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.
In this episode, we talk with Geography professor and education abroad program leader Brian Grabbatin. Brian's discipline offers students new information and perspective on the world around them: in the natural world around the college, in the study of human and physical geography in the classroom and abroad as he takes them overseas to countries they've never visited before. We talk about firsts and the stress and excitement of travel in the mind and the body. What is it like for students to begin to explore our world through his classes and as tourists? What does he do to help them succeed in these explorations? We talk about his own experience as a first-generation college student as a young man and what that brings to his teaching. Join us for a rich conversation about teaching practice that helps build the "messy networks" of interconnected knowledge that students slowly construct as they progress in one of his Geography courses.
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.
