This week:
I share ideas from Susan Hrach, author of the new book
Minding Bodies: How Physical Space, Sensation, and Movement Affect Learning, for teaching in person or online.
I pass along an idea for changing your college’s teaching culture.
I link to some recent writing on teaching you may have missed.
Education, Embodied
When Susan Hrach was wrapping up her new book on the connection between physicality and learning, she figured it would be tough to get professors to adopt its recommendations for incorporating movement into their teaching. “It’s always been a very hard sell to get people to change what they had been doing for a long time,” says Hrach, director of a faculty teaching center at Columbus State University, in Georgia. And college instruction has long been identified with sitting in rows of chairs bolted to the floor and listening to a lecture.