I blog about educational development, facilitation, and teaching.
As of March 2018, I am blogging more regularly at isabeauiqbal.com (my coaching site). I will still occasionally blog here.
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Bringing mindfulness into post-secondary teaching
Last year, I attended the 2014 Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education Conference where there were a number of sessions on the use of mindfulness in higher education. This inspired me to think about how I might bring mindfulness into my teaching. I teach in the Bachelor of Education program at the…
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Ways to structure a writing group
Photo courtesy of Alan Cleaver via Flickr This week I met with folks who are interested in forming a writing group; many of us did not know each other and we were brought together by the lovely Sara Harris of UBC’s Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences. The meeting has prompted me to write…
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Educational development: common sense or content expertise?
As teachers and educational developers, we have all undoubtedly come across people who believe our work is “common sense”. Though I am convinced we apply common sense to our work, I am equally convinced that our content expertise (in this case, our subject knowledge of teaching and learning in higher education) factors in strongly. As…