Teaching Excellence: Reflecting on What Makes Great Professors Great

Abstract

This short case presents two typical conversations surrounding the issue of classroom teaching excellence. One conversation is from a student perspective, and the other is from a faculty perspective. Both conversations take the reader to the point of articulating, based on their own college experience, the attributes possessed by the great professors they have had in class or that they have observed. Excerpt UVA-PHA-0063 Jun. 23, 2011 TEACHING EXCELLENCE: WHAT MAKES GREAT PROFESSORS GREAT The Student Conversation In the student center . . .