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The recipients of the 2020-2021 President’s Associates Teaching Excellence Award reflect on their teaching — and what they have learned from their students, according to Diana Lee, Author at UT News.
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The 2020-2021 recipients of the President’s Associates Teaching Excellence Award strive not only to instruct and provide information for the semester but also to inspire their students for a lifetime. As William Butler Yeats said, “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
A year of adjusting to the pandemic and to online learning has been accompanied by many challenges, including social isolation, additional family responsibilities and the deaths of relatives and friends. But these seven professors have adapted. By actively engaging with their classrooms and sometimes greatly changing their approaches, they have expanded the possibilities of teaching.
Here are their reflections on the future of education.
Source: UT News | The University of Texas at Austin
