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Always needing to left justify my toast.

Teaching [stats] is...

Hey, I got promoted to Senior Lecturer (Learning & Teaching focus) effective Jan 1st 2025. Really excited to redesign my job description and scope as part of this. Thanks to everyone who held space for me to pull together the application amid many family health dramas.

Everything Danielle said. Embedding motivational principles in Learning and Teaching requires protected thinking time for quality curriculum design.

#LTHEchat Thinking about today's topic and thinking of where I was exposed to motivational philosophies. 1. In my secondary and tertiary teacher training 2. Had a PhD student who used SDT as a theoretical construct 3. In the academic integrity space as motivations for cheating

Actually it's proof read / rewrite two papers, one thesis chapter and two chapter reviews ... (In three days).

Playing with Dr Katherine Seaton new book. Plotting random sashiko embroidery on knitting. Perfect wardrobe item for a mathematician.

Well as an Australian fibre artist and knitter who is called Jo-ann, there's a thing I can cross off my bucket list. Wander if I can buy a store sign second hand and get it shipped down under?

Poffertjes for Pancake Day? Perfect way to celebrate the first day of teaching for the new semester. (As an aside, I worked out I am teaching first year stats for the 55th time in my teaching career and it's still awesome).

Us little multidisciplinary statisticians sitting there in the middle of the web. (Probably along with some ethicists, mathematical modellers and philosophers).

Do you export to Australia? I may have someone who needs all the help he can get with his putting.

Gonna take Jen's advice as this week ends with yet another University wide change paper (rationalising units and courses = losing more brilliant colleagues). Also knitting on through all crises as usual.

So that's how it works...

Presented without comment.

You know how you're prouder of some papers than others because it's your intellectual heavy lifting driving it? (Don't tell the rest of my papers where I'm playing the resident stats nerd). This one got it's first citation and I'm silently bouncing... Nice way to start a Monday.

Tidying up half a semester of my scrappy hadwritten meeting notes off my desk. This one needs to be shouted out to the world / into the void. "Stop being secretly excellent and be openly excellent". (Meeting about building a culture of excellence in learning and teaching).

I like Wayne's ideal world. As I research the pedagogy of written exams, I question whether they do test what we value in our disciplines. Any assesment reform needs to start with academics being clear what we value as important things to learn, demonstrate, apply and synthesise.

I actually work at one of those places where we can do most of these because small classes and the ability to closely interact with your students. But we also teach online and increasingly on campus students don't see the value of class time...