In addition, Dr. Aloia supervises fieldwork courses and activities for both credential and RSP candidates. A Reexamination , Scholarship is conceptualized within the parameters of discover, integration, application and teaching. No tenets in the academy are held in higher regard than the commitment to knowledge for its own sake, to freedom of inquiry and to following, in a disciplined fashion, an investigation wherever it may lead. When professional schools affiliated with universities, they lessened their commitment to applied work even though the original purpose of such schools was to connect theory and practice. To be considered scholarship, service activities must be tied directly to one's special field of knowledge and relate to, and flow directly out of, this professional activity.
Great teachers create a common ground of intellectual commitment.
They stimulate active, not passive, learning and encourage students to be critical, creative thinkers, with the capacity to go on learning after their college days are over.