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
Context Switching
ADHD and the issue of context switching These last couple of weeks, a term made the rounds in our department which I had never heard before and which finally gave me a picture to an issue I had for a while. There seems to be some struggle with context switching at the moment. Which made … Continue reading Context Switching
The Vortex of Writing
Warning this is kind of sort of a rant. So I have about 7 different posts drafted all more or less ready to go but more than half of them are fairly negative. I am not sure if this is a side effect of writing every day? Has anyone else made this experience? Continue reading The Vortex of Writing
Relevant Teaching
Last semester, when teaching on a course called Student Engagement, I asked the participants why they choose this particular course. They were honest. Seriously, I need to stop building trust, they were really, really honest. Continue reading Relevant Teaching
Washing Machine Emergency and CPD Sessions
Washing Machine Emergency & CPD Sessions: when a flooded kitchen throws the spanner into your writing plans. Continue reading Washing Machine Emergency and CPD Sessions
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
How to write regularly?
Trying out a writing challenge. 30 posts in 30 days: The next 30 days will not mark a full calendar month or some other sort of temporal meaningfulness. The only reason I use today, is that I have despite all the good advice not yet managed to create this every day routine. Which is just generally difficult for me–heck I am glad if I remember to moisturize! So beginning today gives me four days (including the weekend) where there are no excuses for not writing. It’s basically a little bit of a head-start. Continue reading How to write regularly?
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
Blooming Taxonomies
Catching up and refreshing my knowledge about all kinds of educational theory and research–it was inevitable to stumble across Bloom’s Taxonomy again–The University of Iowa ‘s CELT has developed a really nice model. I am still not convinced. But I am supposed to teach it. So how do you teach something that you consider at … Continue reading Blooming Taxonomies
Experimenting with OERs for my Students
Padlets to share content wit students. Time and workload management board. Continue reading Experimenting with OERs for my Students
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
Herding Cats: The ADHD Academic
Have you ever heard the expression ‘managing academics is like trying to herd cats’? Now every time I hear this I nod knowingly and laugh. Now actually why is this? I mean it’s not as if I ever spoke to a professional cat herder. Have you? Continue reading Herding Cats: The ADHD Academic
Nathalie Tasler, PhD, SFHEA, MPhil, PGDip CCM, PGCert LTHE 