What Teaching Looks Like examines photography as an intriguing approach for engaging faculty, students, and staff in the work of pedagogical transformation, creating community around that effort, and taking active learning further into the mainstream.

What Teaching Looks Like: Higher Education through Photographs challenges reader’s conceptions of teaching by offering a unique perspective on daily teaching practices in higher education across the United States of America. This captivating and insightful book presents a rare opportunity for readers to see teaching in action, with people at its heart, and reflect upon what this means for them and the sector at large… By making the book freely available and offering extension resources, the authors demonstrate a commitment to deep learning through reflection and the sharing of knowledge, values that lie at the heart of higher education.

What Teaching Looks Like: Higher Education through Photographs is unlike any other book on higher education that I have ever read. The work is visually arresting, extremely engaging, and profound. That’s a rare combination… I encourage you to read it and to give its questions your consideration. I’d wager that you might see what goes in the classroom in different ways. 

IT IS AMAZING. The pictures are fantastic and the content really drives home so much about what I love about teaching. This is a MUST READ. For all of you who love higher ed, look at it and, likely, as I did, see yourself or the fantastic educators and learners you know, in those photos.

Such a powerful way to document what’s happening in the classroom and to drive change!

Horii … and Springborg … deliver a documentary-photography project that makes vividly real effective, engaged teaching. Anyone interested in better teaching can see, and not just think abstractly about, the human interactions that enliven the class setting: the magic of in-person learning.

The book is a fascinating look at classroom and student life through a photographer’s lens. More than that, it is meant to inspire reflection and conversation on how to improve both teaching practices and student support services.