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Richèl

How to pronounce my name

Language Pronunciation
Dutch 'Rie-sjel'
English 'Rea-shell'
French 'Richèl'
German 'Ri-shäll'
Swedish 'Ri-kjell'

Teaching

  • 2007-2008 MSc: Teaching in Pre-higher education in Biology
  • Oct 2008-Aug 2010: 0.6 FTE teacher and team leader, 12-18 yo
  • Jan 2014-Jan 2021: coordinator of multiple courses, as volunteer, 8-18 yo
  • Sep 2019-Mar 2024: team leader of programming team, 13-38 yo
  • Sep 2022-now: coordinator of multiple courses, as volunteer, 8-88 yo
  • Mar 2023-now: teacher at UPPMAX, 18-88 yo

Teaching style

Style Example of how this looks like
Literate Follows a formal teaching cycle
Evidence-based Does 'cold calling'
Active learning Short lectures
Learner-centered Follows the pace of the learners
Learning community Fast learners learn by helping
Well-prepared Lesson plans, answers, videos
Transparent Publishing evaluations and reflections
Energetic Enthusiastic, sometimes talks too fast
What is a teaching cycle?

It is a formalized form of teaching that combines all evidence-based best practices in a workflow. My favorite teaching cycle:

flowchart TD
  prior_knowledge[Prior knowledge]
  present[Present]
  challenge[Challenge]
  feedback[Feedback]
  repeat[Repeat]
  prior_knowledge --> present
  present --> challenge
  challenge --> feedback
  feedback --> repeat
  repeat --> prior_knowledge

Evidence-based teaching cycle, from [Bell, 2020]

What is 'cold calling'?

Cold calling is, after asking a plenary question and giving all learners time to think, to as a random learner for the answer.

The goal of this is to get an idea of the full classroom's knowledge.

Why do 'cold calling'?

There are multiple reasons:

  • Active teaching: Cold calling ensures the whole class is active (and not just the ones that are used to raising their hands) [Bell, 2020][Eddy et al, 2015]
  • Inclusivity: Even in classes with around 50% women, only around 13% of all learner-to-teacher interactions are started by women [Ballen et al, 2018]. To include half of the learners, the teacher has no other option that to take the initiative here

Some learners really like it [3] and some really don't [4].

Why are lectures short?

Because lecturing hinders learning [2].

Why do you tell about yourself?

Because I should [Schwartz, 2012].

References

  • [1] https://github.com/richelbilderbeek/teaching
  • [2] See [Hattie, 2023], page 363, effect size is -0.26 with a robustness index of 4 out of 5 and is based on 3 meta analyses using 273 studies using 27,296 people, measuring for 614 effects with a standard error of 0.08. One example open access study is [Knight & Wood, 2005].
  • [3] Programming Formalisms 2024 autumn evaluation
  • [4] R-Python-Julia-MATLAB course, Python day
  • [Anderson & Krathwohl, 2001] Anderson, Lorin W., and David R. Krathwohl. A taxonomy for learning, teaching, and assessing: A revision of Bloom's taxonomy of educational objectives: complete edition. Addison Wesley Longman, Inc., 2001.
  • [Bell, 2020] Bell, Mike. The fundamentals of teaching: A five-step model to put the research evidence into practice. Routledge, 2020.
  • [Eddy et al, 2015] Eddy, Sarah L., Mercedes Converse, and Mary Pat Wenderoth. "PORTAAL: A classroom observation tool assessing evidence-based teaching practices for active learning in large science, technology, engineering, and mathematics classes." CBE—Life Sciences Education 14.2 (2015): ar23.
  • [Knight & Wood, 2005] Knight, Jennifer K., and William B. Wood. "Teaching more by lecturing less." Cell biology education 4.4 (2005): 298-310. paper
  • [Hattie, 2012] Hattie, John. Visible learning for teachers: Maximizing impact on learning. Routledge, 2012.
  • [Hattie, 2023] Hattie, John. Visible learning: The sequel: A synthesis of over 2,100 meta-analyses relating to achievement. Routledge, 2023.
  • [Hattie & Clarke, 2018] Hattie, John, and Shirley Clarke. Visible learning: feedback. Routledge, 2018.
  • [Schwartz, 2012] Schwartz, Beth M., and Regan AR Gurung. Evidence-based teaching for higher education. American Psychological Association, 2012.
  • [Ballen et al, 2018] Ballen, Cissy J., et al. "Politics a “chilly” environment for undergraduate women in Norway." PS: Political Science & Politics 51.3 (2018): 653-658.

My favorite literature

  • [Bell, 2020] Bell, Mike. The fundamentals of teaching: A five-step model to put the research evidence into practice. Routledge, 2020.
  • [Hattie, 2012] Hattie, John. Visible learning for teachers: Maximizing impact on learning. Routledge, 2012.
  • [Hattie, 2023] Hattie, John. Visible learning: The sequel: A synthesis of over 2,100 meta-analyses relating to achievement. Routledge, 2023.