Plus One Podcast: Recent Episodes
Joe Houghton
The Plus One podcast - educators inspiring educators!
Join host Joe Houghton as he interviews innovative and creative educators from a variety of fields, disciplines and educational backgrounds, and explores their approaches to teaching and learning. Learn actionable tips to apply to your own teaching practice from educators who are there doing it for real!
Samantha Mason-Vazquez is a mindset and career transformation coach based in Colorado, USA. Samantha has undergrad & Master’s degrees in psychology & also Fine Arts, and is also a Doctor of Law, and has an impressive list of clients including Google, Hewlett Packard and United Airlines.
We spend a fascinating hour discussing her techniques and approaches to help people achieve personal transformation, and I even get a bit of coaching myself - scary stuff!
Her 2-word self-description is “perpetual student” which is probably a common thread for many of the guests on the podcast! Samantha runs her business through her website ModernMind.io.
Samantha's Plus One
"Use Gratitude as a way to equalize where you are now with where you want to be."
Links:
Modernmind – Samantha’s website - https://modernmind.io/
Mindvalley - https://www.mindvalley.com/
Jose Silva Method – 2 hr video introduced by Jose Silva on his Self-Help and Meditation technique - https://youtu.be/X2v5vDKz8yY
Creative Discovery Group - https://creativediscoverygroup.com/
Books mentioned:
“Who moved my cheese?” – Spencer Johnson - https://amzn.to/3AmjmXk “Outliers” - Malcolm Gladwell - https://amzn.to/3wAqMFd
Quote from Samantha:
“You take the steering wheel of your life, and you start steering…”
Samantha Mason-Vazquez is a mindset and career transformation coach based in Colorado, USA. Samantha has undergrad & Master’s degrees in psychology & also Fine Arts, and is also a Doctor of Law, and has an impressive list of clients including Google, Hewlett Packard and United Airlines.
We spend a fascinating hour discussing her techniques and approaches to help people achieve personal transformation, and I even get a bit of coaching myself - scary stuff!
Her 2-word self-description is “perpetual student” which is probably a common thread for many of the guests on the podcast! Samantha runs her business through her website ModernMind.io.
Samantha's Plus One
"Use Gratitude as a way to equalize where you are now with where you want to be."
Links:
Modernmind – Samantha’s website - https://modernmind.io/
Mindvalley - https://www.mindvalley.com/
Jose Silva Method – 2 hr video introduced by Jose Silva on his Self-Help and Meditation technique - https://youtu.be/X2v5vDKz8yY
Creative Discovery Group - https://creativediscoverygroup.com/
Books mentioned:
“Who moved my cheese?” – Spencer Johnson - https://amzn.to/3AmjmXk “Outliers” - Malcolm Gladwell - https://amzn.to/3wAqMFd
Quote from Samantha:
“You take the steering wheel of your life, and you start steering…”
Tucker is a thinker about education – why and how it should be done. With 5 degrees and much research into teaching, learning and the process of education he founded his own school to put his ideas into practice, which makes for a fascinating and insight-packed discussion that any educator can take value from. The benefits of self-paced learning vs everyone going through the process of learning at the same speed is explored. Tucker dissects and opens up the weaknesses of the current “standard” educational system and poses some fascinating questions about the status quo and how it might be changed…
Quotes
“I don’t do anything except get out of their way – they know what to do”
Tucker’s Plus One
“Get to know your students and their parents as best you can. Make sure that they know you are on the child's side in everything you possibly can be (even when it rubs the administrators the wrong way). I can't tell you how often that has gotten the lens of scrutiny away from me, and for what it has done for my career. I'm now considered something of an expert in what I do and have been given the opportunity to conduct educational research regarding my methods.”
Links
Tucker on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/tucker-colburn-a9b26210/
Tucker’s school - The Independent School of the Mid-South - https://indmidsouth.com/
Summerhill – Suffolk, UK – democratic school – https://www.summerhillschool.co.uk/
Homer Lane - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer_Lane
Tucker is a thinker about education – why and how it should be done. With 5 degrees and much research into teaching, learning and the process of education he founded his own school to put his ideas into practice, which makes for a fascinating and insight-packed discussion that any educator can take value from. The benefits of self-paced learning vs everyone going through the process of learning at the same speed is explored. Tucker dissects and opens up the weaknesses of the current “standard” educational system and poses some fascinating questions about the status quo and how it might be changed…
Quotes
“I don’t do anything except get out of their way – they know what to do”
Tucker’s Plus One
“Get to know your students and their parents as best you can. Make sure that they know you are on the child's side in everything you possibly can be (even when it rubs the administrators the wrong way). I can't tell you how often that has gotten the lens of scrutiny away from me, and for what it has done for my career. I'm now considered something of an expert in what I do and have been given the opportunity to conduct educational research regarding my methods.”
Links
Tucker on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/tucker-colburn-a9b26210/
Tucker’s school - The Independent School of the Mid-South - https://indmidsouth.com/
Summerhill – Suffolk, UK – democratic school – https://www.summerhillschool.co.uk/
Homer Lane - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer_Lane
We had a blast making this episode! Professor Jackie Carter shows that being a Professor of Statistics is anything but scary and takes us through a fascinating squiggle career with loads of divergence, empathy and wonderful anecdotes about teaching, learning and doing things differently!
Jackie is author of "Work placements, internships and applied social research" - available on Amazon at https://amzn.to/3zlDyYX
She is also a Board member with the Urban Big Data Centre.
Books we should read:
“How to find fulfilling work” by Roman Krznaric
I am reading 'The New Power University' (2021) by Jonathan Grant which discusses the social purpose of 21st century higher education.
I read Stefan Collini's 'What are Universities for?' about 10 years ago and that is worth reading (and beautifully written).
And my next read is 'Miseducation' by the sociologist Diane Reay - who like me has had a working class route to where she is now.
Also because I am a huge advocate of self-reflection I would recommend Jennifer Moon's 'Using Story in Higher Education and Professional Development' which I have just bought.
And although it's not a book for educators per se I would recommend To Kill a Mockingbird - because it's the best book I know about seeing situations through others' perspectives.
Jackie's "Plus One":
Celebrate learning. We focus so much on assessment but I focus on celebrating learning through the process of self-reflection, and creating opportunities (like a student half-day conference) so share our success stories. Celebrating learning also means acknowledging mistakes and learning from them - I am a huge fan of making mistakes!
We had a blast making this episode! Professor Jackie Carter shows that being a Professor of Statistics is anything but scary and takes us through a fascinating squiggle career with loads of divergence, empathy and wonderful anecdotes about teaching, learning and doing things differently!
Jackie is author of "Work placements, internships and applied social research" - available on Amazon at https://amzn.to/3zlDyYX
She is also a Board member with the Urban Big Data Centre.
Books we should read:
“How to find fulfilling work” by Roman Krznaric
I am reading 'The New Power University' (2021) by Jonathan Grant which discusses the social purpose of 21st century higher education.
I read Stefan Collini's 'What are Universities for?' about 10 years ago and that is worth reading (and beautifully written).
And my next read is 'Miseducation' by the sociologist Diane Reay - who like me has had a working class route to where she is now.
Also because I am a huge advocate of self-reflection I would recommend Jennifer Moon's 'Using Story in Higher Education and Professional Development' which I have just bought.
And although it's not a book for educators per se I would recommend To Kill a Mockingbird - because it's the best book I know about seeing situations through others' perspectives.
Jackie's "Plus One":
Celebrate learning. We focus so much on assessment but I focus on celebrating learning through the process of self-reflection, and creating opportunities (like a student half-day conference) so share our success stories. Celebrating learning also means acknowledging mistakes and learning from them - I am a huge fan of making mistakes!
My guest on the show is Paul Hine FRSA, who is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufacturers and Commerce - granted to individuals that the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) judges to have made outstanding achievements to social progress and development.
His LinkedIn profile describes Paul as a Theatre Maker - someone who creates theatre and associated experiences. Paul is Director of Made By Mortals, a company that bring's people's experience to life' through immersive (stuff that gets you right involved in the action) podcasts, films and musical theatre shows.
He teaches in community, non-profits and Health and Social Care workforce development – no mention here of “formal” educational institutions – which is one of the reasons I asked him onto the podcast.
Links:
• Made by Mortals - https://www.madebymortals.org/ • Armchair Adventures podcast for kids - https://www.madebymortals.org/armchair-adventures/ • Hilary Cottam – Radical Help - https://amzn.to/3RWufXF
Paul’s Plus One
“Something about how you can make sessions experiential and participatory- about the power of using participatory arts practice and how it can move people into the right space to learn and explore from. Something about working with people with lived experience.”
My guest on the show is Paul Hine FRSA, who is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufacturers and Commerce - granted to individuals that the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) judges to have made outstanding achievements to social progress and development.
His LinkedIn profile describes Paul as a Theatre Maker - someone who creates theatre and associated experiences. Paul is Director of Made By Mortals, a company that bring's people's experience to life' through immersive (stuff that gets you right involved in the action) podcasts, films and musical theatre shows.
He teaches in community, non-profits and Health and Social Care workforce development – no mention here of “formal” educational institutions – which is one of the reasons I asked him onto the podcast.
Links:
• Made by Mortals - https://www.madebymortals.org/ • Armchair Adventures podcast for kids - https://www.madebymortals.org/armchair-adventures/ • Hilary Cottam – Radical Help - https://amzn.to/3RWufXF
Paul’s Plus One
“Something about how you can make sessions experiential and participatory- about the power of using participatory arts practice and how it can move people into the right space to learn and explore from. Something about working with people with lived experience.”
Ivey Business School Professor, Axiologist and renowned academic Elena Antonacopoulou talks about advances in management education, her love of language and linking management with art in this fascinating and wide-ranging hour.
Ivey Business School Professor, Axiologist and renowned academic Elena Antonacopoulou talks about advances in management education, her love of language and linking management with art in this fascinating and wide-ranging hour.
William Davis is an entrepreneur who set up FabLab in the USA (see https://www.fablabs.io/ ) and is also one of the founding members of the Nation of Makers (https://www.nationofmakers.us/ ), an organization established under the Obama administration to help manufacturing return to the USA. He has over 20 years of retail experience with CostCo in a variety of sales and product roles, and recently has moved over to Ireland to pursue an MBA at NUI Galway.
