#experiential teaching

[orelsemystery]

A WEIRD PROJECT & WEIRD PEDAGOGY

I’m reminded sometimes that I really believe in the methodology behind this project. Maybe that sounds silly; of course I believe in it, I’ve certainly poured enough energy into it. It’s just that the whole project is sort of a joke—I mean, it’s a kind of complicated, extremely time-consuming, pretty esoteric joke about (on?) academia. And there’s a significant air of laughter at the highly polished, professionalized structures we’ve set up around art and creative work throughout this project as well. I think it’s funny. I put my Ph.D. certificate on my refrigerator. I talked about Captain America’s butt at academic conferences. I wrote TWICE AS MUCH as I needed to for my dissertation just so I could justify close reading gay sex alongside Victorian ghosts!! Hilarious.

But, like, you know, I do actually think this is a legitimate method of scholarship. A valuable method. A portable method, which can be applied to any number of subfields within literature and the arts. A method that, if framed the right way, is pretty compatible with more traditional academia. Multimodal, cross-platform, interdisciplinary—in the tradition of queer scholarship that blends the personal and academic—a way of making the case for the humanities in this time of precarity. I think I’ve put my energies mainly in places other than academic publishing, however, because the heart of what I do in academia, why I want to be here, is actually teaching.

In fact, it’s possible that teaching is a more natural extension of the methodology behind this project than academic publication is. Especially undergraduate teaching, which encourages students to connect what they do in the classroom with their lives, their communities, their society. The longer I teach, the more I understand the value of projects like mine, projects that meld literary criticism and creative work, critical writing and public-facing communication. My students read detective fiction and make their own detective as a way to articulate their point of view on justice, power, and knowledge; they turn a portion of Dracula into a social media post in which Mina and Lucy become real young women grappling with gendered expectations in their love lives. This semester, one class is going to attempt an online “library” to share of all sorts of texts we find meaningful to our lives. I hope it turns out really weird.

This project is both theory and practice. And my teaching is both theory and practice. We think and theorize through creation. We recognize that thinking and theorizing are themselves a kind of creation. My teaching feeds my work, my work feeds my teaching—and it’s fun. I’m really lucky. I’m happy to be starting another school year.

www.orelsemystery.com

[3liza]

me after narrowly avoiding another Tumblr thread where 60% of this website claims to have <1% incidence neurological phenomena because theyve never thought about what if the blue *i* see isn't the same color as the blue *you* see, man

[cithaerons]

but also my field is very weird where even the marking and grading cannot be done by anyone but the professors themselves. obviously it’s a huge thing in many fields where the professors “teach” (aka give lectures) and then grad students do everything else (actually mark exams and papers etc). but that’s not permitted in my field like you would lose accreditation.

[footagedump]

i just

[singingshutin]

throw back to the time i worked as a cashier and an old man asked me what the difference was between restaurant style and regular tortilla chips and when i said i wasn't sure he got mad and insisted that because i was hispanic i should know

(i am not hispanic)

so yeah i think everyone should have to work customer service for a little while and maybe as a society we'd all learn some more compassion

[learningwithshourykuttappa]

The Teachers Excellence Award event, hosted by Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham in collaboration with The Times of India, celebrating and honoring the contributions of outstanding educators in Tamil Nadu, was held on Teachers' Day.

With distinguished speakers, including Thiru Anbil Mahesh Poyyamozhi, Tamil Nadu’s Minister for School Education, the event underscored the importance of emotional intelligence and experiential learning.

Dr. Shoury Kuttappa, Academic Manager & Counsellor at Amrita’s School of Engineering, led an insightful discussion on emotional intelligence and experiential learning, inspiring educators to adopt innovative teaching methods.

