had considerable experience, were interviewed three times over two years. With the assistance of the participants, narratives were construc...

Becoming Invisible: Elder as Teacher

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Better Be Lucky than Good: Exceeding Expectations in MDP Evaluation

We introduce the MDP-Evaluation Stopping Problem, the optimization problem faced by participants of the International Probabilistic Planning Competition 2014 that focus on their own performance. It can be constructed as a meta-MDP where actions correspond to the application of a policy on a base-MDP, which is intractable in practice. Our theoretical analysis reveals that there are tractable spe...

Transforming Teaching Practice: becoming the critically re ̄ective teacher

This article proposes a framework for conceptualizing developing as a critically re ̄ective teacher. The author posits that critical re ̄ection is the distinguishing attribute of re ̄ective practitioners. The term critical re ̄ection as developed here merges critical inquiry, the conscious consideration of the ethical implications and consequences of teaching practice, with self-re ̄ection, deep exa...

Research in Support of the College Teacher