You probably arrived at college teaching via your nerdy love of a topic, and then maybe found yourself caring more than you ever thought you could about your students’ learning, after so many years of caring almost exclusively about your subject and your research. Making that realization and becoming an effective college teacher isn’t easy, and the longer I’ve been teaching, the more I realize how much I still have to learn—will always have to keep learning—about teaching.45 That’s practicing, and the practice of, effective teaching and learning.
