Goals and Guiding Principles
Program Goals
- Enhance Fellows’ knowledge of current educational theories, guiding principles, and practical techniques.
- Enhance Fellows’ skills as educators (i.e., lecturing, facilitating, evaluating, designing, planning, etc.).
- Enhance Fellows’ attitudes regarding:
- Their role as educational leaders and
- The importance of teaching and learning theory in achieving educational excellence.
- Their role as educational leaders and
- Enhance Fellows’ self-reflection in response to formal and informal feedback about their teaching.
Guiding Principles
Four principles guide the design of the Educational Scholars Fellowship Program:
- Fellowship activities rely upon existing theory and research.
Experience alone does not lead efficiently to expertise. Knowledge and use of established theoretical and empirical frameworks will improve practice and avoid "reinventing the wheel." - Fellowship activities are conducted primarily in small groups.
In the Educational Scholars Fellowship Program, fellows meet in small groups, not only to enhance learning of program content and skills, but to provide experience and practice in managing group learning situations. 
Fellowship activities promote meaningful exchange among fellows.
Fellows bring to the fellowship a vast store of experience and insight. These backgrounds are of primary importance. We expect Fellows to share their personal experiences and, in thoughtful discussion, root out misconceptions and refine attitudes.- Fellowship activities encourage self-reflection.
Reflection will serve to focus Fellows' insights so that assumptions and behaviors, initially hidden by habit and lack of attention, become explicit and open to discussion, observation, and modification.