Your Opportune Time for a New Direction in Education
Is it heresy to not begin planning with the curriculum, specifically state mandated? I run a student-centered classroom, so the curriculum is never my starting point! Here’s my 5-step classroom planning process I use to put my students front and centre of their learning.
I love that scene in Kung Fu Panda. It is the end of the movie, the team, including Po, have just defeated Tai Lung the fearsome snow leopard. Po is about to leave the village when his adoptive father, Mr.…
There is something magical about attending a classical music concert. Oops, did I just lose you? Hang in there, I am going somewhere with this! You enter the concert hall and find your seat. People are murmuring quietly. It’s all…
Exploring New Approaches in Higher Education to Enhance Learning and Improve Practice Working with academics in planning curriculum innovation across often unfamiliar knowledge domains, I spend much of my initial time endeavoring to understand different conceptual and methodological organizing frameworks for course development.…
Yes, it is true – I drink a lot of coffee. And so, I also buy a lot of coffee. My daughter always complains I drink too much, I buy too much! (really?) But it would appear she is right.…
What is an acceptable model of ‘online’ that will improve student outcomes? Proposed here, is a 3-part model of online learning pedagogy, to guide HE practitioners adopting elearning at a systems level.
I love the challenge when told that online or blended learning will not work in a particular subject! Read how I challenge academics to think outside their comfort zone.
Exploring the use of Hargreaves & Shirley’s Fourth Way in Higher Education, within an action research framework to inspire change in university teaching and learning.
When learning is not confined or defined by space or place I delivered an education sociology lecture in 2008, whilst teaching at the University of Tasmania, from the back of the lecture theatre. I sat about 6 rows from the…
Did you ever have a time when differentiating your classroom didn’t work? Yes, it happens. Sometimes there are times when it appears that ‘differentiation failed’. I want to share you my story. A tale about two young lads. Now, I…