Teacher-Scholar Lecture and Reception Featuring Professor Steve Iona

Teaching is both a science and an art. While one can teach science, and one can teach art, can one teach teaching? 

In his talk entitled, “Can you Teach Teaching?,” Professor Steve Iona, Department of Physics and Astronomy, explores characteristics of good teachers and good teaching. The questions of who could be a teacher, what teachers need to know, and what teachers need to be able to do to be good teachers, are essential for teacher-scholars. Exploring these questions helps us understand our own teaching and how to advance that practice. In his talk, Professor Iona examines how faculty can validate themselves as a teachers and support the claim that they are better teachers now than they were previously. As we explore these topics together, Professor Iona will help us to consider the phrase, “We teach who we are.”