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“The Personal Qualities of Teaching: What Teachers Do Cannot be Distinguished from Who They Are”

The Wabash Center

Author
Banner, James M. Jr., and Harold C. Cannon
Publisher
Change Nov/Dec (1997): 40-43
Discusses the importance of teacher's character in learning and teaching. Reasons for doubting the validity of widespread assertions of faculty members' malfeasance and neglect of their students; Three dimensions of teaching; Qualities that make for effective teaching; Initiative coming from the individual faculty members themselves and not from the administration.