Last year I was contacted by the
Universidad del Norte in Barranquilla, Colombia, about the prospect of giving some faculty workshops on teaching and learning at their annual summer event. I was thrilled at the prospect, and eventually we agreed that I would spend a day and a half working with interested faculty on the ideas from
Small Teaching, as well as provide a keynote on my book
Cheating Lessons for a conference they were hosting. I spent a very busy and enjoyable week in Barranquilla, hosting these events and meeting with other faculty and staff from their teaching center, after which my wife and a friend joined me for a few days of relaxation in Cartagena.
Here are a few photos from that trip (the first seven of which are credited to Universidad del Norte), which concluded a couple of weeks ago. I will be returning to Barranquilla and making my first visit to Bogota in September, where I will be working with three universities on a Fulbright Specialist grant to help create a MOOC on teaching and learning for Latin American faculty. Very happy and excited to return to Colombia next month!
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Opening presentation on the theory and practice of small teaching. |
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The morning session had more than one hundred faculty in fixed auditorium seating--not ideal for interactive workshops, but we did our best! |
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Second day, with a little bit of discussion of Carol Dweck's theory of the growth mindset. |
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Final session of the second day, focused on theories of motivation that lend themselves to small teaching approaches. |
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Pausing for some green tea--an activity which will strike readers of Small Teaching as a familiar one for me. |
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The keynote on Cheating Lessons on Friday morning--another very crowded room. |
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Boy, do I seem to love to gesticulate. |
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Work all done, enjoying dinner with my wife at Carmen's in Cartagena. |
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An inspiring visit to the church of St. Peter Claver, the saint of the slaves. |
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Farewell from my scuba diving trip to the Rosario Islands off the coast of Cartagena. |
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