This guide, along with the Center for Teaching and Learning, are City
College initiatives which aim to enhance the faculty's perception of teaching
as a key component of their professional role. Among the beneficial consequences
we anticipate from increased emphasis on teaching are greatly improved student
learning and motivation and creation of an energized community of teacher-scholars
who support each others' innovations in the classroom. Such consequences,
we believe, are essential for readying City College, as a public institution,
for the educational tasks of the twenty-first century.
This guide exists because a number of faculty, staff, and administrators
at the College, sharing a vision of a college curriculum revitalized by
its faculty, gave generously of their summer hours to write the sections
which follow. Their hope and ours is that their ideas will serve as an
invitation to you to use the writers as resources as you reconsider and
refine your own teaching work. Both for their past contributions and future
commitment, we are very grateful.
We are also indebted to the staff of the Center for Teaching and Learning
and the Office of Academic Affairs, particularly Jason von Zerneck, who,
through countless hours at the computer, transformed a stack of very rough
drafts into this finished product.
Creation of this guide was supported by the Institution-Wide Reform Initiative
at the College, a project funded by the NSF at City College, early in 1997.
The overall spirit of this project stresses the concept of a "learning
community," with the Teaching Guide as a first collaborative product.
We encourage you to join with us in creating the 1998 edition of this guide
and welcome your comments and contributions.
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