First Podcast
So we are creating podcasts now. This one we talk about preparing for the new semester and coping with workload https://youtu.be/OI7Uu6LBTmw Continue reading First Podcast
Category: Reflections
Reflective Practice with focus on learning and teaching
Thinking Thoughts
When you stuff your brain glutinously with ideas and paradoxes that push you into cognitive dissonance trying to come up with a story and there is no anti-acid—or granny’s really expensive gentian-schnapps—that can help the brain to break the thought-food down as it does with overeating during the holidays, then what do you do? Mind-Map? … Continue reading Thinking Thoughts
Influencing and Negotiating
So the quest is to analyse communication with colleagues and identifying where I ought to create that space is on! Continue reading Influencing and Negotiating
The Autopoietic Teacher
This writing exercise is challenging. It feels as if I share snapshots of a road-trip without telling you where I was going. My thoughts a junction of a conceptualization exercise. Hoping a cartography of thought will emerge. Continue reading The Autopoietic Teacher
Writing vs Boot-camp
Today was the first day of an eight week long twice a week 6-7 a.m. bootcamp I signed up for. On my way back when thinking about planning the writing activities I have to undertake. I realised there is a strange commonality between the early morning intensive circuits training and academic writing. Continue reading Writing vs Boot-camp
Teaching as a Healing Art
Identity and integrity have as much to do with our shadows and limits, our wounds and fears, as with our strengths and potentials. (Palmer, 1997) Continue reading Teaching as a Healing Art
The Power of Reflective Practice
Reflective practice, in conversations, in writing, is the teacher’s secret weapon. It doesn’t matter if we teach at university, college, or school. The ability to look over our own shoulders (knowledge on action) can help us develop knowledge in action. Continue reading The Power of Reflective Practice
Safe space for Failure
Triadic Reciprocal Causation This was the last project in my old role in student academic development. Discussions about resilience of students and the rise of mental health issues have been on the agenda for some years now. When I was approached to develop a concept for students who were permitted to repeat a year and … Continue reading Safe space for Failure
Bullet Journaling
Get Organized–Get Things Done One of my aims for this year was to become better organized to find a system. And Heureka! Whoohoo! Happy Dance! I have found it. From beginning: I have a myriad of journals which I write for different purposes and with varying consistency. One for projects, for meetings, for messy ideas, … Continue reading Bullet Journaling
Nathalie Tasler, PhD, SFHEA, MPhil, PGDip CCM, PGCert LTHE 