February 20-24, 2023 is UTSA’s inaugural Celebrate Teaching Week! Hosted by the Academy of Distinguished Teaching Scholars, celebrate the exceptional teachers that make our top tier university a place where students thrive.

Join us for an inspiring and insightful talk by one of UT System’s most prestigious teaching scholars. Free and open to all.

Faculty may include this event as professional development in Digital Measures.

Strategic Confusion and the Joy of Accomplishment
Great teachers are skillful experience-creators. Although it’s certainly necessary at times for teachers to explain and demonstrate, our students learn most when they engage in activities that ask them to interpret, reason, write, and solve problems, all of which can lead to students uncovering and working through gaps in their understanding. Designing tasks that illuminate these gaps and providing strategic opportunities for productive muddling are what great teaching and effective learning are all about.

Bob Duke is the Marlene and Morton Meyerson Centennial Professor and Head of Music and Human Learning at The University of Texas at Austin, where he is a University of Texas and University of Texas System Distinguished Teaching Professor, Elizabeth Shatto Massey Distinguished Fellow in Teacher Education, and Director of the Center for Music Learning. He is also a clinical professor in the Dell Medical School at The University of Texas and was the founding director of the psychology of learning program at the Colburn Conservatory of Music in Los Angeles. Learn more

Event co-sponsored by the division of Student Success.