The talk ranges from citations and addresses, the kind of useful facts and access keys friends scribble out for each other, to anecdotes that make a point, to serious arguments for a particular point of view, to familiar essays in which a faculty member distills wisdom from experience. I saw a banquet table, and I wanted to fill it with the full range of rhetorical nourishment. I would offer the things a good host offers in the way of guiding and contributing to the conversation, but I would invite as many faculty as I could to speak up and contribute their ideas. In its first five years, The National Teaching and Learning Forum has achieved critical acclaim and popular success with this approach. The contents range as widely as good conversation.
Topics embrace a wide diversity of cross-disciplinary concerns.
The Forum's pages cover the latest findings of cognitive psychology on attention span and their practical implications for teaching. They talk about seeing the relevance of Dante, Shakespeare and Milton to the lives of today's more gender-aware and ethnically diverse students. They are open to a variety of faculty viewpoints, each of which offers the gift of insight to colleagues both in this country and abroad. The National Teaching and Learning Forum has quite a number of foreign subscribers. Perhaps that is because the publication has taken an increasingly international perspective.