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Tinkering with Teaching
- The Review of Higher Education
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 12, Number 1, Autumn 1988
- pp. 63-78
- 10.1353/rhe.1988.0004
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The improvement of teaching is a constant need in colleges and universities, but commitment, resources, and strategies devoted to the task rise and fall from time to time and place to place. To test the proposition that competent teachers are made, not born, the author examined approaches to teaching taken by twelve outstanding instructors. The results suggest the promise of persistent, individual effort based on reflective practice and incremental improvement.