Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Community of Practice

The goal of our “Converting Your Teaching Into Scholarship” series is to create a community of practice at Jacobs around publishing teaching scholarship. In each session, we will focus on the different steps necessary to convert teaching activities into publishable scholarship. 

Alan J. Lesse, MD, associate dean for medical curriculum, addresses a lecture hall full of students.

Alan J. Lesse, MD, associate dean for medical curriculum, welcomes IMC516 students to class.

Upcoming Sessions

April 29: Identifying Topics & Learning from a Panel of Jacobs Teaching Scholars

In this session, participants will review standards of teaching scholarship to identify a potential teaching topic that they could publish. We will  also be inspired by a panel of Jacobs faculty who have published on teaching topics.

Literature and Resources

Boyer, Ernest L. Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities of the Professoriate. Expanded Edition. Edited by Drew Moser, et. al. Jossey-Bass, 2015. 

Glassick, Charles E. “Boyer’s Expanded Definitions of Scholarship, the Standards for Assessing Scholarship, and the Elusiveness of the Scholarship of Teaching.” Academic Medicine, vol. 75, no. 9, Sept. 2000. pp. 877-880.

Contact Us

Questions about this page can be referred to Alice Villaseñor, PhD, faculty development programs lead (alicevil@buffalo.edu)