Teaching #FAIL
A conversation on Twitter about why we don't write about our failures more as teachers in higher ed.
- Saturday nights are clearly a rocking good time for Academics because we get into extensive conversations about teaching, specifically what failure looks like.
@adelinekoh sounds like a good idea, but also wanting a critical mass of faculty to write about teaching failures
@triproftri @adelinekoh It's such a dicey subject. I've written abt teaching failures often. And as often get severely criticized.- @readywriting but r these criticism of the article based on anxieties propogated by admins & review process?
@readywriting @triproftri @adelinekoh We have a competitive culture of "show no weakness," and it impedes our progress. Who disarms first?- @pannapacker @readywriting @adelinekoh I think some have already started but it's this huge assessment push to ct "success" that's undoing
- @triproftri Hard to tell. Partly being called a poor teacher, pity for my Ss, reason why I don't have a TT job,
- @triproftri My fav was the criticism that I'd be a better teacher if I spent less time blogging/advocating/etc.
- @triproftri I agree. None of us are perfect. #FYCchat is a lot about our weaknesses as teachers and crowdsourcing the solution!
- @pannapacker @triproftri @adelinekoh Just saying I think the various teaching chats that take place here on Twitter are a great start.
@readywriting @triproftri @pannapacker do you find many people sharing stories of failure on teaching chats?- @adelinekoh @triproftri @pannapacker We don't use "failure" but certainly things that didn't go well/as planned.
@adelinekoh @triproftri Would love this kind of work on @HybridPed. I think we need to be more vulnerable in our discussions of teaching.- @triproftri @pannapacker @adelinekoh Agreed. Little room for "failure" in our FYC classrooms b/c of common assessments now.
- @readywriting @triproftri @pannapacker @jessifer maybe we cld crowdsource stories in an anonymous google spreadsheet, lk the adjunct project
- @adelinekoh @readywriting @triproftri @pannapacker Something like this might be more powerful if it weren't anonymous. But am open...
@Jessifer @adelinekoh @readywriting @triproftri @pannapacker This is also a conversation we try to have on @profhacker. [+]- @Jessifer @adelinekoh @readywriting @triproftri @pannapacker Most commenters are helpful/sympathetic. (And for the others: delete!)
@jbj @Jessifer @adelinekoh @readywriting @triproftri @pannapacker @profhacker Brian is our failure master. bit.ly/A4Doa9- @samplereality @jessifer @adelinekoh @readywriting @triproftri @pannapacker He gives it that name. But almost everyone has written about it.
- Thanks @jbj have loved this abt Profhacker. The best teachers risk spectacular failure. @adelinekoh @readywriting @triproftri @pannapacker
- Fan of mass collaboration that risks large scale failure. @samplereality @jbj @adelinekoh @readywriting @triproftri @pannapacker @profhacker
- Really admire this post on rocking failure (great for academics) by @briancroxall via @samplereality bit.ly/A4Doa9
