One Thing I Underestimated As A Professor

By: Bethany Huebner

Published on: 30/07/2019

Providing students and/or employees with feedback is a must. Providing feedback communicates you care about that person; you care enough about the person to encourage their growth and to facilitate their learning. Feedback isn’t about disingenuous fluff or providing false confidence. Good feedback is instructional and facilitates the student or employee to move forward in a positive way. But how is it best structured? How can we maximize results?

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When the "hook" needs the "loop"

By: Bethany Huebner

Published on: 25/06/2019

What does velcro and learning have in common? A great analogy for one, but two neuroscience researchers have identified that while new information is in our working memory, our brain actually searches our long-term memory for any previously stored information that correlates or relates to this new information. Once the brain establishes a connection, the Velcro connection is made, and new neural connections are built that allow us to access the information at a later date when necessary easily.

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The Last Hurdle

By: Bethany Huebner

Published on: 06/05/2019

But, I didn’t realize until recently that I was actually stopping before I cleared the last hurdle. I wasn’t finishing at all. I was missing the all-important last hurdle: self-reflection. When you get to the end of a semester you are weary, you don’t feel like you can do one more thing. But, it is exactly at that moment when you need to push yourself to do this one more thing.

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The Path to Dr. Dr.

By: Bethany Huebner

Published on: 17/12/2018

My grandpa use to always say that "all roads lead there." (He didn't have the best sense of direction, but man that saying applies to just about everything). My path to Dr. Dr. hasn't been straight and has taken a bit longer than most, but here are my 4 reasons why I chose to enroll in a PhD program this spring and begin my journey of becoming a Dr. Dr. (DPT, PhD).

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