William has just started with the UCD Innovation Academy as a “Creative Makers Facilitator” – see https://www.innovationacademy.ie/team/william-davis
William’s Plus One - Don't be afraid of technology- you have to jump in at some point. Buy the $150 3D printer, look up some YouTube videos, "Get messy, make some mistakes.." Ask stupid questions on Reddit and Facebook forums... reach out to your peers, join discussion groups. Get it done!
Recommended podcasts
• Stuff you Should Know Podcasts - https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-stuff-you-should-know-26940277/ • Planet Money - https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510289/planet-money/ • TheoTech (`technology in the Church) - https://www.theotech.org/
• Contact William on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/billydavis/
William Davis is an entrepreneur who set up FabLab in the USA (see https://www.fablabs.io/ ) and is also one of the founding members of the Nation of Makers (https://www.nationofmakers.us/ ), an organization established under the Obama administration to help manufacturing return to the USA. He has over 20 years of retail experience with CostCo in a variety of sales and product roles, and recently has moved over to Ireland to pursue an MBA at NUI Galway.
William has just started with the UCD Innovation Academy as a “Creative Makers Facilitator” – see https://www.innovationacademy.ie/team/william-davis
William’s Plus One - Don't be afraid of technology- you have to jump in at some point. Buy the $150 3D printer, look up some YouTube videos, "Get messy, make some mistakes.." Ask stupid questions on Reddit and Facebook forums... reach out to your peers, join discussion groups. Get it done!
Recommended podcasts
• Stuff you Should Know Podcasts - https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-stuff-you-should-know-26940277/ • Planet Money - https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510289/planet-money/ • TheoTech (`technology in the Church) - https://www.theotech.org/
• Contact William on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/billydavis/
This episode is different!
Joel Leonard is an educator, an entrepreneur, an activist and a Maker, based in North Carolina, USA. He is (I think!) my first guest with Shawnee and Cherokee ancestry. He inspires people around the need for practical skills, bringing his message far and wide, travelling to those who are sometimes outside mainstream education, including and empowering.
This interview was recorded on the hottest day of 2021 back in July, and so many things went wrong - it was done on 30 minutes notice, I forgot to hit the record button for the first 20 minutes of our discussion, and Joel was on his phone which lost power a couple of times, so apologies if it is a little disjointed as I tried to cut the different segments together into something of a coherent whole. As I lost my introduction in the missed 20 minutes - here it is:
Joel is I think the first guest on the podcast with Shawnee & Cherokee ancestry, and I’m talking via the magic of Zoom with him at his home in North Carolina, USA just before he sets off on a 4,500 mile, 20-day trek to bring educational resources to the Navaho tribe. Making stuff happen seems to be Joel’s mission in life! And his office is his car – another first I think for the podcast…
Joel is Chairman of the Manufacturing Workforce Advisory Committee in the National Defence Industrial Association. He has spoken at international conferences & before US Congress, on CNBC, NPR. He created an online TV Show, written hundreds of columns about solutions to skills gaps and working in the trenches of building pipelines of skilled technicians in aviation, machining and maintenance sectors.
In 2014 Joel helped set up a maker space in Greensboro where 16 companies were formed, 9 patents filed and over 50 job seekers got employment. Joel has counselled college presidents, executives, governmental leaders on how to build a stronger workforce and prepare for future talent needs.
Joel won numerous American Business Publication Editors awards for my columns, was awarded the VFW Americanism Award for helping place veterans into employment, was given Greensboro Community Foundation Game-Changer Award and on January 4th 2016 received the Conover Citizenship Award.
Anyway, sit back and enjoy an inspirational 50 minutes from Joel !
Links:
Contact Joel by email at Joelskilltv@gmail.com or by phone on +1 336 338 1011
Joel's website is at www.makesborousa.com
A book he recommends is "Inside the Tornado" - https://amzn.to/3npDqlj
Podcast to follow - "Nation of Makers" - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPxwwpJE0Ar3IQYBGHfFJzg
This episode is different!
Joel Leonard is an educator, an entrepreneur, an activist and a Maker, based in North Carolina, USA. He is (I think!) my first guest with Shawnee and Cherokee ancestry. He inspires people around the need for practical skills, bringing his message far and wide, travelling to those who are sometimes outside mainstream education, including and empowering.
This interview was recorded on the hottest day of 2021 back in July, and so many things went wrong - it was done on 30 minutes notice, I forgot to hit the record button for the first 20 minutes of our discussion, and Joel was on his phone which lost power a couple of times, so apologies if it is a little disjointed as I tried to cut the different segments together into something of a coherent whole. As I lost my introduction in the missed 20 minutes - here it is:
Joel is I think the first guest on the podcast with Shawnee & Cherokee ancestry, and I’m talking via the magic of Zoom with him at his home in North Carolina, USA just before he sets off on a 4,500 mile, 20-day trek to bring educational resources to the Navaho tribe. Making stuff happen seems to be Joel’s mission in life! And his office is his car – another first I think for the podcast…
Joel is Chairman of the Manufacturing Workforce Advisory Committee in the National Defence Industrial Association. He has spoken at international conferences & before US Congress, on CNBC, NPR. He created an online TV Show, written hundreds of columns about solutions to skills gaps and working in the trenches of building pipelines of skilled technicians in aviation, machining and maintenance sectors.
In 2014 Joel helped set up a maker space in Greensboro where 16 companies were formed, 9 patents filed and over 50 job seekers got employment. Joel has counselled college presidents, executives, governmental leaders on how to build a stronger workforce and prepare for future talent needs.
Joel won numerous American Business Publication Editors awards for my columns, was awarded the VFW Americanism Award for helping place veterans into employment, was given Greensboro Community Foundation Game-Changer Award and on January 4th 2016 received the Conover Citizenship Award.
Anyway, sit back and enjoy an inspirational 50 minutes from Joel !
Links:
Contact Joel by email at Joelskilltv@gmail.com or by phone on +1 336 338 1011
Joel's website is at www.makesborousa.com
A book he recommends is "Inside the Tornado" - https://amzn.to/3npDqlj
Podcast to follow - "Nation of Makers" - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPxwwpJE0Ar3IQYBGHfFJzg
Ann Foulds recently joined the UCD Innovation Academy as a Facilitation Specialist and brings a varied set of career experiences to the role. Ann has a degree in media & anthropology, has been a primary school teacher, is a trained journalist and experienced educator in several fields, is an educational advisor to the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland, and if all that isn’t enough, is also a qualified Samadhi yoga teacher.
Ann is passionate about sustainability and permaculture, is an experienced media & video producer and produced a fabulous Youtube series for children called "Plastic Free for Kids".
Plastic Free for Kids on Youtube - https://youtu.be/KdOlzQZPSPw
Books Ann recommends:
- Paulo Freire - Pedagogy of the Oppressed
- Ken Robinson - Anything he has written, spoke or been involved with.
- Richard Louv - Last Child in the Woods,
- Lorna Gold - Climate Generation: Awakening to our children's future
- Oliver Jeffers - Here We Are: Notes for Living On Planet Earth
Ann's recommendations for CPD courses:
- Creativity & Change https://www.creativityandchange.ie
- IDEO U - from Ideas to Action - https://www.ideou.com/
Contact Ann at:
- ann.foulds@ucd.ie
- annfoulds@gmail.com
- instagram @annfoulds
- LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/annfoulds/
Ann Foulds recently joined the UCD Innovation Academy as a Facilitation Specialist and brings a varied set of career experiences to the role. Ann has a degree in media & anthropology, has been a primary school teacher, is a trained journalist and experienced educator in several fields, is an educational advisor to the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland, and if all that isn’t enough, is also a qualified Samadhi yoga teacher.
Ann is passionate about sustainability and permaculture, is an experienced media & video producer and produced a fabulous Youtube series for children called "Plastic Free for Kids".
Plastic Free for Kids on Youtube - https://youtu.be/KdOlzQZPSPw
Books Ann recommends:
- Paulo Freire - Pedagogy of the Oppressed
- Ken Robinson - Anything he has written, spoke or been involved with.
- Richard Louv - Last Child in the Woods,
- Lorna Gold - Climate Generation: Awakening to our children's future
- Oliver Jeffers - Here We Are: Notes for Living On Planet Earth
Ann's recommendations for CPD courses:
- Creativity & Change https://www.creativityandchange.ie
- IDEO U - from Ideas to Action - https://www.ideou.com/
Contact Ann at:
- ann.foulds@ucd.ie
- annfoulds@gmail.com
- instagram @annfoulds
- LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/annfoulds/
Welcome to Season 2 of the Plus One podcast! More amazing educators sharing their stories and approaches to teaching and learning, to give the rest of us ideas for improving our own practice.
Suzanne Buttimer runs the Rockwell Music Academy, based in Cashel, County Tipperary. Suzanne is a different educator from any of my other guests – she teaches music, and everywhere but University & College, so we’re in a different educational space today, which is great!
What other websites or podcasts do you follow which inform you as an educator?
- Bressie - Where is my mind? - https://www.niallbreslin.com/copy-of-wake-up-wind-down
- Music for Kiddos Podcasts - https://www.musicforkiddos.com/blog
- Conservatoires - https://www.musicalchairs.info/ireland/conservatoires
- Artists, I am always networking and most recently with American Educator - Jodie Marie Fisher#colorfullyplayingthepiano - https://www.instagram.com/colorfullyplayingthepiano/
- Dalcroze Education - https://dalcrozeusa.org/about-dalcroze/what-is-dalcroze/
Quotes:
- "My mission statement at my own school is to make music as accessible and far-reaching as possible. My main focus in 1-1 lessons is definitely what I call my graffiti analysis of the score and in group teaching its casting. I am fortunate that my subject by its very nature is creative and innovative."
