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ERIC Number: EJ342748
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1986
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"A Wise but Lonely Wanderer": How Professors Avoid Getting Bored--And Boring.
Beidler, Peter G., Ed.
New Directions for Teaching and Learning, No. 28 (Distinguished Teachers on Effective Teaching) p63-74 Win 1986
The ten finalists for the Council for Advancement and Support of Education's annual Professor of the Year award discuss how they keep from being bored and boring in their instruction despite teaching the same subject matter each year, and how they maintain the enthusiasm they had on entering the profession. (MSE)
Descriptors: Attention Control, College Faculty, College Instruction, Higher Education, Interests, Novelty (Stimulus Dimension), Redundancy, Teacher Attitudes
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Boredom; Council for Advancement and Support of Education; Faculty Vitality; Teacher of the Year