teacher training – Adventures in Oceanography and Teaching

Published! Dunnett & Glessmer (2025) “Positionality statements in engineering education: A European perspective”

mglessmer — Mon, 19 May 2025 10:54:16 +0000

Sharing is not always caring! And especially expecting others to share things about themselves that they might not be ready to share. The editorial “Positionality statements in engineering education: A European perspective” by Kirsty and myself that is now published (contact me for a pdf if you don’t have access!) has been in the works […]

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Currently reading Ferguson (2025) on “Norwegian higher education teachers’ beliefs about teaching, motivation, and approaches to researching and developing teaching”

mglessmer — Thu, 15 May 2025 18:39:31 +0000

I recently interviewed a bunch of teachers about thresholds they have faced and overcome, or are still facing, regarding teaching for sustainability. One question was where they would turn for inspiration and support if they wanted to develop their teaching. Despite me asking this clearly in my role as academic developer in their institution who […]

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Currently reading: “Why do teachers matter?” by López-Martín et al. (2023)

mglessmer — Thu, 01 May 2025 16:40:54 +0000

The study I am summarising here is a meta-analysis of 40 studies on how teacher characteristics influence secondary-school students, and they find that teacher characteristics and competencies explain 9% of the difference in student performance! The most important teacher characteristic in that is reflexivity, reconsidering own beliefs and knowledge actively, carefully, and persistently for a […]

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Christensen & Weissmann (2025) on using audio diaries for reflection on early career academic teacher identities

mglessmer — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 13:39:56 +0000

In the Introduction to Teaching and Learning course that I teach twice each year, we include a compulsory “individual reflection”, where participants pick an experience they have had in a higher education context, as student or teacher, and reflect on it in the context of the theory they learn during the course. While most participants […]

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Recently published: “Adapting a Teaching Method to Fit Purpose and Context” (Glessmer, Bovill & Daae; 2024)

mglessmer — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 16:02:19 +0000

New article published! “Adapting a Teaching Method to Fit Purpose and Context” (Glessmer, Bovill & Daae; 2024), based on this blogpost, but a little more thought through and polished with Cathy and Kjersti in beautiful Voss! Check it out here, and enjoy! M. S. Glessmer, C. Bovill, and K. Daae (2024). Adapting a teaching method […]

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Throwback to the pandemic: Teaching, cognitive and social presence (Rapanta et al., 2020), and zoom fatigue (Bailenson, 2021)

mglessmer — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 12:05:24 +0000

When I was teaching the emergency “how to teach online” courses online during the pandemic, I used to refer to an article by Rapanta et al. (2020) a lot, where they talk about teaching, cognitive, and social presence, which I want to link to in another post I am working on. But either I cannot […]

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Mussel filtering water

mglessmer — Thu, 31 Aug 2017 11:10:17 +0000

And something more from the teacher training at Lotseninsel: A mussel that sucks in water dyed with food coloring and then pumps it out on the other side again. Very fascinating for a physical oceanographer who has never dealt with anything living in the water before :-)

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Flatfish and mud

mglessmer — Tue, 29 Aug 2017 11:06:26 +0000

Here is something else I filmed during teacher training at Lotseninsel: how some flatfish (that the other group caught close to the island) digs itself into the mud. Pretty cool to watch!

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Teacher training at Lotseninsel

mglessmer — Sat, 08 Jul 2017 06:15:03 +0000

As I mentioned yesterday, I recently contributed to a teacher training on Lotseninsel, a tiny island on the Baltic Sea coast. The training was run by the Ozean:Labor of the Kieler Forschungswerkstatt, and we spent Friday to Sunday there. I’m going to show you some impressions of that weekend here. At first, it did not look […]

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