I’m no college professor in the sense that I haven’t finished my PhD yet, still I do am a teacher trainer in a university college in Ghent, Belgium. Before I became an educational scientist, I was a teacher in secondary education. This is probably why I can subscribe to much that Adam Golub describes in this piece on Hybrid Education: All I Needed to Know about College Teaching I Learned as a High School Teacher.

I really like his opening lines:

When people hear that I was once a high school English teacher and am now a college professor, they often ask, “how is college teaching different?” They expect I’ll say something about classroom discipline, or academic skills, or intellectual rigor, but I don’t. In fact, my answer is always the same: for me, teaching high school and teaching college are not that different. The pedagogical habits I developed as a secondary teacher have carried over into the university classroom and made me a better professor.

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