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Helping others with using simulations
Of late, I’ve been working with the Higher Education Academy once more, developing more resources for their excellent New to Teaching Toolkit site. This is intended to help those with less experience develop their own practice in a supported way. … Continue reading
Posted in and Simulations, Simon Usherwood, Online Classes, Academia
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Guest Blog: Getting Feedback
I’m very pleased to be able to introduce another guest post from Holly Snaith (Aston): if you’d like to contribute, then please just get in touch with any of us. Simon I was intending to write an entirely different post … Continue reading
Putting your cards on the table
Since it’s the final week of the teaching semester, I’ve been getting feedback on my modules, both through the standard module evaluations (run by the university) and in-class discussion. As always, it makes for a fascinating interaction. Instead of discussing … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Classroom Behavior, Seminars, Simon Usherwood, Skills
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Getting formative feedback for yourself
My email inbox has several reminders that we are in the season of module evaluations. At Surrey, we run this centrally, with students completing forms online on each module and over a wider range of questions and I’m assuming that … Continue reading
Learned helplessness all round
Following on curiouscat’s response to my post, I’ve been rather taken with the idea of learned helplessness. This past week I’ve been tied up with validating our new degree programmes: we had our final meetings with the panel and got … Continue reading
Make like MacGyver
During the past week I’ve been engaging with some very different groups of people. On the one hand, I’ve spent time with some people talking about public communication and on the other, I’ve attended a workshop on using stories in … Continue reading
Building programmes of study
For most of this year, I’ve been working with my colleagues to put together some big piles of documentation for the official university validation of our new degree programmes (Politics and Sociology and Politics and Economics for undergrads, European Politics … Continue reading
Thatcher as a teachable moment
As you’ll have noticed, Margaret Thatcher died yesterday. Rather than add to the mountain of comment on her legacy/’meaning’/etc. I want to talk instead about how her death is a classic example of a teachable moment. Over the past 24 … Continue reading
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Prizes!
Well, just one, actually. Since this blog was such a big part of my success, it’s only fair to thank my excellent colleagues and all of you readers for helping me to become the winner of the Political Studies Association’s … Continue reading
Conference time!
I’m off in an hour or so to the Political Studies Association annual conference in Cardiff. It’s only a flying visit, for reasons that will become apparent later on, but it’s a great opportunity to step out of my normal … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Conferences, Presentations, Simon Usherwood, Skills
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