#Teaching

N I A - C E R I S E

niacerise

(Thread ) Please do not mistake teaching for a fruit of the Spirit. IT IS A GIFT. Many wolves are hiding behind "great teaching gifts" & too many of us

Theatre's New Realities (RHUL)

newrealities20

Here we are with some introductions from Aneta Mancewicz (@RHULDrama), @SigalSarah + @AdamLenson.A reminder to sign up for tomorrow's Open Space, facilitated by @improbable1, which gives everyone the opportunity to

Jo VanEvery, PhD #migrant

JoVanEvery

Here's a thing. Even in the Before Times, there were a bunch of people who thought a one hour teaching class was 60 minutes even when it was officially 50

Chris Millard

chrismillard83

the bristol SU statement on how they are lobbying for more F2F is a profoundly sad indictment of the fees regime and its consequences it is absolutely valuable for students

Neurodivergent Practitioner (she/her)

NDPractitioner

When I was first starting out in teaching I was very anti-knowledge rich curriculum and very pro-experiential learning and learning to learn. Now I've done a couple of years I've

Tereza Valny

tvalny1

A thread: Postdocs need to get rid of their cut-off dates (i.e., 'PhD must be submitted no longer than 2 years before application', etc). This is not a democratic process

Ari Ezra Waldman

ariezrawaldman

Hey #academictwitter: As we prep for an at least part-online semester, we have to have a convo about the “cameras on” policy for synchronous video classes. Here I raise q’s

Dr Raul Pacheco-Vega

raulpacheco

I have news about online teaching and reading workload, friends. I have experimented with REDUCING the number of readings I assign for a class. This is hard in overview courses

Luis Eslava

l_eslava

Between 25 Nov. and 4 Dec., with my colleagues at Kent and across 60 other UK universities, we will be taking strike action in response to longstanding institutional inequality &

Brandon Lee Sears

Brandonleesears

Long rant...For two years I’ve tried unsuccessfully to land a consistent teaching job at most all performing arts colleges in London. I’m not one to blame (normally) ....so I am

Bibliophile

Gwenelope

My two-penneth on the Great English Teaching kerfuffle 2020:1. Prescriptivist grammar teaching IS problematic, see the KS2 Grammar test which is prescriptivist AND pays no head to stages of child

Rohini Harvey

RohiniHarvey

Looking over this article on challenges for women academic hospitalists yet again. It gets at some key issues but doesn’t mention what I think of as the women’s work of

Scott Galloway

profgalloway

Teaching is moving to online. Some tips from me: 1. When teaching via live video/Zoom, most important, you have to over-animate. Gestures are always good in public speaking —

Dr Vanessa

HPS_Vanessa

That's because these aren't 'online classes', they are emergency 'make do' classes.Unis need to bite the bullet, commit to offsite learning for 2020-21 & give us the chance to actually

Tim Fawns

timbocop

Thinking about formality in education. What purpose it serves, what effects it has. In higher ed, especially postgraduate, very formal teaching seems out of place to me. It reinforces hierarchies,

Martin Wall

bballmwall

Kind of a long tweet so sorry in advance My wife is not on twitter and I’ll say you’re lying if any of you tell her about this but