[theadaptableeducator]

Mindset Monday Book Review: Place, Craft, and Neurodiversity: Re-imagining Potential through Education at Ruskin Mill by Aonghus Gordon

Aonghus Gordon’s Place, Craft, and Neurodiversity is an ambitious exploration of education as a transformative process that redefines traditional concepts of human potential. With the Ruskin Mill approach at its core, this book weaves together philosophy, pedagogy, and neuroscience, establishing a profound dialogue between place-based learning, the importance of craft, and the inclusion of…

[biblebloodhound]

Words of Wisdom (Proverbs 14:1-9)

If there’s no manure in the barn, there’s no money in the bank.

Words of Wisdom, by Aengus Boyle A wise woman builds her house,    while a foolish woman tears hers down with her own hands.Those who walk with integrity fear the Lord,    but those who take a crooked path despise him.Pride sprouts in the mouth of a fool,    but the lips of the wise protect them.When there are no oxen, the stall is clean,    but when there is a strong bull, there is abundant…

[international-school-bangalore]

Experiential Learning - Encouraging respectful and caring participation in the global experience

[agreenroad]

Spirituality, Spiritual But Not Religious, Supernatural Realms, Personal Growth

The meaning of spirituality has developed and expanded over time, and various meanings can be found alongside each other.[1][2][3][note 1] Traditionally, spirituality referred to a religious process of re-formation which “aims to recover the original shape of man”,[note 2] oriented at “the image of God“[4][5] as exemplified by the founders and sacred texts of the religions of the world. The term…

[online-coaching-classes]

School Integrated Program

Sarvanga Education: Unlocking the Future of Learning with School Integrated Program

Well, talking about the School Integrated Program, let us tell you that at Sarvanga Education, we are offering the best programs for all the 12th-grade students who are looking ahead to prepare for the NEET or JEE entrance examinations. 

The School Integrated Program (SIP) at Sarvanga Education offers a perfect blended learning approach that holds the combination of face-to-face instruction with the flexibility and interactive nature of online learning. This unique and student-friendly model allows students to benefit from personal attention shared by expert teachers along with modern technology.

With this School integrated program, Sarvanga Education aims to offer a comprehensive JEE and NEET preparation, ranging from foundation levels (Grade 9) to the advanced levels (Grade 12), through a flexible and versatile model encompassing offline, hybrid, and online mode of learning and teaching.

There is no denying the fact that school is indeed an integral part when it comes to the holistic development of a student and reinforcing confidence and positive competitive spirit in students is notably important in such crucial situations when the world is all about ambitious mindsets, perseverance, resilience, and hope. 

The school-integrated program is undoubtedly a good deal breaker for students as it offers endless benefits when it comes to the development of a student in building a bright future in the world of education. These kinds of programs help students plan their future careers or professions which leads his/her to be independent thinkers. Sarvanga Education offers a completely customized educational program that provides the dual object of ‘Excellence in School/Board Exams + Cracking competitive exams like IIT, JEE/NEET, etc.

At Sarvanga Education students are offered affordable and high-quality blended learning classes for CBSE or ICSE curriculum schools, as well as for students who are preparing for NEET or JEE entrance examinations. Sarvanga Education aims to empower students from all across the country, especially from small cities and towns with the best and most experienced teachers well-versed with the latest technology to succeed academically and achieve the ultimate goals of their life.

Sarvanga Education aims to tutor its students for all the major competitive examinations so that all its students are prepared to give their best and also deliver optimum performance even if the pattern of the exam is changed at the last minute. At Sarvanga Education we always focus on imparting quality education to all our students, while also equipping them to appear for various All-India competitive examinations. 

 Not only students but schools and institutions also experience great advantages with Sarvanga Education’s School integrated program. Let's discuss them in brief-

Pioneering Institution

Sarvanga Education has a proven track record of providing quality education at an affordable cost, catering to diverse schools and peer groups. Not only limited to collaborating with pioneer schools and institutions we also specialize in crafting tailor-made programs that align specifically with the unique needs of each school.

