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Weekly Reflection: Observations of teaching

Weekly Reflection: Observations of teaching

As part of my PGCLT, I am required to have my mentor sit in on one of my teaching sessions and completed a peer observation template for me to learn from.

Initially, I wasn’t overly concerned by this. I like and respect my mentor and I am keen to have her feedback. Whilst I am understandably anxious that the feedback I’m going to receive will be ‘you’re doing it all wrong’, from the same angle…

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Weekly Reflections: The reflective practitioner

Weekly Reflections: The reflective practitioner

At the beginning of this week I taught my first session as a University lecturer on the topic of professional accountability and the role of the nurse in evidence based practice. The class was to a very small group of students studying an apprenticeship programme to become nursing associates.

As has quickly become the norm, I was teaching online using my Adobe Connect that I’ve made jolly…

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Weekly Reflections: Learning and teaching at University

Weekly Reflections: Learning and teaching at University

This week’s lesson focused on the way that lecturers teach, and students learn. Race (2014) outlines seven factors that underpin successful learning: wanting to learn, needing to learn, learning by doing, learning through feedback, making sense, verbalising/dialogue and learning through assessment. When I reflect on my own teaching experiences, I can recognise that many of my classes were filled…

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Literally

[seatrench]

Seal meets Butterfly

(source)

[radiqueer]

weird how I became a much more compassionate and accepting person when I realised that drug addiction is the symptom of a problem and not the problem in itself

[radiqueer]

you also start to realise just how much the War On Drugs was actually a war against the poor, against survivors, against trans people, against sex workers, against the mentally ill and the disabled, against PoC, against queers, against the homeless. how much of it was a government manufactured ploy to sell violence against the marginalized as violence against addiction, as if addiction was not a symptom of systemic abuse.

[lines-and-edges]

It’s true and you should say it.

[micolashes-deactivated20200723]

[worldcircus]

Kind of gives you chills .

[kittygory-deactivated20210901]

Good Lord, how delicious! I wanna do that! The next time I’m in a cathedral, I’m doing it. 

[youreyesblazeout]

As she stood inside an ancient and empty church in Montefrío, Spain, Malinda Kathleen Reese belted out one of the best Christmas carols of all time-“O Come, O Come Emmanuel” and the end result was just heavenly.

[derrieresandcankles]

I’m obsessed with this because A. Victorian Christmas Carols B. European Cathedrals C. It’s gorgeous and fuckin choristers are my favorite

[carlitos-guey]

[rxsewood]

Decompression Sickness: Moving up the bands

Decompression Sickness: Moving up the bands

I’ve been meaning to write this for a while, but I keep putting it off. Partly because blogging involves sitting down quietly and concentrating (something I’ve never been very good at) but mainly because I’m self conscious as to how it would be received. 

In September I started a new role as Palliative Care Clinical Nurse Specialist. There are so many reasons this is incredible and insane but I…

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[scarlettohairdye]

What true love looks like.

OKAY SO I had a coworker who was otherwise a standard clueless Straight White Guy, but this dude loved his wife and he knew her real good. And his wife LOVES shitty grocery store icing. So the first thing she’d always do with any cake is shove her fingers into the corner and scoop off whatever abomination of a flower was on there and eat it off her fingers. SO THIS DUDE GOES TO THE STORE AND HAS THEM MAKE A WHOLE CAKE OUT OF FROSTING Brings it home to his wife for her birthday She shoves her fingers into it and then they just keep going FROSTING ALL THE WAY DOWN He said the look on her face was the best thing he’d ever seen in his life It gives me hope that even a clueless Straight White Guy knew and loved his wife enough to give her the perfect birthday present cake frosting abomination

And I love to imagine the conversation he had to have with the grocery store bakery.

[neurodivergent-crow]

That’s disgusting, what a good husband

[notchicken]

When will your friends ever

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PLEASE GIVE US BACK OUR MOM

[cheese24k]

Corgi only listens to owner when he talks like The Beatles

> I like how the guy in video talked with other accents to give more proof.

[robinbenway]

I don’t even know where to begin with this!

[snorlaxatives]

@ the water that drips down my arms when i wash my face and makes a big ass mess: fuckin fight me

[beevean]

reasons I’m still on this hellsite:

1) nowhere else I could find posts this specifically relatable

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Aly Raisman’s speech at the 2018 ESPY awards after the Arthur Ashe Courage Award was presented to the hundreds of survivors who were abused by former USA Gymnastics and Michigan State University team doctor.

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[mademoisellechandrila]

Preach it, James. “…it doesn’t belong to you.”