Center for Faculty Development & Nexus Learning
Jefferson Educator
Jefferson Educators represent teachers, researchers, leaders, and innovators with a passion for forward-thinking education.
Explore the Foundations of the Jefferson Educator, a self-paced, interactive learning experience to inform your understanding of the domains of the Jefferson Educator and the key practices that characterize our teaching community.
We are inspired by our learners, our disciplines, and our professional practices. We build experiences and programs that simultaneously champion and challenge our learners. We use research-based teaching practices to create learner-centered experiences. Regardless of environment, these experiences engage learners in collaborative and transdisciplinary thinking. We help learners transform instructional insights into solutions for authentic, real-world problems
Always willing to experiment with teaching strategies and practices, we develop frameworks for continual improvement that expand with each success and failure. We engage in critical self-reflection and model a growth mindset. In doing so, we develop forward-thinking, lifelong learners who think big and critically about the challenges of tomorrow.
Domains of Educational Practice
Center for Faculty Development & Nexus Learning
- Assessment for Learning – Defines learner success, evaluates learning outcomes, and provides timely, consistent feedback to improve student learning.
- Critical Self-Reflection – Engages in critical analysis of one’s self and one’s teaching practices to continuously improve learning experiences.
- Evidence-based Teaching – Employs educational practices based on best available evidence, rather than tradition or anecdote, to promote learner success.
- Innovation – Purposefully explores instructional strategies and tools from a variety of contexts to design and redesign educational experiences, energizing learning for one’s self and others.
- Learner-Centeredness – Implements teaching strategies that shift the focus of instruction to the learner, facilitating autonomy and success.
- Learning Design – Designs learning experiences aligned with learning goals to enhance learners’ knowledge, skills and attitudes. These experiences integrate practice and feedback for learners’ continued growth.
- Learning Environment Management – Facilitates a collaborative and inclusive community with awareness and consideration of the learning context, as well as the tools available to engage and support learners
- Professional Vitality – Continuously cultivates attitudes and skills that promote meaning in work, professional success, and personal fulfillment.
Jefferson Educators represent teachers, researchers, leaders, and innovators with a passion for forward-thinking education.