Flexible Program Scheduling

Our school-integrated education programs can be organized to suit the convenience of your school's timetable while offering bilingual and regional language support to facilitate better understanding and inclusivity among students. With our school-integrated program, we aim to offer a 360° approach, covering academic support, branding, and admission support to ensure a holistic educational experience.

Tailored Programs

Sarvanga Education specializes in crafting tailor-made programs that align specifically with the unique needs of each school   Our classes commence as per the school's convenient schedule. Sarvanga Education provides services as per school needs.

Flexible Study Material Formats

Sarvanga Education caters to diverse learning preferences by providing study materials in both online and offline modes (as per the class format), ensuring students can access resources according to their chosen learning methodology.

Well, these were some of the benefits that schools get to witness with Sarvanga Education’s School Integrated Program. Now let’s see what the advantages that Sarvanga Education’s School Integrated Program offers to all its students-

Affordability and Convenience

By offering classes within students' own schools, we aim to eliminate the need for extra travel or additional expenses that students have to bear during their travel. Our pocket-friendly services are accessible to a wide range of students and their families with the objective of the best results.

All-Inclusive Support

Our school-integrated program offers comprehensive support to all the students through practical exercises, assessments, and a tailored curriculum to meet the specific requirements of CBSE and ICSE boards, while taking care of the board, we also aim to provide all-inclusive support to our students in every possible aspect.

Psychological Assessment and Career Counseling

In addition to academic services, Sarvanga Education also offers personalized psychological assessments to all its students to get thorough with student’s strengths, weaknesses, and interests. Based on the result, our counselors offer career counseling sessions to students guide them, and also help them in choosing the right career path.

Empowering Holistic Development

At Sarvanga Education we completely understand the importance of mental well-being in academic performance and overall success. Therefore our objective is to empower our students to make informed decisions about their future and enhance their confidence and self-esteem so that they can perform well in their chosen field.

Well apart from the above-mentioned benefits, there are some other advantages that Sarvanga Education’s School Integrated Program has to offer to all its students also takes great pride in this program. Let’s discuss them below-

Integrated Education for a Digital Era

Sarvanga Education fully understands the importance of staying ahead in the digital age not only to succeed but also to win the race, and that is why the "School Integrated Program" is designed in such a way that it will cater to the needs of modern learners in every possible way. This innovative and advanced education approach perfectly combines various educational elements such as "Blended Curriculum," "Interdisciplinary Education," "Cross-Disciplinary Education," and "Multi-Domain Learning."

Understanding and Embracing to a Changing World

In response to the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, Sarvanga Education seamlessly transitioned to "Hybrid Classes" and "Digital Board School" solutions to offer the safest and most easily accessible learning to all its students. These online options ensure that learning never stops, even in the face of adversity.

The Sarvanga Difference

It’s not only school, Sarvanga Education is more than that. It is an educational ecosystem that fosters innovation, critical thinking, and adaptability keeping its students in it’s mind. With the "Integrated Study Approach," all the students are encouraged to explore multiple domains, collaborate across disciplines, and develop a deeper understanding of the world around them.

In conclusion, Sarvanga Education's "School Integrated Program" is nothing but a visionary approach to education, where we are preparing our students for the real-life challenges and opportunities of the 21st century. By embracing integrated learning, interdisciplinary education, and digital solutions, Sarvanga Education is paving the way for a brighter future for all its students.

FAQ’s about Sarvanga Education ‘School Integrated Program’

What is Sarvanga Education's teaching methodology?

With years of experience in the field of education, when it comes to learning in the 21st century we at Sarvanga Education believe in a holistic approach that focuses not only on syllabus and academic excellence but one that helps students develop CHARACTER, CREATIVITY, VALUES, and A SPIRIT OF LEADERSHIP. We foster innovation, critical thinking, and adaptability keeping our students in it’s mind. With the "Integrated Study Approach," all the students are encouraged to explore multiple domains, collaborate across disciplines, and develop a deeper understanding of the world around them.

What does Sarvanga Education offer?

