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Teacher change matters: 3 examples

Brachah Kathrin Viehrig 4. March 2020 Teacher Education, Teachers' use of research No Comments
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 …
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How to write a teaching philosophy statement: 10 helpful questions to get you started

Brachah Kathrin Viehrig 27. February 2020 Teacher Education No Comments
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 …
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Concept cartoons: teaching for conceptual change

Brachah Kathrin Viehrig 20. February 2020 Teaching materials, concept cartoons, Conceptual change, Learner and teacher conceptions No Comments
Concept Cartoons
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 …
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Crafting better syllabi

Brachah Kathrin Viehrig 12. February 2020 Teacher Education No Comments
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 …
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Lessons learned from the online presence of 16 geography education professors

Brachah Kathrin Viehrig 5. February 2020 Publications No Comments
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 …
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Students publishing mini-research projects

Brachah Kathrin Viehrig 30. January 2020 Teachers' use of research, Teacher Education No Comments
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 …
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Improve your h-index with these 10 practical strategies

Brachah Kathrin Viehrig 29. January 2020 Publications 2 Comments
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 …
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The GeoConcepts Blog

Brachah Kathrin Viehrig 23. October 2019 Learner and teacher conceptions, Teachers' use of research No Comments
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 …
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Public Judaism?

Brachah Kathrin Viehrig 23. October 2019 Uncategorized No Comments
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 …
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US minorities and digital choices

Brachah Kathrin Viehrig 4. August 2019 Blended Learning, Teacher Education No Comments
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 …
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