Links
- The Rockwell Music Academy - https://rockwellcollegemusicacademy.com/
- Email -suzanne.buttimer@buttimer.ie
- Phone - 00 353 87 231 0136
- Mel Mercier – Playing the bones - https://meettheartist.online/2019/01/25/mel-mercier-composer/
Welcome to Season 2 of the Plus One podcast! More amazing educators sharing their stories and approaches to teaching and learning, to give the rest of us ideas for improving our own practice.
Suzanne Buttimer runs the Rockwell Music Academy, based in Cashel, County Tipperary. Suzanne is a different educator from any of my other guests – she teaches music, and everywhere but University & College, so we’re in a different educational space today, which is great!
What other websites or podcasts do you follow which inform you as an educator?
- Bressie - Where is my mind? - https://www.niallbreslin.com/copy-of-wake-up-wind-down
- Music for Kiddos Podcasts - https://www.musicforkiddos.com/blog
- Conservatoires - https://www.musicalchairs.info/ireland/conservatoires
- Artists, I am always networking and most recently with American Educator - Jodie Marie Fisher#colorfullyplayingthepiano - https://www.instagram.com/colorfullyplayingthepiano/
- Dalcroze Education - https://dalcrozeusa.org/about-dalcroze/what-is-dalcroze/
Quotes:
- "My mission statement at my own school is to make music as accessible and far-reaching as possible. My main focus in 1-1 lessons is definitely what I call my graffiti analysis of the score and in group teaching its casting. I am fortunate that my subject by its very nature is creative and innovative."
- “If you want a student to open up to you, you have to open up to them”
Links
- The Rockwell Music Academy - https://rockwellcollegemusicacademy.com/
- Email -suzanne.buttimer@buttimer.ie
- Phone - 00 353 87 231 0136
- Mel Mercier – Playing the bones - https://meettheartist.online/2019/01/25/mel-mercier-composer/
We discuss “bringing the passion” – the need to bring enthusiasm and energy to any class in order to engage the students. Performance as projection rather than being in-authentic. We’re not pretending, or acting, we’re projecting, bringing our authentic selves into the classroom, making the connection.
Being an “undercover Sherpa – “I'm not going to climb the mountain for you. But I'm going to show you where the path is. And I'm going to do my best to make sure you don't fall off the cliff. Getting them there, supporting them along the way. But it's not doing it for them. It's their learning experience.”
When I first asked Kathy to be on the podcast, she said “why do you want me on the podcast? Because I don't do anything in innovative…”. But Kathy and I have always utilised experiential learning in our teaching, and this is not common – it is still innovative.
A Doctorate focussed on making positive change for your students…
“The area I'm studying is about bringing that workplace learning into the classroom. Instead of farming our students out on internships to get those practical skills, why can't we help them get those practical skills along with the academic knowledge that they're acquiring?
Setting up a company project for your students
How can I improve my own practice? Will you just walk us through one of your company projects, because that's your experiential learning in action, isn't it?
“It can be very daunting. Absolutely. And I think what you need to have going in, is that you need to have a strong network. But you have to think about where am I going to get these projects from?
Charities and social enterprise - that's one of your undergrad modules, isn't it? What has charity got to do with business?
“It’s a great way for students to learn. There's a whole movement, all about community engaged learning. And we actually have a great group at UCD called CELT, all about community engaged learning and teaching. And it's a wonderful way to help universities to give back to the community, while their students learn at the same time.
The course I run is called Service Learning. And it's about doing a business project for a local nonprofit or charity.
Connections, CBIF and a new career focus…
I think what this is all showing me and actually, a lot of what the CBIF workshops showed me also is that I like helping other educators to look at their practice and improve their practice. I really like doing that. I want to teach the educators…
Favourite quotes about teaching:
- “Transformative learning shapes people. They are different afterward, in ways both they and others can recognize” (Carolyn Clark 1993)
- "Don't tell me you can't; tell me you'll try and I will show you, you can." ( personal trainer!)
- "Will it be easy? No. Will it be worth it? Absolutely."
Links:
- UCD CELT (Community Engaged Learning & Teaching
-
(https://www.ucd.ie/ucdinthecommunity/highlights/communityengagementaroundcampus/communityengagedlearningandteachingceltnetwork/
-
Kathy’s Service Learning module
-
https://youtu.be/Cqd04nU8K9
-
The Open Door Centre in Bray
-
https://www.opendoor.ie/
-
College of Business Intercultural Forum (CBIF)
-
http://cbif.ucd.ie/
-
Ripen – connecting university classes with companies for experiential learning
- https://ripen.com/
We discuss “bringing the passion” – the need to bring enthusiasm and energy to any class in order to engage the students. Performance as projection rather than being in-authentic. We’re not pretending, or acting, we’re projecting, bringing our authentic selves into the classroom, making the connection.
Being an “undercover Sherpa – “I'm not going to climb the mountain for you. But I'm going to show you where the path is. And I'm going to do my best to make sure you don't fall off the cliff. Getting them there, supporting them along the way. But it's not doing it for them. It's their learning experience.”
When I first asked Kathy to be on the podcast, she said “why do you want me on the podcast? Because I don't do anything in innovative…”. But Kathy and I have always utilised experiential learning in our teaching, and this is not common – it is still innovative.
A Doctorate focussed on making positive change for your students…
“The area I'm studying is about bringing that workplace learning into the classroom. Instead of farming our students out on internships to get those practical skills, why can't we help them get those practical skills along with the academic knowledge that they're acquiring?
Setting up a company project for your students
How can I improve my own practice? Will you just walk us through one of your company projects, because that's your experiential learning in action, isn't it?
“It can be very daunting. Absolutely. And I think what you need to have going in, is that you need to have a strong network. But you have to think about where am I going to get these projects from?
Charities and social enterprise - that's one of your undergrad modules, isn't it? What has charity got to do with business?
“It’s a great way for students to learn. There's a whole movement, all about community engaged learning. And we actually have a great group at UCD called CELT, all about community engaged learning and teaching. And it's a wonderful way to help universities to give back to the community, while their students learn at the same time.
The course I run is called Service Learning. And it's about doing a business project for a local nonprofit or charity.
Connections, CBIF and a new career focus…
I think what this is all showing me and actually, a lot of what the CBIF workshops showed me also is that I like helping other educators to look at their practice and improve their practice. I really like doing that. I want to teach the educators…
Favourite quotes about teaching:
- “Transformative learning shapes people. They are different afterward, in ways both they and others can recognize” (Carolyn Clark 1993)
- "Don't tell me you can't; tell me you'll try and I will show you, you can." ( personal trainer!)
- "Will it be easy? No. Will it be worth it? Absolutely."
Links:
- UCD CELT (Community Engaged Learning & Teaching
-
(https://www.ucd.ie/ucdinthecommunity/highlights/communityengagementaroundcampus/communityengagedlearningandteachingceltnetwork/
-
Kathy’s Service Learning module
-
https://youtu.be/Cqd04nU8K9
-
The Open Door Centre in Bray
-
https://www.opendoor.ie/
-
College of Business Intercultural Forum (CBIF)
-
http://cbif.ucd.ie/
-
Ripen – connecting university classes with companies for experiential learning
- https://ripen.com/
My guest for episode 15 is Tomás Ó Ruairc, who wears many hats! He is amongst other things, CEO of the Teaching Council of Ireland, a poet and writer, and has a varied career in teaching and more recently educational leadership. He co-hosts the “Lighting a Fire” podcast series, hosts the Learning for All webinars, and produces a wonderful blog “Bazinga” which I now look forward to seeing in my feeds as it’s always so beautifully written and researched.
My guest for episode 15 is Tomás Ó Ruairc, who wears many hats! He is amongst other things, CEO of the Teaching Council of Ireland, a poet and writer, and has a varied career in teaching and more recently educational leadership. He co-hosts the “Lighting a Fire” podcast series, hosts the Learning for All webinars, and produces a wonderful blog “Bazinga” which I now look forward to seeing in my feeds as it’s always so beautifully written and researched.
We discuss “the more than…” , being bombed multiple times growing up, getting a Fulbright Scholarship and getting a chance to think and dream and grow. Working in big systems, but losing sight & connection with your own individual will.
Different phases of life – growing up in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, studying English & French in Dublin at Trinity College.
The “media years” - doing media training with TG4, working in media with the BBC, doing training, starting up the Northern Film Council – trying to help a dream come to life, and getting Ralph Fiennes to help – you only have to ask... Moving to London to direct the Second World Summit on Television for Children, setting up a consultancy company then working with Welsh broadcaster S4C.
The Dublin years – becoming Director of The Ark, A Cultural Centre for Children, coming home to look after ill parents.
Coach & mentor. The book “Zen mind, beginner’s mind” – come to things with a really open mind. We eat but don’t taste…
Eina’s book “To call myself beloved.” “It took me a huge amount of time, and every sort of energy and creative energy, and essentially, it's really about two themes. It's an experience of therapy, whether written from the client or the patient's perspective, you never get any other perspective. And it's also the second theme was about the troubles and the impact of the troubles that really has seen very little light of day.”
“I could not find a book that actually explained or described an experience of therapy that I could recognise everything was too posh, everything was too academic. Everything was always right. They didn't have the blood on the floor. It didn't have them. It didn't have the misunderstandings. And to me, that was essential.”
Quotations:
- “… a much deeper sense of, I am creative, and I am alive, and I am alive in my creativity...”
- “there's something about that fundamental experience of myself that I can actually be an agent of change. And actually, for many people, that ebbs away.”
- Starting the Northern Film Council – “…trying to help a dream come to life.. a part of that is the courage to try and the courage to experiment because it doesn't exist.”
- On Ralph Fiennes coming over to Belfast to deliver a workshop for children soon after winning his Oscar for The English Patient – “On the way back to the airport, I said to him, why did you say yes? And he said to me, well, you're the only person who's ever asked me. So you must have thought I could do it.”
- “…if you call out something in people, if you believe in people and also sometimes, just shut up. Just try it.”
- “I always worked on projects that did not exist, they had to be made exist. So this is where I became very interested in this kind of terrain of a dream. Yes, individual dreams, work dreams, organizational change. It doesn't yet exist. Can we make it exist?”
- “I am very interested in self-sabotage. I am very interested in the frozen moments where seemingly we can do nothing.”
