Author: Brachah Kathrin Viehrig

Reading Time: 3 minutes Teacher change matters. But the idea of change is much more popular than actual working on changing. It’s actually really easy to not change. You …

Reading Time: 6 minutes Teaching philosophy statements are an important part of hiring and tenure. They are also good for reflective teaching practice. As Stephen Brookfield writes: ““Teaching is …

Reading Time: 3 minutes Definition of concept cartoons Concept cartoons are often used in science education. They show different ideas on a topic, e.g. with stick figures or comic …

Reading Time: 2 minutes The new semester is soon starting. This made me think about effective syllabi. There are a lot of general checklists out there e.g. 8,9,10,11. But …

Reading Time: 4 minutes Scott Young, in a guest post on Cal Newport’s Study Hacks, advices to look at people who are a few steps ahead in the career …

Reading Time: < 1 minute This semester was the third time a GEOFD22 course collaboratively worked on and  published a mini-research project (in German). The first time (autumn term …

Reading Time: 6 minutes I recently came across an interesting discussion on ResearchGate1 about how to get cited more. Since it’s an important measure for academics – often in …

Reading Time: 2 minutes A lot of the assignments for pre-service teacher students are done just for their own personal development or for sharing with a particular class. These …

Reading Time: < 1 minute Public History Weekly is an international, multi-lingual blog journal. Recently, I’ve published an article there on the differences between the concepts Public History and …

Reading Time: 7 minutes The US map reflects some of the country’s history of immigrations: New York (not the ‘old’ York in England); Berne (NY), Lucerne (PA) and Zurich …