#Teaching

On May 15, 2014 I moved back to the US from Laos. I’ve been feeling super nostalgic recently so over the next week I’ll be sharing some highlights from my
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So yesterday I tweeted my frustration at online learning, asking if any of you had suggestions for online tutoring. Here’s a bit of an explanation of what’s going on. /1
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I recently taught a hybrid online/offline MBA class. I have some thoughts about online versus offline, and about teaching in-person during a pandemic. I’ve also assembled a few pithy “lessons
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NEW STORY ALERT FROM ME: In 1919, a group of Black Floridians in Jacksonville held these secret educational meetings, teaching local Black residents how to register to vote and pay
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Right. I'm going to need some extra work as my employer's pot for generously topping-up furlough pay has run dry & mortgage etc won't take that. I'll put some work
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Teaching my rat to drive Update: Don’t rat and drive folks
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We are not in disagreement on the importance of phonemic awareness, and using 44 phonemes. As we’ve discussed before, we differ oh whether the phoneme-grapheme correspondences should be taught all
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Here's what they get wrong abt @AOC :I've been teaching for 30 yrs. Most of that was university teaching. There is no more focused, prepared, poised, or hardworking student than
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Props to @PhilBecknerfor dropping some golden nuggets on @Key5CoachingCourtside. I have watched a bunch of virtual clinics the past 3 weeks and I got more out of his than most
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New article alert! A new experiment by Kerry Chávez & @KMWMitchell that varies perceived gender & race/ethnicity of instructor finds that women & POC get lower teaching eval. Here is
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Fantastic to see geographers building on (stealing? ) ideas from Teaching History...If you happen to have a subscription to to Teaching Geography, Sarah’s article about Tim Marshall’s ‘Prisoners of Geography’
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1 thing I have heard a lot of the years in teaching, about adults & children, is the accusation of “attention seeking”. I want everyone to stop & think. WHY?
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Seeing how many higher ed educators have responded to this shift in direction by overloading their students with work + little/no instructional supports has been so jarring. Part of good
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One of the chants on a #UCUstrike picket is “our working conditions - your learning conditions!” This is true of lots of teaching: if staff are on precarious contracts, not
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After nearly a year of running workshops online, I've decided that I won't be going back to the old way of doing things. Running classes online can be WAY better
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1) Catching up on comics on this lazy Sunday; I don't buy as much or as often as I used to, cuz I'm not crazy about going to comic shops
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