Quantum leaps in Teaching
What are the things that take your teaching from meh, to good, in one simple shift?
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I’ve been reflecting on teaching, mine and others. And I’ve begun to realise that teaching is not improved by a small gradual incline. Experience does not equal improvement, nor does it equal excellence. Improvement is something that happens in fits and spurts, but also, most importantly, it improves like social movements do.
Once something has changed, it stays that way forever. These are what I have taken to refer to as my ‘quantum leaps’ in teaching below. *Actually good name pending* Once you have taken one of these quantum leaps, your vision of teaching is irreparably changed, there is no going back, you’ve moved from darkness to light. They can take the form of theories, beliefs, strategies, interventions, technologies, technologies, practices, efficiency hacks, tools, relationship strategies, habits and perhaps other things also. Consider the below list, and think about what your quantum leaps of teaching have been, and most importantly, how things were changed forevermore after that.
Or alternatively, for a younger audience: “Show me the life hack that you randomly saw one day, that is now a standard, unconscious practice in your life. I’ll go first.”
Here are some categories that I will explore through later posts:
Theoretical understanding
Strategies
Shifting beliefs
Activities
Interventions
Technologies
Tools
Relationship strategies
Practices
Efficiency Hacks
Habits
Keep-sakes
Teaching truisms
Keen to hear if anyone has any ideas that fall under these categories, or even any ideas that do not, does this idea have weight? Does it have legs? Let’s find out, as I try and thrash out lots of posts exploring different things that I think improved my teaching in this way!
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