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Teaching & Learning
June 2, 2016
There are many great ideas for excellent teaching and learning. From communities of practice to problem-based learning, if you can imagine it, there is an instructional “solution” to match your view. The challenge is that none of these strategies is always the right fit. Each one is excellent for some topics, in some situations, with some learners, but none is fit for all. Explore universal questions that lead to specific answers for unique learners in complex environments.
Build Adaptive Capacity
Mary Nations, shares a church service she recently helped to design and deliver as they explored the impact of difference and bias. It’s a powerful study of courage in the face of fear and how narratives—spoken, sung, and read—can share the lessons we must learn from the history that’s described in her homily.
Teaching & Learning
invest many hours and hopes in online communication. My guess is that you do, too. Virtual connections open any-time and any-where networks for thinking and action. They create opportunities for creative engagement with people around the world.
Manage Strategic Change
We learn a great deal from the gifted professionals who come to us as learners. We learn the most when our programs include Adaptive Action Labs. In these facilitated sessions, people bring their most wicked issues, learn and apply HSD models and methods, and leave with practical and compelling action plans.
Collaborate to Create Community
In today’s blog post, Glenda Eoyang shares an experience of personal transformation about seeing the unique miracle that is each person she meets and connecting with that person in humility and sensitive inquiry. She continues to live into that transformation learning more about her own ways of connecting. Now, she invites you to learn from two of the people who helped to set conditions for these new emerging patterns.
Those of us who make our livings as teachers don’t like to admit it, but that is how most complex skills are developed—in real-world practice.