Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education
Date of this Version
2016
Document Type
Article
Citation
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development (2016) 35(2)
Abstract
Song has been used by faculty of many disciplines in their classrooms and, to a lesser extent, by educational developers in workshops. This paper shares and discusses a new song (about an instructor’s evolving openness to alternatives to lecture only teaching) and its novel use to open an educational development workshop. Self reported participant data from an exploratory survey suggest that the song was most effective in reducing stress as well as in increasing motivation, morale, engagement, and connection. Practical implications and implementation considerations are discussed regarding the song as well as related creative work.
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Comments
License: CC BY-NC-ND