In January 2023, I facilitated an equity-in-teaching workshop called “Demystifying Success” based on the principle that making explicit the “implicit norms and ambiguous processes that characterize college, such as how to be a ‘successful’ student,” will “give students access to the language of the institution and improve their chances for success” (CUE 2020). Participants developed a few brief artifacts designed to make explicit some disciplinary processes that are important in their courses.

To illustrate these artifacts, I created examples. Rather than using my discipline of literary study (which would be well covered by some English colleagues in the workshop), I made examples based on SoTL. I’m sharing these artifacts with a CC-BY-NC Creative Commons license. You may use each of these artifacts to make explicit some important elements of SoTL, and encourage participants to use it later on as they work on their own SoTL projects.

In my previous post, I shared a SoTL preconception check. Below, I identify and describe five key SoTL moves, or essential ways of knowing and doing, in a SoTL mindset.

Key Moves in a SoTL Mindset

This artifact articulates five key moves in a SoTL mindset. I developed the list as an explanatory follow-up to reinforce some of the characteristics of SoTL that emerge in discussing the preconception check.

Click the image to the right (or here) to access the document.

I’ll share the final artifact in a third blog post.