Category Archives: Teaching

Wiki Wondering

Posted on July 19, 2021 by HJ.DeWaard

“A teacher is a professional, one who must constantly seek to improve and to develop certain qualities or virtues which are not received but must be created. The capacity to renew ourselves every day is important.” Paolo Freire (1985) It … Continue reading →

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Congress and OTESSA: A conference within a conference

Posted on June 2, 2021 by HJ.DeWaard

All genuine learning requires of us a constant open approach, a willingness to engage invention and reinvention, so that we might discover those places of radical transparency where knowledge can empower. bell hooks, 2010, p. 187 Here I am, once … Continue reading →

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A Pandemic Fugue

Posted on March 11, 2021 by HJ.DeWaard

Alternative Title: Music to Inspire a Pandemic Pedagogy “By words we learn thoughts, and by thoughts we learn life.” —Jean Baptiste Girard It’s funny how random words can catch your attention. Today, it’s the word “fugue” that caught my interest … Continue reading →

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Bicycles for the Mind

Posted on September 24, 2020 by HJ.DeWaard

And that’s what a computer is to me. What a computer is to me is it’s the most remarkable tool that we’ve ever come up with, and it’s the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds.” ~ Steve Jobs From Popova, … Continue reading →

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What is Teaching Practice?

Posted on April 16, 2020 by HJ.DeWaard

It’s often when you stop and think, as I’ve done in the past few weeks, that you can stumble over the most basic question. In an effort to think more clearly about the basic elements of my teaching practice, I … Continue reading →

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Thinking about Feedback

Posted on October 30, 2019 by HJ.DeWaard

“What leads you onWakes you in the nightWhat calls your nameWhen no one else can hear?What follows youThat even you cannot see… Follow that star. There is no one’s life but your own.Seize every fiberEvery feather and forceThat weaves through allSurrounding you.A … Continue reading →

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The End of a Conversation

Posted on August 20, 2019 by HJ.DeWaard

“I think the best thing to take from the experience of losing someone close to us is to begin a life worth living right now. Not putting off for the future right action and virtuous living, but practising them immediately.” Doug … Continue reading →

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Elevating Conversations

Posted on June 8, 2019 by HJ.DeWaard

“Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing.” Oscar Wilde I’ve had many conversations over the past several months. Nothing that concentrates on anything in particular. Nothing that stands out as revelational. In the grand scheme, it’s talking, … Continue reading →

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