We provide coaching for classes VI to XII for CBSE & ICSE students along with our School Integrated Program we offer tutoring for All-India major entrance examinations like JEE, NEET, and others.

Does Sarvanga Education offer Integrated coaching for competitive exams?

Yes, Integrated coaching is offered with the Board of Intermediate syllabus, and students will be prepared to face a variety of competitive exams for both Commerce and Sciences.

How does Sarvanga Education assist students in choosing integrated programs?

With the help of our trained student counselors and their detailed counseling, students will be guided and counseled to assess their interests and skills and decide upon a career that is best suited for them.

Do you offer coaching for IIT?

At Sarvanga Education and its school-integrated program, students will be mentored for JEE advanced based on their ability, it is not a generic approach followed for all students. We strongly believe in preparing students based on their ability and strength will help them get admission into the top 25% of Engineering colleges.

Contact SARVANGA EDUCATION

Make your child's education a priority with SARVANGA EDUCATION. Contact us today to learn more about our services and how we can help your child achieve academic excellence.

[wisekiss22]

10 Fun and Fascinating Teaching Strategies for Kids

Are you looking for fun and effective ways to teach kids that will make learning enjoyable and engaging? Look no further! In this article, we will share with you 10 teaching strategies that are not only educational but also a lot of fun. From hands-on activities to interactive games, these strategies will help capture your children’s attention and make learning a memorable…

[entaberp]

Learning Outcomes: Unlocking Student Success with Entab

Learning Outcomes are a crucial component of education, representing the knowledge, skills, and competencies students are expected to gain throughout their academic journey. They provide a clear framework for educators and students to understand the desired results of the learning process. To effectively track and achieve learning outcomes, educational institutions can rely on Entab's comprehensive suite of digital solutions.

Entab offers personalized learning platforms, competency tracking tools, data analytics capabilities, and interactive simulations that align perfectly with the focus on learning outcomes. With Entab's experiential learning assets, schools can create tailored learning experiences, measure progress, and provide targeted interventions to ensure students' success.

By incorporating Entab's innovative tools, educational institutions can empower educators to design meaningful assessments, personalize instruction, and foster a growth mindset among students. Submit your directory listing with Entab to unlock the full potential of Learning Outcomes and revolutionize education by setting clear expectations and maximizing student achievement.

[4dkellysworld]

Real talk: When I gave up

Okay real talk here. This journey isn't always easy, especially at the start when you've just learned everything and you're identifying with an ego. Near the beginning of my journey, I came to understand a lot of the teachings intellectually and even instinctively. There was only one thing left. To realize Self. And I would keep trying with all these practices but felt like nothing was "happening" (even though intellectually I already knew there was nothing to achieve since we are already Self!). It was frustrating (but of course! I was still looking at all this from the identification of the ego).

Then one day I was sick of trying, sick of feeling desperate, sick of being on this goddamn mental pilgrimage, that I decided to give up on trying altogether. I already AM Self. From that day on, I decided I would always identify as Self and never again as the ego. And that's when things started naturally unfolding without me even doing anything and I gained more understanding experientially. Probably an unpopular take (for realized gurus lol) but I also threw away self-inquiry as a practice because I found it to be the least helpful for me personally and why do I need to ask "Who am I" when I already know I Am?

Abandon all imaginings and know yourself as you are - Nisargadatta Maharaj

I stopped seeking. I stopped trying. I stopped asking questions (including self-inquiry yay!). I stopped doing any practices to "get" or "understand" or "realize" anything. I stopped caring about understanding more of the teachings or gaining more understanding intellectually. I stopped thinking of Self-identification as some goal to reach, something that I need to progress on. I stopped waiting for anything to happen and just enjoyed being in the Now. I didn't realise at the time and only now upon reflection I realise that I gave up on all ego activities on spirituality lol. All of that is the ego looking for something to do and trying to achieve something. Only through my experience, do I now understand more deeply the things that realized masters have said. E.g. Robert Adams said something like "stop trying and seeking to be liberated and you will be because you already are". We've imagined our prisons but we are actually already liberated and always have been.

