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What’s Your Teaching Persona?

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From a dictionary: per·so·na, pərˈsōnə/ noun persona; plural noun: personae; plural noun: personas the aspect of someone's character that is presented to or perceived by others. "her public persona": synonyms: image, face, public face, character, personality, identify, self From the writings of university teachers: “…in addition to having a theory and a subject, all professors develop a persona, a public teaching self which may be either an exaggeration or an evasion of our private self.” (Elaine Showalter, p. 38).

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