- “…visual art, music, drama is that holistic way of looking at the world and experiencing the world. I really, I really love that… I don't like the narrow path.”
- “…this teacher told me how much he hated and felt bad about creativity. And he said, I know I'm blocking it for the children. And I thought that was incredibly brave and honest of him to say that… what he was saying was, I feel horrible about this. I don't feel happy and easy about it. And it was such a stunning moment. He really changed me.”
- “…what I realized in that moment was, forget trying to impose on teachers, things that are all mechanistic about, have you ticked this box or that box, forget it - for a while even. Just try and come alongside people and give people opportunities should they wish to explore themselves and their creativity. And from that will come…?”
- As a coach – “a lot of time with mentees, we're trying to make the frame. How am I framing the situation?”
- “…it's very important that the person knows, I'm going to back you. It doesn't matter to me, it can go pear-shaped, that does not matter. What am I learning? What am I practising? What am I experimenting? So that actually is a rich experience. And I can develop? We think that creativity, innovation and leadership is easy? No.”
- “I can be across several terrains at the same time. Yes, that is me.”
- “One of the fascinating things that we are discovering through online facilitation, you actually can have the same meaning.”
- “…we underestimate the visual capacity … people are speaking in images all the time. And images are often a way in, and they can enliven and enrich connection between people.”
- “Start the day with some connection to nature…if you can build in some space, for yourself, and that kind of capacity to self-nourish, self-reflect, take yourself seriously, take your creativity seriously. And the day will be as it will be…it sets the day differently.”
- “I really encourage you to go run around all the pitches.”
Links:
- Eina’s book “To Call Myself Beloved” – Amazon link - https://amzn.to/2V4dnp7
- “The Creative Self” – open evening for teachers run by The Ark in 2012 - https://ark.ie/events/view/open-evening-for-teachers
- Zen Mountain Monastery – New York - https://zmm.org/
- Anna O’Flanagan - Red Squirrel Team Building - https://www.linkedin.com/in/annatoflanagan/
Books:
- Zen mind, beginner’s mind - https://amzn.to/3i317OD
Eina’s Plus One
- Cultivating the capacity to visualise images is a powerful resource.
Call to action
- Start the day with some connection to nature…
We discuss “the more than…” , being bombed multiple times growing up, getting a Fulbright Scholarship and getting a chance to think and dream and grow. Working in big systems, but losing sight & connection with your own individual will.
Different phases of life – growing up in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, studying English & French in Dublin at Trinity College.
The “media years” - doing media training with TG4, working in media with the BBC, doing training, starting up the Northern Film Council – trying to help a dream come to life, and getting Ralph Fiennes to help – you only have to ask... Moving to London to direct the Second World Summit on Television for Children, setting up a consultancy company then working with Welsh broadcaster S4C.
The Dublin years – becoming Director of The Ark, A Cultural Centre for Children, coming home to look after ill parents.
Coach & mentor. The book “Zen mind, beginner’s mind” – come to things with a really open mind. We eat but don’t taste…
Eina’s book “To call myself beloved.” “It took me a huge amount of time, and every sort of energy and creative energy, and essentially, it's really about two themes. It's an experience of therapy, the written from the client or the patient's perspective, you never get any other perspective. And it's also the second theme was about the troubles and the impact of the troubles that really has seen very little light of day.”
“I could not find a book that actually explained or described an experience of therapy that I could recognise everything was too posh, everything was too academic. Everything was always right. They didn't have the blood on the floor. It didn't have them. It didn't have the misunderstandings. And to me, that was essential.”
Quotations:
- “… a much deeper sense of, I am creative, and I am alive, and I am alive in my creativity...”
- “there's something about that fundamental experience of myself that I can actually be an agent of change. And actually, for many people, that ebbs away.”
- Starting the Northern Film Council – “…trying to help a dream come to life.. a part of that is the courage to try and the courage to experiment because it doesn't exist.”
- On Ralph Fiennes coming over to Belfast to deliver a workshop for children soon after winning his Oscar for The English Patient – “On the way back to the airport, I said to him, why did you say yes? And he said to me, well, you're the only person who's ever asked me. So you must have thought I could do it.”
- “…if you call out something in people, if you believe in people and also sometimes, just shut up. Just try it.”
- “I always worked on projects that did not exist, they had to be made exist. So this is where I became very interested in this kind of terrain of a dream. Yes, individual dreams, work dreams, organizational change. It doesn't yet exist. Can we make it exist?”
- “I am very interested in self-sabotage. I am very interested in the frozen moments where seemingly we can do nothing.”
- “…visual art, music, drama is that holistic way of looking at the world and experiencing the world. I really, I really love that… I don't like the narrow path.”
- “…this teacher told me how much he hated and felt bad about creativity. And he said, I know I'm blocking it for the children. And I thought that was incredibly brave and honest of him to say that… what he was saying was, I feel horrible about this. I don't feel happy and easy about it. And it was such a stunning moment. He really changed me.”
- “…what I realized in that moment was, forget trying to impose on teachers, things that are all mechanistic about, have you ticked this box or that box, forget it - for a while even. Just try and come alongside people and give people opportunities should they wish to explore themselves and their creativity. And from that will come…?”
- As a coach – “a lot of time with mentees, we're trying to make the frame. How am I framing the situation?”
- “…it's very important that the person knows, I'm going to back you. It doesn't matter to me, it can go pear shaped, that does not matter. What am I learning? What am I practising? What am I experimenting? So that actually is a rich experience. And I can develop? We think that creativity, innovation and leadership is easy? No.”
- “I can be across several terrains at the same time. Yes, that is me.”
- “One of the fascinating things that we are discovering through online facilitation, you actually can have the same meaning.”
- “…we underestimate the visual capacity … people are speaking in images all the time. And images are often a way in, and they can enliven and enrich connection between people.”
- “Start the day with some connection to nature…if you can build in some space, for yourself, and that kind of capacity to self-nourish, self-reflect, take yourself seriously, take your creativity seriously. And the day will be as it will be…it sets the day differently.”
- “I really encourage you to go run around all the pitches.”
Links:
- Eina’s book “To Call Myself Beloved” – Amazon link - https://amzn.to/2V4dnp7
- “The Creative Self” – open evening for teachers run by The Ark in 2012 - https://ark.ie/events/view/open-evening-for-teachers
- Zen Mountain Monastery – New York - https://zmm.org/
- Anna O’Flanagan - Red Squirrel Team Building - https://www.linkedin.com/in/annatoflanagan/
Books:
- Zen mind, beginner’s mind - https://amzn.to/3i317OD
Eina’s Plus One
- Cultivating the capacity to visualise images is a powerful resource.
Call to action
- Start the day with some connection to nature…
We discuss inclusion as a key influencer on education, and how Belmullet, County Mayo is a great place for getting almost 100% of students into higher education. Removing barriers for students, becoming aware of the huge difference between urban & rural disadvantage.
Universal Design for Learning (UDL), for which Lisa is an internationally recognised expert. Teaching more senior & experienced people like a set of GP’s at age 23 – in the evenings, and core academic skills teaching for every student. Making Shakespearean Comedy accessible to a highly diverse group of students. Helping students understand how to focus their time to balance effort against the assessment weightings. The need to get rid of exams!
Reviewing the module & programme types of assessment to make sure they are diverse – not just based on written work for instance, to allow all types of learner to express themselves to their fullest potential. Reflecting the diversity of your student population in the course communications and materials.
Quotes:
“I’m always interested and curious to learn from students, in terms of how they experience higher education, because my experience is just one experience.”
“… most people haven’t been exposed to actually have to think about - how do I adjust my teaching to make sure that I’m including students with dyslexia, students with ADHD, students with dyspraxia…”
“…extra time in an exam… it’s not going to make up for the 12 weeks learning experience the student has had if they haven’t felt they were included in the classroom.”
Multiple modes of assessment – “If you want them to do a video, you need to teach them how to do a video. If they’ve only ever written essays, they’re going to continue to just write an essay…”
“We have to be teachers, but we have to be learners as well”
“Rubric development as a process… can help people get over the fear of a new type of assessment.”
Useful Links:
The UDL Digital Badge rollout – Sept 2021 – sign up here! https://www.ahead.ie/UDL-Badge-2021-Autumn
The Book of Margery Kempe - https://amzn.to/2UdTWKr
CELT (Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching) at NUI Galway - http://www.nuigalway.ie/centre-excellence-learning-teaching/
The DAWN Handbook – Teaching students with disabilities – Guidelines for Academic Staff - https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Ftrap.ncirl.ie%2F1009%2F1%2FDawn_webs.pdf
A Practitioner’s Guide to Choice of Assessment Methods within a Module, Dublin: UCD Teaching and Learning. (Geraldine O'Neill & Aine Galvin, 2011, Ed) – downloadable PDF - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/273716129_A_Practitioner's_Guide_to_Choice_of_Assessment_Methods_within_a_Module_Dublin_UCD_Teaching_and_Learning_O'Neill_2011_Ed
The Toolkit for Inclusive Higher Educational Institutions – Dr Lisa Padden & Dr Ann Kelly – downloadable PDF and online self-assessment tool -
https://www.ucd.ie/universityforall/resourcehub/toolkit/
UDL resources:
- CAST – cast.org
- AHEAD (association for Higher Education And Disability) - ahead.ie
- AT HIVE – Assistive Technology Resource - https://www.ahead.ie/ATHive
We discuss inclusion as a key influencer on education, and how Belmullet, County Mayo is a great place for getting almost 100% of students into higher education. Removing barriers for students, becoming aware of the huge difference between urban & rural disadvantage.
Universal Design for Learning (UDL), for which Lisa is an internationally recognised expert. Teaching more senior & experienced people like a set of GP’s at age 23 – in the evenings, and core academic skills teaching for every student. Making Shakespearean Comedy accessible to a highly diverse group of students. Helping students understand how to focus their time to balance effort against the assessment weightings. The need to get rid of exams!
Reviewing the module & programme types of assessment to make sure they are diverse – not just based on written work for instance, to allow all types of learner to express themselves to their fullest potential. Reflecting the diversity of your student population in the course communications and materials.
