Teaching Well: Do You Have to Be Schizophrenic?

Most faculty are neither sufficiently skilled nor psychologically disposed both to perform competently and to find rewards in the wide range of tasks presently required of them. Taking the teaching role alone, this paper disaggregates the "knowledge transfer" subrole into four technologies with associated sets of skills and personality dispositions, then argues for assigning the subrole tasks to teams of specialized faculty, each with skills and dispositions matched to the technology.