Improving Teaching and Learning through Classroom Research

Boyer's scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) has finally reached the field of atmospheric sciences, albeit not yet fully embraced. As such, in order to facilitate such scholarship, the development of a resource structure is thus recommended. It has been implemented in some institutions like at the University of Wisconsin, in which they implemented the term teaching as research in promoting SoTL-like efforts to their science, technology, engineering, and mathematics faculty and graduate students. SoTL is not an educational research but rather a critical examination of one's teaching and student's learning in the atmospheric sciences classroom. A typical SoTL research will be an interdisciplinary effort between atmospheric scientists and education researchers. It is also about a critical examination of how atmospheric science concepts and applications are taught and how such pedagogy influences student learning and understanding.