{"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\u00a0for 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,\u00a0<span class=\"scayt-misspell-word\">Gibbs<\/span>\u00a0invites 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\u00a0poor 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\u00a0maintenance 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 respect\u00a0for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":1799,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"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"],"_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":4,"href":"https:\/\/educational-innovation.sydney.edu.au\/teaching@sydney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2116,"href":"https:\/\/educational-innovation.sydney.edu.au\/teaching@sydney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750\/revisions\/2116"}],"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}]}}