Penn State recently started offering a course to their faculty on how to teach veterans. I’ve had the pleasure to teach and watch others teach veterans. They bring so much to the classroom, and enrich the community. Yet, teaching them warrants new tools and strategies. Here are a few resources to get you started.
If media treated teachers like sport stars
Key & Peele, setting the tone and stage for how media should portray the professional teacher.
Experts in leadership roles
” ‘In most sectors board of directors include many industry experts, and in higher education that’s not true. There are often one or two, if any, members of the boards who are higher education experts,’ said Merrill Schwartz, vice president of consulting at the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges. ‘It’s a lot to ask of members to understand the industry, and trustee education really is a leg up.’ “
New Push for Trustee Training by Kellie Woodhouse
We we cannot forget that education is a profession and a field unto itself. Education is no different than medicine: a field in which thousands spend their life in research, practicing, and review with the goal of improving the quality of life for all.
We must start treating it as a profession.