A community college is such a complex and living ecosystem. This podcast picks up the webs that should be connecting us and tends to the ecology of our college that binds us in our shared mission of teaching the community. What do you teach? How do you teach it? How could we learn from each other? Created by the Center for Teaching Excellence, Instructional Ecology is created about and for the teaching community at Midlands Technical College in Columbia, South Carolina but can be relevant to and inspiring to anyone teaching in any community.
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A community college is such a complex and living ecosystem. This podcast picks up the webs that should be connecting us and tends to the ecology of our college that binds us in our shared mission of teaching the community. What do you teach? How do you teach it? How could we learn from each other? Created by the Center for Teaching Excellence, Instructional Ecology is created about and for the teaching community at Midlands Technical College in Columbia, South Carolina but can be relevant to and inspiring to anyone teaching in any community.
We continue with our story series with English professor Sylvia Hayes. Sylvia talks to us about beginning a small market farm with her husband: Love and Honey Farms.We hear about aquaponics and raising ducks, turkeys, lots of chickens, and goats. Hear the story of the first time Sylvia midwifed the birth of twin goats!We explore the benefits she sees of helping new students build a supporting community and manage their time, two things that Sylvia herself learned the hard way, through need. She talks about her college struggle with cancer and homelessness, the lessons of which she offers to her students to ease their journeys.Spend some time on a farm and in an English classroom as we hear another story of beginnings.
Instructional Ecology
A community college is such a complex and living ecosystem. This podcast picks up the webs that should be connecting us and tends to the ecology of our college that binds us in our shared mission of teaching the community. What do you teach? How do you teach it? How could we learn from each other? Created by the Center for Teaching Excellence, Instructional Ecology is created about and for the teaching community at Midlands Technical College in Columbia, South Carolina but can be relevant to and inspiring to anyone teaching in any community.
