metaphor – Adventures in Oceanography and Teaching

Reading about connections between theory and practice in teaching, metaphors for learning, and academically-supportive friendships

mglessmer — Mon, 09 Jan 2023 10:44:30 +0000

We recently ran a round-table discussion on “How to teach students who are not “mini-me”s (and don’t want to be)” at the Lund University Teaching and Learning conference last year, and now I am trying to write a conference paper on what we discussed there. So naturally, I am starting out by re-reading the literature […]

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How much of the work should the teacher vs the student do? Teaching as a dance, inspired by Joe Hoyle

mglessmer — Fri, 18 Mar 2022 10:52:36 +0000

This week I spent in a really interesting position: Sitting in the back of a workshop on “introduction to teaching and learning in higher education”, occasionally giving inputs, for example on microaggressions or Universal Design for Learning. And, this morning, about dance as a metaphor for learning and teaching. I first came across this metaphor […]

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