{"id":1750,"date":"2016-05-26T12:44:54","date_gmt":"2016-05-26T02:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sydney.edu.au\/education-portfolio\/ei\/teaching@sydney\/?p=1750"},"modified":"2016-08-13T21:32:39","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T11:32:39","slug":"53-powerful-ideas-teachers-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/educational-innovation.sydney.edu.au\/teaching@sydney\/53-powerful-ideas-teachers-know\/","title":{"rendered":"53 Powerful Ideas All Teachers Should Know About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seda.ac.uk\/resources\/files\/publications_180_30%20Departments%20differ%20widely%20in%20their%20teaching%20quality.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Idea 30 &#8211; <strong>Departments differ widely in their teaching quality<\/strong><\/a>, Graham <span class=\"scayt-misspell-word\">Gibbs<\/span> focuses on the significance of the local departmental culture and respect<br \/>for learning and teaching as the primary influence on teaching quality. In investigating the question &#8216;what makes a <em><strong>department<\/strong><\/em> good at teaching?&#8217; Through his research on this question,<br \/><span class=\"scayt-misspell-word\">Gibbs<\/span><br \/>invites us to see teaching as a responsibility beyond the efforts of the individual charismatic teacher:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Departments which are known for their<br \/>poor teaching quality tend to be those that do not value teaching with staff tending not to attend teaching seminars or apply for teaching related grants.<\/li>\n<li>Departments who had turned their teaching quality around often did so through a wonderful leader, such as a Head of Department, and a challenge, such as the threat of closure.<\/li>\n<li>Departments with long traditions of teaching quality maintained it through careful<br \/>maintenance of a culture supportive of teaching, including selection and promotion policies which reward and expect teaching excellence.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Graham <span class=\"scayt-misspell-word\">Gibbs<\/span> is one of the UK&#8217;s most well known advocates of improving university learning and teaching. With his colleagues (<span class=\"scayt-misspell-word\">Habeshaw<\/span> &amp; <span class=\"scayt-misspell-word\">Habeshaw<\/span>), he was responsible for the very popular &#8217;53 Interesting Ideas&#8217; books series that have supported countless teachers (new and experienced) to navigate their way through tricky classroom and curriculum dilemmas. <span class=\"scayt-misspell-word\">Gibbs<\/span>&#8216; <span class=\"scayt-misspell-word\">blog<\/span> &#8217;53 Powerful Ideas all Teachers Should Know About&#8217; offers a research summary of key issues, and is hosted by the Staff and Educational Development Association (<span class=\"scayt-misspell-word\">SEDA<\/span>) in the UK.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Idea 30 &#8211; Departments differ widely in their teaching quality, Graham Gibbs focuses on the significance of the local departmental culture and respectfor&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":1799,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"coauthors":[489],"class_list":["post-1750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-teaching-tips","post-item","post-even"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/educational-innovation.sydney.edu.au\/teaching@sydney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/educational-innovation.sydney.edu.au\/teaching@sydney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/educational-innovation.sydney.edu.au\/teaching@sydney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educational-innovation.sydney.edu.au\/teaching@sydney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educational-innovation.sydney.edu.au\/teaching@sydney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/educational-innovation.sydney.edu.au\/teaching@sydney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educational-innovation.sydney.edu.au\/teaching@sydney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/educational-innovation.sydney.edu.au\/teaching@sydney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educational-innovation.sydney.edu.au\/teaching@sydney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educational-innovation.sydney.edu.au\/teaching@sydney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1750"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educational-innovation.sydney.edu.au\/teaching@sydney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}