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A collection of methods for facilitating coaching of sustainability initiatives by Wandercoaching

mglessmer — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 18:15:28 +0000

In the book “The Psychology of Collective Climate Action: Building Climate Courage” by Hamann et al. (2025), I came across Wandercoaching, a peer-coaching initiative for sustainability initiatives at universities. They share the materials they use here, and I really liked the “tools for your sustainable university” guide full of different methods — many of them […]

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The jigsaw method (with editable files to organise it)

mglessmer — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 07:49:05 +0000

The “jigsaw method” is used for cooperative learning (and Anja Møgelvang explains here what that is). In a nutshell, let’s say we have a group of 25 students. We can split them into 5 groups à 5 students each. That is their home group, that they sit at one group table with for the duration […]

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Database of Methods of Nonviolent Protest and Persuasion

mglessmer — Sat, 25 May 2024 18:50:19 +0000

This blogpost is mostly a note to myself so that I don’t have to search for the database of methods for non-violent protest and persuasion next time I need it! Almost 200 methods, what a treasure for inspiration! They are grouped into “protest and persuasion”, “non-cooperation” and “intervention” (getting more and more confrontational), each with […]

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Recap of the first meeting of my new course “Teaching for Sustainability”

mglessmer — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 11:10:03 +0000

Yesterday was the first meeting of this spring’s installment of my “teaching for sustainability” course and it is so inspiring and energizing to meet so many motivated and engaged teachers! Here is what we did. We started out with “impromptu networking” (see figure below for instructions) so each participant got to speak to three others […]

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Playing with Microsoft Reflect, “a well-being app to support connection, expression, and learning”

mglessmer — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 07:42:12 +0000

Yesterday, a colleague pointed me to Microsoft Reflect, “A well-being app to support connection, expression, and learning”, and I had a quick play. It’s a tool to support reflection in educational settings (something that I am thinking about a lot in the context of teaching sustainability). Since it is not designed specifically for use in […]

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Structuring fieldwork as a jigsaw to increase student responsibility in, and ownership of, their projects

mglessmer — Mon, 13 Nov 2023 13:31:31 +0000

I am a huge fan of Kjersti‘s excellent teaching, it is always so inspiring! She, together with Hans-Christian, developed a jigsaw method to structure preparation for a student cruise, the cruise itself, and then writing of cruise reports. We wrote it up and submitted it for a forthcoming book on field teaching (which I will […]

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iEarth GeoLearning Forum 2023 Bingo

mglessmer — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 05:21:06 +0000

Unfortunately, I can’t join the iEarth GeoLearning Forum in person today, but at least I can be there in spirit (and contribute with a Bingo to be played during an active lunch break). The idea is to get students and teachers and staff talking to each other, about their experiences learning and teaching, and also […]

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How to create an Activity Bingo for teaching purposes

mglessmer — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 09:42:58 +0000

We have recently shared our experiences with a Bingo game to nudge students to make the most out of fieldwork (Glessmer et al., 2023), and I have created Bingos for other purposes, like designing courses with Universal Design for Learning in mind, or for my freediving club’s summer camp, or the iEarth GeoLearning Forum 2023 (yes, […]

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How can we adapt a teaching method for our purposes? The “Doughnut rounds” example

mglessmer — Mon, 04 Sep 2023 13:38:56 +0000

One thing that often surprises me is how seriously many teachers take teaching methods. As in, there must be fixed times for each of the phases of think-pair-share. Or there is an exact percentage of students that must answer a question correctly for a teacher to move on to the next topic. Or that sort […]

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Another serious game for teaching sustainability that I like: the Climate Fresk

mglessmer — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 05:25:58 +0000

As you’ve seen from my recent Biodiversity Collage posts, I have gotten into serious games as tools for teaching. Today, I am reading up on a different game, the Climate Fresk (which I also got introduced to when I got to play it in a workshop led by my awesome colleague Léa Lévy, and which […]

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