Quotes:
“I’m always interested and curious to learn from students, in terms of how they experience higher education, because my experience is just one experience.”
“… most people haven’t been exposed to actually have to think about - how do I adjust my teaching to make sure that I’m including students with dyslexia, students with ADHD, students with dyspraxia…”
“…extra time in an exam… it’s not going to make up for the 12 weeks learning experience the student has had if they haven’t felt they were included in the classroom.”
Multiple modes of assessment – “If you want them to do a video, you need to teach them how to do a video. If they’ve only ever written essays, they’re going to continue to just write an essay…”
“We have to be teachers, but we have to be learners as well”
“Rubric development as a process… can help people get over the fear of a new type of assessment.”
Useful Links:
The UDL Digital Badge rollout – Sept 2021 – sign up here! https://www.ahead.ie/UDL-Badge-2021-Autumn
The Book of Margery Kempe - https://amzn.to/2UdTWKr
CELT (Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching) at NUI Galway - http://www.nuigalway.ie/centre-excellence-learning-teaching/
The DAWN Handbook – Teaching students with disabilities – Guidelines for Academic Staff - https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Ftrap.ncirl.ie%2F1009%2F1%2FDawn_webs.pdf
A Practitioner’s Guide to Choice of Assessment Methods within a Module, Dublin: UCD Teaching and Learning. (Geraldine O'Neill & Aine Galvin, 2011, Ed) – downloadable PDF - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/273716129_A_Practitioner's_Guide_to_Choice_of_Assessment_Methods_within_a_Module_Dublin_UCD_Teaching_and_Learning_O'Neill_2011_Ed
The Toolkit for Inclusive Higher Educational Institutions – Dr Lisa Padden & Dr Ann Kelly – downloadable PDF and online self-assessment tool -
https://www.ucd.ie/universityforall/resourcehub/toolkit/
UDL resources:
- CAST – cast.org
- AHEAD (association for Higher Education And Disability) - ahead.ie
- AT HIVE – Assistive Technology Resource - https://www.ahead.ie/ATHive
We discuss transitioning from business into education, “finding your element”, loving what you do. How Montessori techniques are still working, why creativity and innovative teaching engages and fosters a mindset change. The transition from sage on stage lecturer to facilitator – and how difficult this can be. Avoiding banana-skins, and co-creating learning.
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Gary Ridge – CEO of WD40 – 4 concepts around the mindset for leadership:
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Collaboration
- Inclusivity
- Being purpose driven
- Always be in a learning mode
- Robert Greenleaf – Servant Leadership – https://www.greenleaf.org/what-is-servant-leadership/
- Clay Christiansen – Harvard – disruptive innovation - https://hbr.org/2015/12/what-is-disruptive-innovation
- Andria Zafirakou – winner of the 2018 Global Teacher Prize - https://www.globalteacherprize.org/person?id=4090
- High Tech High - https://www.hightechhigh.org/
- California Polytechnic (Cal Poly) - https://www.calpoly.edu/ - “learn by doing”
- Big picture learning - https://www.bigpicture.org/
- London Interdisciplinary School - https://www.londoninterdisciplinaryschool.org/
- IBAT College - https://www.ibat.ie/
- The Hero’s Journey – John Campbell - https://amzn.to/36xmQHS
Books:
- Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly - https://amzn.to/3i3tkDI
- World Class Learners: Educating Creative and Entrepreneurial Students by Zong Zhao - https://amzn.to/3k5vaqs
- Effectuation: Elements of Entrepreneurial Expertise by Saras D. Sarasvathy - https://amzn.to/3AS8uzS
The fundamental world view for effectuation is called the Pilot-in-the-plane, which describes the future as something you can influence by your actions, i.e. you can create your own opportunities.
The four principles of effectuation are:
- Bird-in-Hand: You have to create solutions with the resources available here and now.
- Lemonade principle: Mistakes and surprises are inevitable and can be used to look for new opportunities.
- Crazy Quilt: Entering into new partnerships can bring the project new funds and new directions.
- Affordable loss: You should only invest as much as you are willing to lose.
Ref: https://innovationenglish.sites.ku.dk/model/sarasvathy-effectuation/
Podcasts:
Inside education – Episode 38 interviewing Professor Zong Zhao - https://insideeducation.podbean.com/e/programme-398-yong-zhao-on-globalisation-technology-entrepreneurship-education-25-4-20/
Quotes:
“Creative leadership is about challenging the status quo. It’s about believing in the way we actually can think differently.”
“I’ve seen these educators go back to their classrooms and they fundamentally change what they do, and re-imagine education in a way that’s better.”
“The first challenge is the system, the second is the people who work in the system…”
Quoting a recent round-table with Andreas Schleicher at the UCD Innovation Academy – “It’s up to the teaching profession to change the teaching profession – don’t be waiting for Govt. policy. Change from the grass-roots, and then that will inform policy…”
Call to action – look deeply into what you are currently doing, and ask – is this working and could I do it better? Reflect on your own practice, and engage more in an experiential learning model.
The UCD Innovation Academy Professional Certificate/Diploma in Creativity & Innovation in Education is at https://www.innovators.ie/creativity-and-innovation-for-education/
We discuss transitioning from business into education, “finding your element”, loving what you do. How Montessori techniques are still working, why creativity and innovative teaching engages and fosters a mindset change. The transition from sage on stage lecturer to facilitator – and how difficult this can be. Avoiding banana-skins, and co-creating learning.
-
Gary Ridge – CEO of WD40 – 4 concepts around the mindset for leadership:
-
Collaboration
- Inclusivity
- Being purpose driven
- Always be in a learning mode
- Robert Greenleaf – Servant Leadership – https://www.greenleaf.org/what-is-servant-leadership/
- Clay Christiansen – Harvard – disruptive innovation - https://hbr.org/2015/12/what-is-disruptive-innovation
- Andria Zafirakou – winner of the 2018 Global Teacher Prize - https://www.globalteacherprize.org/person?id=4090
- High Tech High - https://www.hightechhigh.org/
- California Polytechnic (Cal Poly) - https://www.calpoly.edu/ - “learn by doing”
- Big picture learning - https://www.bigpicture.org/
- London Interdisciplinary School - https://www.londoninterdisciplinaryschool.org/
- IBAT College - https://www.ibat.ie/
- The Hero’s Journey – John Campbell - https://amzn.to/36xmQHS
Books:
- Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly - https://amzn.to/3i3tkDI
- World Class Learners: Educating Creative and Entrepreneurial Students by Zong Zhao - https://amzn.to/3k5vaqs
- Effectuation: Elements of Entrepreneurial Expertise by Saras D. Sarasvathy - https://amzn.to/3AS8uzS
The fundamental world view for effectuation is called the Pilot-in-the-plane, which describes the future as something you can influence by your actions, i.e. you can create your own opportunities.
The four principles of effectuation are:
- Bird-in-Hand: You have to create solutions with the resources available here and now.
- Lemonade principle: Mistakes and surprises are inevitable and can be used to look for new opportunities.
- Crazy Quilt: Entering into new partnerships can bring the project new funds and new directions.
- Affordable loss: You should only invest as much as you are willing to lose.
Ref: https://innovationenglish.sites.ku.dk/model/sarasvathy-effectuation/
Podcasts:
Inside education – Episode 38 interviewing Professor Zong Zhao - https://insideeducation.podbean.com/e/programme-398-yong-zhao-on-globalisation-technology-entrepreneurship-education-25-4-20/
Quotes:
“Creative leadership is about challenging the status quo. It’s about believing in the way we actually can think differently.”
“I’ve seen these educators go back to their classrooms and they fundamentally change what they do, and re-imagine education in a way that’s better.”
“The first challenge is the system, the second is the people who work in the system…”
Quoting a recent round-table with Andreas Schleicher at the UCD Innovation Academy – “It’s up to the teaching profession to change the teaching profession – don’t be waiting for Govt. policy. Change from the grass-roots, and then that will inform policy…”
Call to action – look deeply into what you are currently doing, and ask – is this working and could I do it better? Reflect on your own practice, and engage more in an experiential learning model.
The UCD Innovation Academy Professional Certificate/Diploma in Creativity & Innovation in Education is at https://www.innovators.ie/creativity-and-innovation-for-education/
We discuss genetic makeup, nature vs nurture, teaching exposing you to different perspectives, layers of diversity. Education giving us curiosity, agility, enquiry. Having a terrible memory, and following your nose… The opportunity to give global perspective education without travelling. The process of discovery through writing… refining the thinking, taking away the words, focussing the ideas… Taking ideas from different disciplines and applying them to education, and contributing to the dialogue, to the idea generation. We explore the process of matchmaking which Stephanie facilitates through COIL, the skeleton protocol that educators and students plug into. Icebreaking experiences,
Stephanie’s Plus One is icebreakers – exploring perspectives and leading into the collaborative task/experience. Designing tasks with power equality, which requires everyone, and how are ideas exchanged and connected. Directing students to connect all their ideas to co-create the outcome, and then mindfully reflecting on the outcome, because the learning happens in the reflection.
“Collaboration doesn’t happen by default – it happens by design”.
“Your way of seeing things is not the only way, and we can benefit from seeing things differently.”
Getting to “The leanest, meanest way to say the thing”
“It’s not about what to think, but how to think”
“Global learning is a process that involves diverse people… in collaborative efforts… to understand, analyse and address complex problems that transcend borders.”
