Abstract:
Boyer coined the term "scholarship of teaching", but the term has
become ambiguous. In this paper, I nominate my own three
categorizations of university computing educators: amateurs,
students, and researchers. Amateurs may be excellent with
students, but they do not routinely engage in dialog with other
teachers about teaching. Students embrace the general theories of
education, and write papers about how they have reconstructed
their teaching in accordance with those theories. Researchers are
engaged in the development and dissemination of a discipline specific
pedagogy. Researchers do not reject the general
education literature, but neither do they simply accept it. Instead,
that literature offers theories that may or may not be verified in
the laboratory of their own class room. They are involved in a
discipline-based research community that transcends institutional
boundaries. I illustrate these categories with examples from my
own teaching, as an amateur, student, and researcher.
