Symposium: Better teaching through science: incorporating the scholarship of teaching & learning

The Scholarship of Teaching and Learn-ing, also referred to as SOTL, provides a framework for instructors to evaluate student learning and use evi-dence to determine pedagogical changes in the class-room. Engagement in SOTL challenges scholars to ask questions about their teaching practices and share with a larger community of practice. Examples of this include manuscript submissions to peer-reviewed jour-nals, presenting abstracts at conferences, and other outlets that allow scholars to disseminate their find-ings. SOTL practices can be applied within an individ-ual classroom or across a curriculum. Additionally, the promotion and tenure process at many institutions of higher education are highly recommending that faculty demonstrate impact on student learning. This sympo-sium, presented at the 2022 Poultry Science Associa-tion Annual Meeting, highlighted best practices in SOTL, implementation of SOTL programming, and discussed using SOTL as a tool to evaluate teaching effectiveness. Poultry and animal science educators shared their experiences with implementing SOTL in their classroom and the benefits to students. From this symposium, we can conclude that there are multiple ways to document teaching excellence and conduct SOTL projects. This is of interest to educators imple-menting scholarly teaching in their classrooms.