- Stephanie’s book – “Making Global Learning Universal” - https://www.stephaniedoscher.com/book/
- The Making Global Learning Universal podcast – hosted by Stephanie - https://globallearningpodcast.fiu.edu/
- Season 2 Episode 4: Tara Harvey on the Relationship Between Intercultural Learning and Global Learning - https://globallearningpodcast.fiu.edu/season-2/episode-4-tara-harvey/index.html
- Season 2 Episode 9: Daniel Griffith on Intergroup Dialogue - https://globallearningpodcast.fiu.edu/season-2/episode-9-daniel-griffiths/index.html
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Florida International University - Collaborative Online International Learning COIL - https://global.fiu.edu/for-faculty-staff/coil/
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https://www.23andme.com – genetic testing online
- “You’ve got to be carefully taught” – South Pacific (1949), sung by James Taylor - https://youtu.be/RvpyKWvdmWI
- Julian Treasure – TED talk – 5 ways to listen better - https://www.ted.com/talks/julian_treasure_5_ways_to_listen_better
- Montessori - https://montessori-ami.org/resource-library/facts/biography-maria-montessori
- Margaret Wheatley - book called LEADERSHIP AND THE NEW SCIENCE. She created the idea of "Warriors for the Human Spirit." https://amzn.to/3zXO5ZT
- Doreen Starke-Meyerring, who innovated the idea of globally networked learning in the book DESIGNING GLOBALLY-NETWORKED LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS: Visionary Partnerships, Policies, and Pedagogies. https://amzn.to/3A5dLUg
- Scott Page – Wharton Professor – How Diverse Teams work – podcast episode - https://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/great-teams-diversity/
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His book “The Diversity Bonus” - https://amzn.to/35V01h7
-
NAFSA – Association of International Educators - https://www.nafsa.org/
- AIEA - The Association of International Education Administrators - https://www.aieaworld.org/
- EAIE – The European Association for International Education - https://www.eaie.org/
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SEITAR – Society for Intercultural Education, Training & Research - https://www.sietareu.org/
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Gabriel Hawawini – INSEAD - https://www.insead.edu/faculty-research/faculty/gabriel-hawawini defined internationalization as “It’s about connecting the institution and the people in it to the world’s knowledge exchange and production network”
We discuss genetic makeup, nature vs nurture, teaching exposing you to different perspectives, layers of diversity. Education giving us curiosity, agility, enquiry. Having a terrible memory, and following your nose… The opportunity to give global perspective education without travelling. The process of discovery through writing… refining the thinking, taking away the words, focussing the ideas… Taking ideas from different disciplines and applying them to education, and contributing to the dialogue, to the idea generation. We explore the process of matchmaking which Stephanie facilitates through COIL, the skeleton protocol that educators and students plug into. Icebreaking experiences,
Stephanie’s Plus One is icebreakers – exploring perspectives and leading into the collaborative task/experience. Designing tasks with power equality, which requires everyone, and how are ideas exchanged and connected. Directing students to connect all their ideas to co-create the outcome, and then mindfully reflecting on the outcome, because the learning happens in the reflection.
“Collaboration doesn’t happen by default – it happens by design”.
“Your way of seeing things is not the only way, and we can benefit from seeing things differently.”
Getting to “The leanest, meanest way to say the thing”
“It’s not about what to think, but how to think”
“Global learning is a process that involves diverse people… in collaborative efforts… to understand, analyse and address complex problems that transcend borders.”
- Stephanie’s book – “Making Global Learning Universal” - https://www.stephaniedoscher.com/book/
- The Making Global Learning Universal podcast – hosted by Stephanie - https://globallearningpodcast.fiu.edu/
- Season 2 Episode 4: Tara Harvey on the Relationship Between Intercultural Learning and Global Learning - https://globallearningpodcast.fiu.edu/season-2/episode-4-tara-harvey/index.html
- Season 2 Episode 9: Daniel Griffith on Intergroup Dialogue - https://globallearningpodcast.fiu.edu/season-2/episode-9-daniel-griffiths/index.html
-
Florida International University - Collaborative Online International Learning COIL - https://global.fiu.edu/for-faculty-staff/coil/
-
https://www.23andme.com – genetic testing online
- “You’ve got to be carefully taught” – South Pacific (1949), sung by James Taylor - https://youtu.be/RvpyKWvdmWI
- Julian Treasure – TED talk – 5 ways to listen better - https://www.ted.com/talks/julian_treasure_5_ways_to_listen_better
- Montessori - https://montessori-ami.org/resource-library/facts/biography-maria-montessori
- Margaret Wheatley - book called LEADERSHIP AND THE NEW SCIENCE. She created the idea of "Warriors for the Human Spirit." https://amzn.to/3zXO5ZT
- Doreen Starke-Meyerring, who innovated the idea of globally networked learning in the book DESIGNING GLOBALLY-NETWORKED LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS: Visionary Partnerships, Policies, and Pedagogies. https://amzn.to/3A5dLUg
- Scott Page – Wharton Professor – How Diverse Teams work – podcast episode - https://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/great-teams-diversity/
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His book “The Diversity Bonus” - https://amzn.to/35V01h7
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NAFSA – Association of International Educators - https://www.nafsa.org/
- AIEA - The Association of International Education Administrators - https://www.aieaworld.org/
- EAIE – The European Association for International Education - https://www.eaie.org/
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SEITAR – Society for Intercultural Education, Training & Research - https://www.sietareu.org/
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Gabriel Hawawini – INSEAD - https://www.insead.edu/faculty-research/faculty/gabriel-hawawini defined internationalization as “It’s about connecting the institution and the people in it to the world’s knowledge exchange and production network”
We discuss Linda’s journey from Harbin China, through London, Durham and then to Dublin. Changes in direction – academic to the practical, English language to intercultural studies, the hidden curriculum and the fundamental purpose of education. It’s about attitude – learning never ends – faculty development is so important. Establishing communities of practice, formal & informal learning. Use frameworks for teaching & learning – like UDL. Adding diversity of teaching cases from different cultures into your curriculum, & personalising the learning journey for students. But… diversity doesn’t guarantee integration. Growing the Intercultural Development programme to being the first programme of its kind to be made available to all postgrad students in the School. Key questions to ask your students in the end of term evaluations. Being inspired by Temple Grandin.
“If the student sees this as a value, then they will put more effort to it…”
Key end of term evaluation questions:
- What worked for you?
- What didn’t work, and why?
- What hasn’t been covered?
- What else needs to be included?
Linda’s Plus One
“Have empathy for your students…Don’t judge them – postpone your judgement. What can you do to help the student learn better? ”.
- Universal Design for Learning – UDL - https://www.cast.org/
- Hofstede Power Distance studies - https://www.hofstede-insights.com/
- Rob McEntarffer – Just Add Blank Slides - https://npjscilearncommunity.nature.com/posts/just-add-blank-slides-a-simple-remote-teaching-idea
- Linda, Kathy & Joe’s All Ireland Journal of Higher Education paper “Silver-lining of COVID-19: A Virtual Community of Practice for Faculty Development” - https://ojs.aishe.org/index.php/aishe-j/article/view/501
- Temple Grandin - https://www.templegrandin.com/
We discuss Linda’s journey from Harbin China, through London, Durham and then to Dublin. Changes in direction – academic to the practical, English language to intercultural studies, the hidden curriculum and the fundamental purpose of education. It’s about attitude – learning never ends – faculty development is so important. Establishing communities of practice, formal & informal learning. Use frameworks for teaching & learning – like UDL. Adding diversity of teaching cases from different cultures into your curriculum, & personalising the learning journey for students. But… diversity doesn’t guarantee integration. Growing the Intercultural Development programme to being the first programme of its kind to be made available to all postgrad students in the School. Key questions to ask your students in the end of term evaluations. Being inspired by Temple Grandin.
“If the student sees this as a value, then they will put more effort to it…”
Key end of term evaluation questions:
- What worked for you?
- What didn’t work, and why?
- What hasn’t been covered?
- What else needs to be included?
Linda’s Plus One
“Have empathy for your students…Don’t judge them – postpone your judgement. What can you do to help the student learn better? ”.
- Universal Design for Learning – UDL - https://www.cast.org/
- Hofstede Power Distance studies - https://www.hofstede-insights.com/
- Rob McEntarffer – Just Add Blank Slides - https://npjscilearncommunity.nature.com/posts/just-add-blank-slides-a-simple-remote-teaching-idea
- Linda, Kathy & Joe’s All Ireland Journal of Higher Education paper “Silver-lining of COVID-19: A Virtual Community of Practice for Faculty Development” - https://ojs.aishe.org/index.php/aishe-j/article/view/501
- Temple Grandin - https://www.templegrandin.com/
Dr Dee McGillicuddy is a UCD Innovation Academy 2021 Fellow, recipient of UCD’s highest teaching award and has been nominated for a European teaching award for her Flourish Community initiative.
“For me, education is the foundation upon which we build our society. It’s the cornerstone of what we are doing. If we don’t have a strong education system with strong values to underpin what we’re doing, then we don’t understand who we are as a society, and we don’t understand who we are as human beings within the broader world as global citizens...”
“Nothing about us, without us” – giving space for the voice of any community to come forward. We discuss “the spaces in between”.
Growing up in a school of 12 pupils and 4 teachers, and always wanting to be a teacher, helping out as early as primary and post-primary school. How early inspirational teachers & mentors like Mr Keegan & Mr Murphy (he wasn’t afraid to let people take a risk) fed Dee’s fire for primary teaching – taking the scenic route through Arts and Geography, through an Hdip, Master’s and then a PhD.
“Is this making a difference?” is Dee’s touchstone… The cracks in the system are not very far below the surface – raising the national consciousness around the impacts of poverty, deprivation and difference. Even the physical size of children in disadvantaged vs more advantaged schools. Researching the Traveller community and how marginalised, watched and surveilled they are.
Concerns around the commodification & marketization of education – of education as a service, of the loss of relationship, active dynamic learning through meaningful interactions.
Through Dee’s work with the UCD Innovation Academy, creating and promoting the Flourish community of practice for wellbeing and creativity in education – which has won UCD teaching awards and been nominated for European level awards. “A tiny pebble dropped into the educational system – ripples down into people’s lives…”
Contact Dee
On Twitter (@deemcgillicuddy), on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/deirdre-mcgillicuddy-4b9a91105/ or by email at deirdre.mcgillicuddy@ucd.ie
Links
- Video of Dee presenting the Flourish community of practice for wellbeing and creativity in education - https://vimeo.com/463781936
- Twelve things Covid-19 has taught us about education and schooling – Irish Times article by Dee published June 30th 2020 - https://www.irishtimes.com/news/education/twelve-things-covid-19-has-taught-us-about-education-and-schooling-1.4285253
- The Children’s Rights Alliance - https://www.childrensrights.ie/
- Tribe mental health charity - https://www.tribecharity.com/
- National Council for Curriculum & Assessment - https://ncca.ie/en
- Marino Institute of Education - https://www.mie.ie/en/
- The Convention on the rights of the child - https://childrensrights.ie/childrens-rights-ireland/un-convention-rights-child
- Professor Laura Lundy - https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/laura-lundy
- Dr Shane Bergin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/shane-bergin-2545315
- Brené Brown - https://brenebrown.com/
- The Teaching Council - https://www.teachingcouncil.ie/en/
Dr Dee McGillicuddy is a UCD Innovation Academy 2021 Fellow, recipient of UCD’s highest teaching award and has been nominated for a European teaching award for her Flourish Community initiative.
