Using Journaling to Inspire Group Reflection on Teaching

Faculty can learn so much about teaching from each other. The challenge is finding ways to start and sustain conversations between faculty about teaching. This is the story of how journaling became the centerpiece of an unlikely but highly impactful teaching support group involving a math professor, a philosophy professor, and an exercise science professor.

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