Remember back a few posts ago when I said that sometimes we need help to learn? And it’s true that most times, as adults, we don’t want to ask for it. Which is silly, right? Right?! RIGHT??!?!?! Well, a student shared this video with our Mentoring and Peer Coaching class last night. She thought it [...]
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This Could Have Been At Marylhurst
Posted in Adult Learners, Goals, Learning, Mentoring & Peer Coaching, Professional Development, tagged adultlearners, coaching, help, highereducation, Learning, Marylhurst, mentor, problemsolving, reflection on March 11, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Are You Untouchable?
Posted in Employment, Higher Education, Liberal Arts, Professional Development, tagged Employment, highereducation, liberalarts, problemsolving on October 27, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Recently, Thomas Friedman wrote an Op-Ed piece in The New York Times called The New Untouchables in which he argued that the economic crisis can be attributed to, in part, our poor educational systems. Here’s an excerpt that I think is key: A Washington lawyer friend recently told me about layoffs at his firm. I [...]
Sometimes I Am Coyote
Posted in Adult Learners, Higher Education, Learning, Preparing for Grad School, Reflection, tagged adultlearners, education, highereducation, Learning, problemsolving, reflection on June 15, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Stephen Brookfield is one of my academic heroes. I’ve read most of his books in my own study of adult learning and teaching, and his insights about learning, thinking, teaching –well, about being – never fail to impress me. One of Brookfield’s publications* is, I suspect, not widely know about. It’s a study of 311 [...]
A Solution Waiting to Happen
Posted in Language, Learning, Life, PLA, Toddlers, tagged PLA, problemsolving, Toddlers on May 1, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I ran across this quote the other day: “There are no more prizes for predicting rain. There are only prizes for building arks.” -Lou Gerstner, CEO of IBM It reminded me of a story that one of my PLA students told in an essay she submitted last term. When her employees came to her with [...]
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