I decided (because it's true!) I already AM Self, it's not something you need to become (or understand in order to become). And because I AM, there is nothing to do but be.

edit: I found this passage a day after writing the initial draft of this post and Robert Adams said the same thing! But giving up was something I was led to by listening to Self. Truth is Truth :)

There is nothing you can think of in this Universe that can tell you what you are. It is beyond words and thoughts. You can never with your finite mind understand who you are. So do not try to do this. It works in reverse. It is when you actually stop thinking about who you are, or wanting to know who you are, and you stop analyzing, and you stop trying to figure it out, that the truth about you is revealed. Self-Realization from Silence of the Heart - Robert Adams

Two things I didn't stop doing: observing as the witness consciousness and sitting in silence in the awareness of being. But both "practices" are things I as Self naturally do because it's my very nature! It's not the same as when I used to identify as the ego and did them because I was trying to achieve something. Sitting in silence & stillness is literally my favourite activity now haha. I'm not sure whether to describe witnessing my ego progressively dissolving or merging into Self because both feel correct? Ah but that doesn't matter. Another thing I stopped caring is to label things as well and just let everything be and unfold on its own - there truly is so much peace and beauty in just being Self! I'm only trying to use words to describe this to share with others in case it's helpful for their journeys but of course words are limiting and you can only understand this when you experience it yourself.

There is nothing to get, only just BE. And it is soooo freeing and wonderful once you understand this. Give up on trying to make the mind and ego understand you are Self, that is a fruitless task. Leave them be. Stop trying to make things happen and just let things be. The more you stay in silence with this understanding, the more the light of awareness shines through and the more you will experientially understand this. Allow things to be and happen on their own, including the permanent identification with Self. Have no desires, expectations or judgments and just surrender to the Now. Just keep being Self.

Only look at who you are, over and over and over until it becomes the permanent identification and replaces the ego. - 4dbarbie

Remember to listen to your own Self above all. Everything else is simply a guide to point you towards Self. You are your greatest teacher! So listen to your Self and do what feels right for you.

Your own self is your ultimate teacher, the outer teacher is merely a milestone. It is only your inner teacher that will walk with you to the goal, because he is the goal. - Nisargadatta Maharaj

[actualising-study]

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Tomorrow is the first official day of teaching for my course! (last week was induction)

Yesterday and today I finished the theory pre-lecture reading and an online quiz ♡ 

Person-Centred Experiential Theory Hours private study: 4/150 Contact hours: 0/50

[cassandrasimplex]

Listen, when I say, as an abuse survivor, that Astarion's storyline is written with care, delicacy, and profound understanding: Since I completed it a few days ago, which I found incredibly cathartic and fulfilling due to points of commonality with the nature and causes of my CPTSD, I've been sleeping 7-8 hours a night straight through (instead of 3-5 at a time), my resting heart rate has dropped almost 10 beats per minute, I've had zero nightmares (based not just on what I remember but also on how much I move and talk in my sleep), and my fitness tracker wants to know what I've been doing different lately and whether I can keep it up.

I don't expect this change to be permanent or even long-lasting, but not even months of therapy at a time have ever had a positive effect so strong my tracker picked up on it. Not even when I was in crisis mode and only able to sleep 2 or 3 hours a day was therapy able to improve my sleep and my well-being so immediately. Astarion's storyline from finding Cazador's prisoners to the final confrontation, which took me a bit over an hour, did. If you want to count all the narrative build-up to that climax that gave it meaning, call it six weeks' investment for such a dramatic improvement.

The idea that trauma-aware roleplay can help people with PTSD and especially CPTSD find short-term peace and even a long-term improvement in overall functioning and mental health isn't new to me. I stumbled across it on my own, unguided, 30+ years ago. It's a bit newer to most therapists, but it's an approach used in experiential therapy and some related strategies and had been studied for much longer before its incorporation in such toolkits. But BG3 isn't being sold as therapy; it's being sold as a fun video game to play in one's free time.

