It was a pleasure working with the faculty at Westchester Community College. The Center for Teaching and Scholarship is providing excellent, rigorous professional development for their faculty. I was impressed by the commitment, excitement and camaraderie of the faculty during the workshop. It is rare that instructors at higher education institutions come together and discuss individual problems and issues in their classrooms. When the barriers of the “my 4 walls” paradigm are challenged and broken, everyone benefits. As all educators examine their practice and use strategies such as action research to investigate questions in their classrooms, the benefits are far-reaching. The individual instructor grows through newly acquired insight, students reap the rewards of better instruction, and fellow faculty share in the communal growth of enriched discussions, modeling and rich questions. I applaud the efforts of the WWC Center for Teaching and Scholarship and encourage other institutions to create and implement a similar model of professional development.
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