POP QUIZ! What is the shortest word in the English language that contains all of these letters: abcdef? ANSWER? Feedback! And you know what? Sometimes we just don’t want to hear it! Sometimes it’s just really hard to receive! (Sometimes, when we are 2.6 years old, it makes us have a temper tantrum!) Mac reminds [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Toddlers’
Installment #12: What My Toddler Has Taught Me About Adult Learning
Posted in Adult Learners, Learning, Professional Development, Reflection, Toddlers, tagged adultlearners, Assessment, feedback, Learning, Life, reflection, Toddlers on July 16, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Installment #11: What My Toddler Has Taught Me About Adult Learning
Posted in Adult Learners, Learning, Sleep, Stress Relief, Toddlers, tagged adultlearners, Learning, Sleep, Toddlers on July 12, 2010 | 2 Comments »
ZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz! Sleep is really, really, really important. Our brains need rest. They need time to deal with new information; to manage our knowledge; and to assimilate and make sense of our new experiences. For Mac, his brain AND his body need rest. Even though he is getting older, if he doesn’t get a good nap [...]
Installment #10: What My Toddler Has Taught Me About Adult Learning
Posted in Adult Learners, Higher Education, Learning, Life, Toddlers, Work, tagged adultlearners, application, bikes, highereducation, integration, Learning, reflection, soccer, Toddlers on May 17, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Yes, yes, it’s been a while since I posted an installment of What My Toddler Has Taught Me About Adult Learning. But a lesson happened yesterday that so clearly stands out — because it’s funny, and because it’s right on — that I thought I’d better share. This is Mac during his soccer class (blurry [...]
Four Down; One To Go!
Posted in Learning, Toddlers, tagged Learning, Toddlers on April 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
In my family, especially with my toddler, we try our best to celebrate the small and otherwise “ordinary” successes that we have. Here is a picture of my kid’s sticker chart, which we hang on the fridge every Monday morning. If he uses his manners and is a “good boy” at school each day, he [...]
Installment #9: What My Toddler Has Taught Me About Adult Learning
Posted in Adult Learners, Change, Higher Education, Learning, Life, Toddlers, tagged adultlearners, Change, highereducation, knowledge, Learning, Life, problemsolving, reflection, Toddlers on March 16, 2010 | 6 Comments »
In this day and age, learning requires becoming and being comfortable with ambiguity and finding our way through a tunnel in which the end may not be in sight (or, in fact, in which there may not be an end). In his book Learning as a Way of Being, Peter Vaill calls these conditions of [...]
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 | 8 Comments »
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 [...]
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 | 10 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 [...]
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 | 12 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 [...]
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