David Tree

I love me some time boxing, to-do lists really don't work for me but I have an almost Pavlovian response to stuff in my Outlook!

A5 Consistent and honest use of timeboxing on Outlook (other calendars are available) so that everyone respects each others time. Everyone can see how colleagues are using their time and make only reasonable requests on others time. And free thinking is a valid and protected use of time #LTHEchat

A4 Saying "the restructure is finished" at the organisational conclusion of a restructure is a bit like telling someone who's had reconstructive surgery on their leg after a break that "it's all finished" before they can stand up and walk. Let alone run and dance like they used to! #LTHEchat

People say leaders should only be strategic but an understanding of the operational consequences downstream of big strategic decisions would help. An airline may want to lay on more flights to get more customers but if they don't hire enough baggage handers and gate agents you get angry travelers!

A4 they'd find people still working through the unintended consequences of the previous transformational change project #LTHEchat

A3 The people they work for and with having a relationship with them that notices, appreciates and supports them through the years they're in the institution and hopefully as they grow through their career. Bosses should know and support you and we should all be doing that for each other #LTHEchat

A2 We should make a place where flourishing and getting the absurd amount of work we all have to do aren't mutually exclusive. This means cutting out busy-work, meetings that could be an email, and performative presenteeism. Trust but verify! #LTHEchat

A1 feeling appreciated and validated are good too but mostly I want to be able to discharge my responsibilities and pursue my passions. Sometimes they even overlap! #LTHEchat

A1 the time and headspace to do all the things I have to do and all the things I want to do #LTHEchat

This is very good.

I forget, isn’t there an institution other than universities which is supposed to foster an economy which generates jobs for educated individuals?

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This is excellent.

The Churchill Arms. Kensington. Good Thai food.

Nice! It’s also like Improv: lots of “yes, and”-ing!

I'd just see that as a challenge!

A6 Depends which challenges you're talking about. Enormous class sizes are a problem but the challenge of falling recruitment and reduced student attendance is an opportunity to focus on those that're in the class. What a downer at the end of an excellent chat: sorry! #LTHEchat

This is all the more true as I age! I work out purely so I can clamber into the middle row of a 300 seat tiered lecture theatre....

Ha, I often tell experienced academics they should try to learn a new musical instrument every so often so they can make dreadful noises and suck and so realise that the subject which feels easy and intuitive to them will be, like their awful trumpet attempts, entirely foreign and new to others!

A3 probably group as everyone does the solo learning when they're thinking and preparing what to say in the conversation or after when they're thinking about what they've learned. I guess it may not be more efficient but I think learning requires a lot of meandering towards understanding. #LTHEChat

Oh yes, during the session or the next. I'm an awful person, I always timetable a 2 hour session where we do all sorts of problem solving and conversation) where most everyone else does 1 hour lectures) so I build in plenty of time to see where the experience takes us. It's all very jazz. #LTHEChat

A5 My favourite way to use TBL is to make the application exercise reading a research paper or going through the results of a paper and interpreting them as we go (after the i/tRAT gets them the knowledge required to do so). That's engaging them with the real world of the subject I teach #LTHEchat

A2 Oh, I've learned never to call it formative assessment. Students hate it. They're just learning activities. Any kind of number or score they get out of it needs to be discarded instantly #LTHEChat

A4 I've never tried different tasks. That's not much of an answer. Sorry! #LTHEChat But with the same task it's always instructive to see how different groups tackle it and I always learn something new about how students learn or approach a problem by comparing different attempts at the same thing.

A3 It's both. Everyone learns alone in their own head but then builds on it in conversation. Learning is almost always a dialogue of some kind so it's good to force students into it. Otherwise who knows what's going on in their heads! (Probably planning their next meal as I am!). #LTHECHat

A2. Retrieval practice, spaced repetition, scaffolded learning....BINGO! #LTHEChat

A2 it also focusses everyone on the topic in hand. And everyone knows all the hard words and acronyms... #LTHEChat

I have an internal rule (that I only occasionally break) that I'll only talk for 10-15 minutes before we do something together. Even in a lecture of 100-200 students you can get around a lot of them in a reasonably short time, as long as you don't mind mild climbing injuries.

A2 most of my teaching uses active learning so students get formative feedback several times in every teaching session. Those smaller activities build to the larger aim of the module. It's like they're doing sudoku or wordle several times a week, only about really abstruse genetics. #LTHEchat

Ooooohhhhh, "unconditional positive regard": I like that!