What is my (Teaching) Identity? Taking Action to Embrace your Teaching Avatar as Part of Your True Professional Self

Title: What is my (Teaching) Identity? Taking Action to Embrace your Teaching Avatar as Part of Your True Professional Self

Short description:

When thinking about your teaching identify, is it part of who you are or is it some other version of yourself? When you talk about your teaching what stories do you construct? Do you contemplate how your interactions with learners lead to success or less than successful learning experiences? To excel at teaching, one must have a true sense of one’s teaching identity. This can be achieved through reflection.

Session Style/Format: Interactive Workshop

Takeaways

During this interactive workshop of hands-on activities, attendees will learn how to contemplate current teaching practices, discuss the connection between current practice and professional identify, and determine future steps to enhance one’s teaching.

Organization: Fully Formed but open to partnering with others

Contact Information

Jennifer Sharkey, Head of Information Use and Fluency, jsharke@ilstu.edu