Conference paper
Into The Wild: An Educator’s Journey Into the Teaching Wilderness and Back Again
WA Teaching & Learning Forum (Murdoch University, 10/01/2023–10/01/2023)
10/01/2023
Abstract
Throughout the 2010s, I developed a teaching practice based on robust academic principles and extensive lived experience in the classroom. But in 2020, my most proficient skills were diminished overnight, and I found myself spending the better part of three years teaching exclusively online and scrambling to keep pace with the change brought about by COVID-19.
In 2022, I re-entered the physical classroom. My time spent exclusively in the online world has taught me some valuable lessons relating to both teaching practice and unit design.
The purpose of this presentation is to deliver a reflexive commentary concerning one educator’s re-discovery of effective teaching practice in the classroom. I explore the ways in which I draw on the online world as my personal ‘gym’ for developing face-to-face teaching ‘muscle’. I discuss transactional learning versus transformational learning; educators as storytellers; and minimalism and efficiency as the core tenets of online teaching that I’ve transposed into the face-to-face domain with great success.
My hope is that this presentation will inspire other educators to examine how their own face-to-face teaching practice can be bolstered through a consideration of online teaching as ‘the gym’, that informs the development of a more powerful face-to-face teaching practice.
Details
- Title
- Into The Wild: An Educator’s Journey Into the Teaching Wilderness and Back Again
- Authors/Creators
- Samuel K Teague
- Conference
- WA Teaching & Learning Forum (Murdoch University, 10/01/2023–10/01/2023)
- Identifiers
- 991005618969507891
- Murdoch Affiliation
- Murdoch University
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Conference paper
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