Categories for Questions to Explore Incidents of Teaching at Its Best

Patricia O’Connell Killen, Ph.D.
Professor Emerita, Religion, Pacific Lutheran University

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NOTE: This schematic visually represents the listening and questioning strategy for work with teaching incidents in a way that goes more deeply into them, exploring their depths and hidden artistry and coherence. Such dimensions of an instructor’s work are too often not noticed and so not brought to consciousness. When recognized by an instructor the result tends to be greater clarity about and a release of energy for teaching, as well as a fuller sense of being part of a shared project with colleagues across an array of disciplines and professions.