“For me, education is the foundation upon which we build our society. It’s the cornerstone of what we are doing. If we don’t have a strong education system with strong values to underpin what we’re doing, then we don’t understand who we are as a society, and we don’t understand who we are as human beings within the broader world as global citizens...”
“Nothing about us, without us” – giving space for the voice of any community to come forward. We discuss “the spaces in between”.
Growing up in a school of 12 pupils and 4 teachers, and always wanting to be a teacher, helping out as early as primary and post-primary school. How early inspirational teachers & mentors like Mr Keegan & Mr Murphy (he wasn’t afraid to let people take a risk) fed Dee’s fire for primary teaching – taking the scenic route through Arts and Geography, through an Hdip, Master’s and then a PhD.
“Is this making a difference?” is Dee’s touchstone… The cracks in the system are not very far below the surface – raising the national consciousness around the impacts of poverty, deprivation and difference. Even the physical size of children in disadvantaged vs more advantaged schools. Researching the Traveller community and how marginalised, watched and surveilled they are.
Concerns around the commodification & marketization of education – of education as a service, of the loss of relationship, active dynamic learning through meaningful interactions.
Through Dee’s work with the UCD Innovation Academy, creating and promoting the Flourish community of practice for wellbeing and creativity in education – which has won UCD teaching awards and been nominated for European level awards. “A tiny pebble dropped into the educational system – ripples down into people’s lives…”
Contact Dee
On Twitter (@deemcgillicuddy), on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/deirdre-mcgillicuddy-4b9a91105/ or by email at deirdre.mcgillicuddy@ucd.ie
Links
- Video of Dee presenting the Flourish community of practice for wellbeing and creativity in education - https://vimeo.com/463781936
- Twelve things Covid-19 has taught us about education and schooling – Irish Times article by Dee published June 30th 2020 - https://www.irishtimes.com/news/education/twelve-things-covid-19-has-taught-us-about-education-and-schooling-1.4285253
- The Children’s Rights Alliance - https://www.childrensrights.ie/
- Tribe mental health charity - https://www.tribecharity.com/
- National Council for Curriculum & Assessment - https://ncca.ie/en
- Marino Institute of Education - https://www.mie.ie/en/
- The Convention on the rights of the child - https://childrensrights.ie/childrens-rights-ireland/un-convention-rights-child
- Professor Laura Lundy - https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/laura-lundy
- Dr Shane Bergin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/shane-bergin-2545315
- Brené Brown - https://brenebrown.com/
- The Teaching Council - https://www.teachingcouncil.ie/en/
We discuss how a brand-new suicide awareness campaign and short training introduced in Ireland in December 2020 has been taken by over a quarter of a million people so far, and has resulted in Ohana Zero Suicide being included in European Parliament consultations around European Good Mental Health – joining the dots and establishing European collaboration. How a team of 16 volunteers have taken a short, impactful training and through connections and viral publicity, have created a movement, helping huge numbers of people and saving lives.
And they’ve done this all through their own, self-funding. Now they are looking for external funders and support to turn this amazing success into even wider reach – so if you can help, please get in touch at ohanazerosuicide@gmail.com or www.ohana.ie
What other websites or podcasts do you follow which inform you as an educator?
https://play.acast.com/s/the-andy-rowe-show/neuroscientist-dr.taraswart
https://www.zerosuicidealliance.com/ZSA-Resources
And your Plus One?
Go to our website www.ohana.ie, complete our free training and encourage others to do it too.
Show you Care. Ask the Question. Make the Call.
We discuss how a brand-new suicide awareness campaign and short training introduced in Ireland in December 2020 has been taken by over a quarter of a million people so far, and has resulted in Ohana Zero Suicide being included in European Parliament consultations around European Good Mental Health – joining the dots and establishing European collaboration. How a team of 16 volunteers have taken a short, impactful training and through connections and viral publicity, have created a movement, helping huge numbers of people and saving lives.
And they’ve done this all through their own, self-funding. Now they are looking for external funders and support to turn this amazing success into even wider reach – so if you can help, please get in touch at ohanazerosuicide@gmail.com or www.ohana.ie
What other websites or podcasts do you follow which inform you as an educator?
https://play.acast.com/s/the-andy-rowe-show/neuroscientist-dr.taraswart
https://www.zerosuicidealliance.com/ZSA-Resources
And your Plus One?
Go to our website www.ohana.ie, complete our free training and encourage others to do it too.
Show you Care. Ask the Question. Make the Call.
“Sharing what we make – the power of project-based learning”… We discuss how a Geordie musician from Jarrow who left school at 16 with a wooden plant-holder has survived 2 bouts of cancer, written 2 best-selling books on educational innovation as a self-taught author, and is now collaborating on a multi-media toolkit as a followup to “The Power of Us”. Hear about one of the most amazing school’s in the world – the Líger Leadership Academy in Cambodia. How a good editor improves your work, and why deadlines help focus. How do we fix education to enable the young people who can change the world through informal learning & just doing it? Working with Paul McCartney in Liverpool heading up the Institute of Performing Arts, helping start-up Musical Futures, setting up ripple effects. Influencing change through books, but also engaging with educators in innovative spaces like the UCD Innovation Academy.
Plus one – reach out to local organizations and tie your student projects in with real issues, like Austin’s Butterfly… Yes, get out in the world, BUT also… “Above all, compassion”.
“You’ve got to try and do something. It’s no good just complaining about the education system – get in there and do what you can to change it.”
“The Power of Us” – https://amzn.to/2RGaklJ
“Open” – https://amzn.to/344rw79
“Education Forward” - https://amzn.to/3uboRTx
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidpriceobe/
All new, revamped website available: davidpriceobe.com
Twitter: @davidpriceobe
LinkedIn: David Price OBE
Order The Power Of Us here:
- AMZ: https://buff.ly/3fhJRl5
- Apple: https://buff.ly/3fh1qBL
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Power of Us Interviews: on Edufuturists Channel
Facebook: Engaged Learning Online
YouTube channel
Musical Futures - https://www.musicalfutures.org/
Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts - https://lipa.ac.uk/
Learning Futures - https://www.phf.org.uk/programmes/learning-futures/
UCD Innovation Academy - https://www.innovators.ie/
Líger Leadership Academy – Phnom Penh - http://www.ligeracademy.org/
Sofia Leal – 16 year old inventor of the Neigloo interviewed on YouTube - https://youtu.be/KAaYX1hJOjA
Avi Shiffmann - 17 year old inventor of the world’s most popular covid-tracking website - https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/06/12/1002838/avi-schiffmann-17-year-old-guide-building-pandemic-protest-tracker/
Austin’s butterfly - https://youtu.be/hqh1MRWZjms
“Sharing what we make – the power of project-based learning”… We discuss how a Geordie musician from Jarrow who left school at 16 with a wooden plant-holder has survived 2 bouts of cancer, written 2 best-selling books on educational innovation as a self-taught author, and is now collaborating on a multi-media toolkit as a followup to “The Power of Us”. Hear about one of the most amazing school’s in the world – the Líger Leadership Academy in Cambodia. How a good editor improves your work, and why deadlines help focus. How do we fix education to enable the young people who can change the world through informal learning & just doing it? Working with Paul McCartney in Liverpool heading up the Institute of Performing Arts, helping start-up Musical Futures, setting up ripple effects. Influencing change through books, but also engaging with educators in innovative spaces like the UCD Innovation Academy.
Plus one – reach out to local organizations and tie your student projects in with real issues, like Austin’s Butterfly… Yes, get out in the world, BUT also… “Above all, compassion”.
“You’ve got to try and do something. It’s no good just complaining about the education system – get in there and do what you can to change it.”
“The Power of Us” – https://amzn.to/2RGaklJ
“Open” – https://amzn.to/344rw79
“Education Forward” - https://amzn.to/3uboRTx
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidpriceobe/
All new, revamped website available: davidpriceobe.com
Twitter: @davidpriceobe
LinkedIn: David Price OBE
Order The Power Of Us here:
- AMZ: https://buff.ly/3fhJRl5
- Apple: https://buff.ly/3fh1qBL
- Kobo: https://buff.ly/2Ze6Nfd
Power of Us Interviews: on Edufuturists Channel
Facebook: Engaged Learning Online
YouTube channel
Musical Futures - https://www.musicalfutures.org/
Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts - https://lipa.ac.uk/
Learning Futures - https://www.phf.org.uk/programmes/learning-futures/
UCD Innovation Academy - https://www.innovators.ie/
Líger Leadership Academy – Phnom Penh - http://www.ligeracademy.org/
Sofia Leal – 16 year old inventor of the Neigloo interviewed on YouTube - https://youtu.be/KAaYX1hJOjA
Avi Shiffmann - 17 year old inventor of the world’s most popular covid-tracking website - https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/06/12/1002838/avi-schiffmann-17-year-old-guide-building-pandemic-protest-tracker/
Austin’s butterfly - https://youtu.be/hqh1MRWZjms
Lillian Nave is the podcast host for the Think UDL podcast, and UDL Coordinator & Senior Lecturer at Appalachian State University in North Carolina, USA.
We discuss inspirational influences, Tracy Chapman, art history, falling into jobs, the growing network for UDL practitioners and researchers, great teaching tips, providing choice of media, and getting outside the classroom.
