International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Volume 1, Number 2, 2007

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Invited Essay on SoTL

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Learning, Knowing, and Reflecting: Literacies for the 21st Century

The “aha” moments in life delight us. We suddenly gain an insight, experience a profound joy, or realize something important for the first time. A second grader provided for me a crucial “aha” moment about the purposes of education. As a regular part of their learning, students in this second grader’s school throughout the year collected evidence of their learning in portfolios, pausing periodically to reflect on and explain the contents of the portfolio. On this particular day the second graders were sharing their portfolios with other students, parents, and guests, including me.

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Bio

Barbara Cambridge
President, International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning;
National Council of Teachers of English
Alexandria, Virginia, USA
bcambridge@ncte.org

I am senior program officer for the National Council of Teachers of English and CASTL associate for the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Past president of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and commissioner for the Western Association of Schools and Colleges, I currently serve on the Boards of the Washington Internship Institute and the Teacher Education Accreditation Council.  I co-lead the Inter/National Coalition for Electronic Portfolio Research and serve as consulting editor for Change magazine, editor of the Journal of Teaching Writing, and am professor of English at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis. My latest publications include edited books on electronic portfolios for students, teachers, and institutions and on campus support for the scholarship of teaching and learning.

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