The thing about CPTSD and recovery from abuse in general is that you have to practice new ways of reacting to the world. Therapies like cognitive behavior therapy focus on helping the patient replace old, maladaptive patterns of thinking that helped them survive a traumatic situation but hinder functioning in safer environments with intentionally-created ones that would have been too dangerous to practice in the traumatic environment but are healthier and more supportive outside it. These patterns have to be practiced, though; it's not enough to just correct yourself once with a more affirming statement and wait for results. You have to do it over and over until it becomes your new default. And results matter. If practicing the new behavior or thought results in the kind of negative outcome it would have prompted in the original abusive situation, the effect is that the old, maladaptive pattern is reinforced instead: "See? I knew acting that way would be too dangerous. I knew thinking that way would just be lying to myself. I already know what's best. The way I've always behaved in order to survive is what serves to keep me safe."

Which is why Astarion's storyline is both so effective and so astonishingly well done. Over and over, you get the chance to reassure him that your friendship is not merely a set of opportunistic transactions, that you don't want to control him, that you see him as a person rather than a puppet or a tool, that he can refuse to manage your feelings for you or even outright hurt your feelings without being "punished" for it. You can comment out loud to him when you catch him being manipulative and tell him that's not how your friendship works while still accepting and supporting him as a person, as a friend. You can make your friendship with him an environment completely opposite in nature to his relationship with his abuser. You can teach him -- and, if you need it, yourself -- what a safe environment looks like. And you can teach him that his abuser's behavior was successful in an environment created specifically to reserve all power for the abuser, but doesn't serve as well outside that situation, to encourage him to find healthier ways of dealing with the world than the ones that were modelled for him within that trauma. (Am I projecting? Of course I'm projecting; that's precisely what makes roleplay such an effective tool. It's a natural human tendency that can be used to advantage.)

And somewhere in your psyche, if you're a person who needs to hear all that as much as Astarion does, your mind is taking note: "How I thought the whole world works was wrong. Only that one little part of the world worked that way. The world is much bigger than the limited environment that hurt me. There are better ways to live and be." The parts of the brain where trauma plants its deepest roots can't tell the difference between play and reality, between past and present. They can't tell the difference between "I can make a safer environment for this person in front of me" and "I can go back in time and make a safer environment for the person I used to be." (That's why so many abuse survivors feel compelled to help other abuse survivors -- empathy, yes, and identification, but on a deeper level than that; we try to become the person who never showed up to help us.)

And if "this person in front of me" happens to be a fictional character, well, it can't really tell the difference between fiction and reality either -- especially when the fiction has a visible face and an audible voice and convincing expression in both.

I'm not in the slightest saying, "Go out and buy BG3 to fix yourself!" because using roleplay as therapy is far too highly personal and variable to expect consistent results from a script. There might be people whose trauma is reinforced by the same things that spoke so soothingly to mine. Larian is a video game company, not a therapist. But I can't get over the way a video game company for fuck's sake has created such a sensitive, tender, supportive story that it can even accidentally function this way. They didn't have to go so hard. They didn't have to lean so far into empathy. They didn't have to bring so much realism into it. They could have just told an interesting story. They did tell an interesting story -- but someone here decided they needed to tell it so well, so powerfully, that they were going to need to know exactly what living through events like those would do to a person, and how a friend would have to act to support that person in working toward happiness and health.

Well fucking done, Larian. Extremely well fucking done.

And although I can't reasonably expect the current effects to last, I can carry something lasting from here on; I can add "What would I say to Astarion right now?" to the list of questions I ask myself when triggered, when I realize I'm experiencing an implicit flashback. What would I say to Astarion? What would I say to a friend? What would I say to someone I care about who's been through the same things I have? What would I say to myself if I thought I deserved to be happy and free?