In one of my favorite books on teaching — The Courage to Teach — Parker Palmer reminds us of the importance of learning in community:
The growth of any craft depends on shared practice and honest dialogue among the people who do it. We grow by private trial and error, to be sure — but [...]
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Installment #8: What My Toddler Has Taught Me About Adult Learning
Posted in Adult Learners, Books, Community, Friends, Learning, Life, Teaching, Toddlers, tagged adultlearners, Community, Learning, Teaching, Toddlers on March 9, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Plagiarism: A Pirate’s Perspective
Posted in Academic Honesty, Blogs, Friends, Higher Education, Learning, Teaching, tagged highereducation, Learning, plagiarism, Teaching on February 22, 2010 | 1 Comment »
The Didactic Pirate is a blog written by a friend of mine from grad school who teaches English at a state university in Southern California (I wouldn’t be so vague except I think he wants to keep his identity somewhat obscure). In this hilarious post, he shares a somewhat facetious perspective on how college instructors [...]
Looking Forward
Posted in Accreditation, Assessment, Dean Stuff, Higher Education, Learning, Teaching, Work, tagged Assessment, deanstuff, highereducation, Learning, Marylhurst, Teaching on February 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Looking forward. That’s what I am doing, like the Montgomery Improvement Association. I think, in effect, an “Improvement Association” is what our Assessment Committee has defined in our creation of the Marylhurst Assessment Program.
A few weeks back, I read a white paper written by Peter Ewell (aka “The Assessment God”) titled Assessment, Accountability, and Improvement: [...]
Installment #5: What My Toddler Has Taught Me About Adult Learning
Posted in Adult Learners, Books, Learning, Toddlers, tagged adultlearners, Books, Learning, Toddlers on December 17, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Installment #5 is all about books, because each and every day, Mac reminds me just how important books are. Books have become Mac’s beloved friends: they comfort him when he’s upset, they entertain him when he’s bored, they help him wake up and go to sleep, and they teach him.
We take Dr. Seuss’s ABC book [...]
Installment #4: What My Toddler Has Taught Me About Adult Learning
Posted in Adult Learners, Learning, PLA, Toddlers, tagged adultlearners, Learning, Toddlers on December 14, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Lesson #4:
Sometimes we can learn a great deal by carefully observing others.
Even if others aren’t exactly experts!
(No offense, dear husband.)
As one of my PLA students wrote in her essay on Leadership Communication:
I learned all about leadership communication by working for a person who did not do it well. Everything she did represented everything [...]
Installment #3: What My Toddler Has Taught Me About Adult Learning
Posted in Adult Learners, Learning, Toddlers, tagged adultlearners, Learning, Toddlers on December 11, 2009 | 8 Comments »
In this third installment of What My Toddler Has Taught Me About Adult Learning (here is installment #1; here is installment#2), I offer you a sequence of three photos. (I also apologize for the blur; it is representative of the speed with which Mac was learning.)
The lesson Mac offers us adult learners?
Never underestimate the amazing [...]
Installment #2: What My Toddler Has Taught Me About Adult Learning
Posted in Adult Learners, Learning, Toddlers, tagged adultlearners, Learning, Toddlers on December 9, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Learning as adults is a developmental process, just as it is for Mac.
At first we see the possibility of simply playing with the car, but very soon we become the drivers of the whole big bus!
In between these moments?
GROWTH.
Installment #1: What My Toddler Has Taught Me About Adult Learning
Posted in Learning, Toddlers, tagged Learning, Toddlers on December 7, 2009 | 9 Comments »
For the first installment of “What My Toddler Has Taught Me About Adult Learning,” here is a little story that will either warm your heart or make your stomach churn.
A few weeks ago, Mac and I were talking about dinner on our drive home from school. The conversation went like this:
Me: Mac, what would you [...]
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