Category Archives: Evaluating Teaching

Teaching failures, blunders and catastrophes: learning from our mistakes

Posted on December 13, 2018 by Clinton Golding

I recently organised a panel session on teaching failures. Three teaching award winners—Roslyn Kemp, Anthony Robins and Clinton Golding—shared some major failures in their teaching with a group of c.25 academics, and then we discussed what we might learn from … Continue reading →

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How do you judge whether someone is a good teacher?

Posted on May 15, 2018 by Clinton Golding

Judging teaching is like diagnosing measles. There are many things that can indicate measles, but no single indicator is proof of measles. A few spots doesn’t mean you have measles because there are plenty of other reasons why you might … Continue reading →

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Writing my teaching philosophy: abstract claims and concrete illustrations

Posted on May 26, 2017 by Clinton Golding

Sometimes a teaching philosophy is too abstract: “I believe in a student-centred approach and I adopt this in all my teaching. I attempt to create a safe space so learners can blossom.” These can be important claims about you and … Continue reading →

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Getting to know your students

Posted on April 26, 2017 by Clinton Golding

In another blog I argued that we need to know our students if we are to teach well, because teaching is about who you know, not just what you know. But, every time we start a new course we have … Continue reading →

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