Collecting Wisdom at Great Teacher Retreat

Based on the premises that teachers learn teaching best from one another, a group of Southwestern Community College instructors recently took part in a three-day professional development workshop March 23-25. David Gottshall, founder of the Great Teacher Movement, conducted the workshop, along with SCC facilitators Rudy Beharrysingh, Peter Buck, Linda Dyke and Laura Pennington. Gottshall incorporated creative exercises by mixing teachers of diverse teaching fields, experience levels and interests. From left, Bob Harrison, Ron Poor and Wanda Morris were among the SCC faculty members taking part in the workshop held at the Kanuga Conference Center in Hendersonville. The Great Teacher Movement is a grass-roots faculty movement focusing on performance in the classroom and on the nature of the great teacher. The emphasis is on the art of teaching itself, rather than on the teaching of specific disciplines, according to Gottshall who said, “The collective wisdom, experience and creativity of any group of practicing educators far surpasses that of the individual expert.”

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