Inspiring people:
- Michael J. Lewis - https://art.williams.edu/profile/mlewis/
- Eric Moore – https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Finnospire.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2020%2F02%2FDr.-Eric-J-Moore-3.pdf
- Jen Pusateri – https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennifer-pusateri/
Recommended podcasts:
- Tea for teaching – http://teaforteaching.com/
- Teaching in Higher Ed – https://teachinginhighered.com/episodes/
- Leading Lines - https://leadinglinespod.com/
Lilian’s Plus One
Build in asynchronous options, for students who miss a Zoom or a class. Have a plan for them to get what they missed so students aren't penalized for missing, but they learn the same thing from watching the recording and responding to something from the synchronous session.
Lillian’s podcast - Think UDL - https://thinkudl.org/
Other stuff to check out:
On Twitter - #UDLHE
Lillian Nave is the podcast host for the Think UDL podcast, and UDL Coordinator & Senior Lecturer at Appalachian State University in North Carolina, USA.
We discuss inspirational influences, Tracy Chapman, art history, falling into jobs, the growing network for UDL practitioners and researchers, great teaching tips, providing choice of media, and getting outside the classroom.
Inspiring people:
- Michael J. Lewis - https://art.williams.edu/profile/mlewis/
- Eric Moore – https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Finnospire.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2020%2F02%2FDr.-Eric-J-Moore-3.pdf
- Jen Pusateri – https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennifer-pusateri/
Recommended podcasts:
- Tea for teaching – http://teaforteaching.com/
- Teaching in Higher Ed – https://teachinginhighered.com/episodes/
- Leading Lines - https://leadinglinespod.com/
Lilian’s Plus One
Build in asynchronous options, for students who miss a Zoom or a class. Have a plan for them to get what they missed so students aren't penalized for missing, but they learn the same thing from watching the recording and responding to something from the synchronous session.
Lillian’s podcast - Think UDL - https://thinkudl.org/
Other stuff to check out:
On Twitter - #UDLHE
“Diversity works…”. A fascinating insight into how the EU educational space will affect educators in all spheres and what’s coming for us all as opportunities to engage, collaborate and co-create across Europe.
We talk about starting in a small rural school in the West of Ireland, working with The Ark, seizing opportunities when they come along, and the transformational experience of doing a Doctorate in Education. Leo’s work in helping to establish the European Education Area to promote co-operation in education across Europe. Equity, Access & Inclusion policy, and the European Universities Initiative & Erasmus – innovative partnership between institutions on co-created programmes, different forms of learning sharing expertise from different bodies. What Ireland brings to the international stage, connecting working teacher experience with what’s coming down the line from European policy and how it might affect us, or offer opportunities. The Teacher Academies coming on stream in the next few years to help teachers co-create and network across 27 member states, and how these European programmes will be actively seeking contributions from the grassroots – from educators like you and me.
Leo’s Plus One
A strategy of “problem solving calls” with one of two other people working outside education, to touch base once a month or so, to get different eyes from other sectors on what I’m doing or facing.
Links
The EU Universities Initiative - https://ec.europa.eu/education/education-in-the-eu/european-education-area/european-universities-initiative_en
The EU Education Area - https://ec.europa.eu/education/education-in-the-eu/european-education-area/
Erasmus+ Teacher Academies - https://ec.europa.eu/programmes/erasmus-plus/programme-guide/part-b/key-action-2/partnerships-cooperation/erasmus-teacher-academies_en
Small Scale Partnerships - https://ec.europa.eu/programmes/erasmus-plus/programme-guide/part-b/key-action-2/partnerships-cooperation/small-scale-partnerships_en
Contact Leo on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-leo-kilroy-5756a342/
“Diversity works…”. A fascinating insight into how the EU educational space will affect educators in all spheres and what’s coming for us all as opportunities to engage, collaborate and co-create across Europe.
We talk about starting in a small rural school in the West of Ireland, working with The Ark, seizing opportunities when they come along, and the transformational experience of doing a Doctorate in Education. Leo’s work in helping to establish the European Education Area to promote co-operation in education across Europe. Equity, Access & Inclusion policy, and the European Universities Initiative & Erasmus – innovative partnership between institutions on co-created programmes, different forms of learning sharing expertise from different bodies. What Ireland brings to the international stage, connecting working teacher experience with what’s coming down the line from European policy and how it might affect us, or offer opportunities. The Teacher Academies coming on stream in the next few years to help teachers co-create and network across 27 member states, and how these European programmes will be actively seeking contributions from the grassroots – from educators like you and me.
Leo’s Plus One
A strategy of “problem solving calls” with one of two other people working outside education, to touch base once a month or so, to get different eyes from other sectors on what I’m doing or facing.
Links
The EU Universities Initiative - https://ec.europa.eu/education/education-in-the-eu/european-education-area/european-universities-initiative_en
The EU Education Area - https://ec.europa.eu/education/education-in-the-eu/european-education-area/
Erasmus+ Teacher Academies - https://ec.europa.eu/programmes/erasmus-plus/programme-guide/part-b/key-action-2/partnerships-cooperation/erasmus-teacher-academies_en
Small Scale Partnerships - https://ec.europa.eu/programmes/erasmus-plus/programme-guide/part-b/key-action-2/partnerships-cooperation/small-scale-partnerships_en
Contact Leo on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-leo-kilroy-5756a342/
In a packed and wide-ranging discussion Dr. Lollie Mancey discusses loving what you do, her sqiggle career, fire & glitter, drag queens in Honduras, Latin, achieving the impossible, not moving to Canada, banana bread, innovation, anthropology, entre & intrapreneurship, weddings, funerals, competitive story-telling and a radio show.
Lollie's Plus One
"Try doing something differently every day"
A book Lollie recommends:
Ivan Illich - Deschooling society (1971) - Amazon UK link - https://amzn.to/3gUriqv Podcasts Lollie recommends: Education evolution Humble badass educators
Links to stuff mentioned:
The Postgraduate Certificate in Creativity, Innovation & Entrepreneurship - https://www.innovators.ie/springboard-adult-learning/ Deirdre Murphy - crime scene cleaning - https://www.linkedin.com/in/deirdre-murphy-acs Marry Me Ireland - http://www.marrymeireland.ie/ The Irish Institute of Celebrants - https://www.iioc.ie/ My Way Funerals - http://mywayfunerals.ie/ Dublin Story Slam - https://www.thedublinstoryslam.com/ Contact Lollie at - https://www.linkedin.com/in/drlollie
In a packed and wide-ranging discussion Dr. Lollie Mancey discusses loving what you do, her sqiggle career, fire & glitter, drag queens in Honduras, Latin, achieving the impossible, not moving to Canada, banana bread, innovation, anthropology, entre & intrapreneurship, weddings, funerals, competitive story-telling and a radio show.
Lollie's Plus One
"Try doing something 'differently every day"
A book Lollie recommends:
Ivan Illich - Deschooling society (1971) - Amazon UK link - https://amzn.to/3gUriqv
Podcasts Lollie recommends:
Education evolution Humble badass educators Links to stuff mentioned:
The Postgraduate Certificate in Creativity, Innovation & Entrepreneurship - https://www.innovators.ie/springboard-adult-learning/
Deirdre Murphy - crime scene cleaning - https://www.linkedin.com/in/deirdre-murphy-acs
Marry Me Ireland - http://www.marrymeireland.ie/ The Irish Institute of Celebrants - https://www.iioc.ie/ My Way Funerals - http://mywayfunerals.ie/
Dublin Story Slam - https://www.thedublinstoryslam.com/
Contact Lollie at - https://www.linkedin.com/in/drlollie
We discuss serendipity, right livelihood, needing to change the mix, serious vs earnest, hiking in the rain, being open to opportunity, the need to be curious. Being elected onto a Board, defocussing & refocussing, mis-perceptions, sterotypes, assumptions and the Academy of Management Education Division (MED). Buddhist influences, evidence-based management and the practice of education from PDW sessions. This was a wide ranging and illuminating discussion!
Plus One - "Take seriously what you teach but not yourself; observe when you react against something and bring non-judgemental awareness to it. Lean into the discomfort..."
2m 30s - Alan Watts – philosopher - https://alanwatts.org/
Academy of Management MED Division - https://med.aom.org/home
Contact Jacob via LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacobe1/
We discuss serendipity, right livelihood, needing to change the mix, serious vs earnest, hiking in the rain, being open to opportunity, the need to be curious. Being elected onto a Board, defocussing & refocussing, mis-perceptions, sterotypes, assumptions and the Academy of Management Education Division (MED). Buddhist influences, evidence-based management and the practice of education from PDW sessions. This was a wide ranging and illuminating discussion!
2m 30s - Alan Watts – philosopher - https://alanwatts.org/
Academy of Management MED Division - https://med.aom.org/home
Contact Jacob via LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacobe1/
In this first episode, Joe discusses Universal Design for Learning with Jen Lynch, winner of the 2020 John Kelly award for UDL. Jen shares her journey into adult education, how she faced and overcame imposter syndrome and many of her tips on engaging students creatively. Choice, caring and a constant desire to learn are central to Jen's approach.
Connect with Jen :
via email at jenniferlynch@marinocollege.ie
or on twitterjenniferlynch@jenniferlynch35
What other websites or podcasts do you follow which inform you as an educator?
- The stuff you should know podcast
- Irish history podcast
- Think UDL podcast
Recommended book : * The hidden lives of learners by Graham Nuthall
In this first episode, Joe discusses Universal Design for Learning with Jen Lynch, winner of the 2020 John Kelly award for UDL. Jen shares her journey into adult education, how she faced and overcame imposter syndrome and many of her tips on engaging students creatively. Choice, caring and a constant desire to learn are central to Jen's approach.
In this first episode, Joe discusses Universal Design for Learning with Jen Lynch, winner of the 2020 John Kelly award for UDL. Jen shares her journey into adult education, how she faced and overcame imposter syndrome and many of her tips on engaging students creatively. Choice, caring and a constant desire to learn are central to Jen's approach.
Connect with Jen :
via email at jenniferlynch@marinocollege.ie
or on twitterjenniferlynch@jenniferlynch35
What other websites or podcasts do you follow which inform you as an educator?
- The stuff you should know podcast
- Irish history podcast
- Think UDL podcast
Recommended book : * The hidden lives of learners by Graham Nuthall