One Example
Not all initiatives originating outside our institution are hostile takeovers peddled by the professional educational initiative industry. Often, MiraCosta College faculty discover great approaches to teaching and learning through their independent research and participation in discipline related conferences and networks. Then, working through their departments and in partnership with their deans, faculty initiate curricular and/or pedagogy change.
Greetings MiraCostans:
At our TED talk style flex extravaganza ScholarScapes: MiraCosta Profs Share Big Ideas, Sociology Professor Sean Davis offered an introduction to Problem Based Learning in a talk he titled Learning By Doing.
Greetings MiraCostans:
In an effort to encourage new ways of thinking about flex week, PDP asked three of our faculty colleagues to share TED style talks followed by discussion and Q and A at an event we called ScholarScapes: Miracosta Profs Share Big Ideas
The goal was to invite some of our colleagues to share some of the big ideas they were interested in — as scholars, as educators, as human beings. When they presented their ideas, we live broadcasted them and also video recorded them for future use. And now we are going to begin to share these archived tools with the MiraCosta community for” just in time” professional development opportunities!
Greetings Colleagues!
The time has come to begin our preparations for our Spring 2018 flex week from January 12-19.
Flex week has tremendous potential to energize our shared commitment to MiraCosta’s students, but it can only achieve that goal when we all step up to create, share, and engage. Let’s share some of the amazing work we are doing with each other; let’s learn from each other’s ideas and experiences; let’s bring what we have learned from the reading we have done, research we have explored, and conferences we have attended to our campus community for our colleagues to think about too.
The last few editions of Joyful Tidings have generated some interesting and illuminating responses . I am struck by the different cool ways people share. Some folks offer long reflections, some short. Some send me an email and some post to the blog. But everyone always contributes something interesting, something worth reflecting on, something that advances the conversation.
In this message, I offer an extended look at the work one of our colleagues has been doing with active learning in her classrooms. I hope some of you will share your experiences with similar types of approaches (either as a teacher or a student) by responding to this email or visiting our Joyful Teaching blog (by the way, because it has so many images and is rather long, this message may well be easier to read on the blog).