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b'Teaching teachers about teaching; lets get super-meta.\\n\\nThe Teaching Course. It\\u2019s in Alcatraz, Brisbane and Copenhagen. It\\u2019s in Melbourne, Manchester and Manila. I\\u2019d be exhausted just thinking about it if it didn\\u2019t sound like so much fun.\\n\\nSalim Rezaie is a softly spoken, erudite, talented attention avoider. He want\\u2019s to credit someone else, he wants you to be happy, he wants to perfect the next slide for his next talk. He doesn\\u2019t want to give his next talk quite as much as make the slides but we, the consumers of his inimitable style, are not complaining. Instead we are signed up subscribers, following and forwarding his work because it\\u2019s good, very good. \\n\\nSalim is a bit of a pro. He started out on ALIEM. He started RebelEM as a blog and then he got a podcast up and running. He got into this whole education thing, the #FOAMed thing, and from his involvement he became increasingly interested in the processes of the whole teaching/training/learning/simulating/feedback thing. So much so that he realised that there was an appetite, a need, for a resource that helps teachers get better at teaching. So we are educators, we are motivated, we know some stuff, but we are often isolated within our various institutions as the education woman or man. We don\\u2019t have our own little cadre of education enthusiasts close by to ask for help, to compare notes, to share techniques. \\n\\nSo Salim set one up. He formed a team. He is the leader but he is an incredibly modern type of super-collaborative empathic leader. He is soaking up ideas from all sources. He has gathered a group of super-impressive women and men that help him out. Let\\u2019s think for a second about the Teaching Course Faculty. To shed light on this lets bring in my resident philosophical conundrum machine; Cormac.\\n\\nMy son Cormac asks me some very important questions. Last week he asked me a good zombie apocolypse question; \\u201cCome the Zombie Apocolypse which of your friends would you bring along to help you survive?\\u201d That is an interesting question, it is a thought experiment in utilitarian ethics. \\n\\nI\\u2019d suggest there are a few candidates in the Teaching Course faculty;\\n\\nPhotos\\n\\nOf course one would have to get into the whole #MetaMoments thing that The Teaching Course is embracing, that means feedback, lots of feedback. The imagined \\u201cFlipping MedEd Zombie Apocalypse Survival Team\\u201d would be giving and receiving lots of feedback. There would be lots of eye contact and hugs. Hopefully not too much to distract them from the zombies which would give the wrong sort of feed back altogether.\\n\\n\\u201cWhats that noise? Feedback! I hate feedback. No, wait, hang on, I love feedback.\\u201d Neil Young.\\n\\nIt is a love hate thing for many of us, but then have you ever been taught how to take feedback? Give it, maybe, but take it? We can tease ourselves for being a bit meta about all this stuff but there is a reason we are talking about it. If we are mentoring young nurses and doctors, if we are running simulation sessions, (and we are), then we do need to think about all this and more.\\n\\nThe Teaching Course is a constantly evolving set of distinct and imaginative units. There\\u2019s a presenting skills, simulations skills, there\\u2019s mindfulness stuff, there\\u2019s an awful lot in there. If you are an educator then this course is definitely worth a look. It is so good you may wish to go more than once.\\n\\nI would. I\\u2019d go just to get more down-to-earth wisdom from probably my favourite Texan. (Apologies to Cordell Walker.) \\n\\nAccidental old fashioned sage and reluctant FOAMed star, it\\u2019s Salim Rezaie @srrezaie \\n\\nCheck out these Jellybean Podcasts with other Teaching Course Faculty;\\n\\nVictoria Brazil\\nNatalie May\\nSimon Carley\\nJesse Spur\\nChris Nixon\\nLiz Crowe\\nAshley Liebig\\nChris Hicks\\nKat Evans\\nAndy Tagg\\nMads Astvad\\nSandra Viggers\\nPaul Grinzi\\nRoss Fisher\\nJulie Derrenger\\nSalim Rezaie\\n\\nIt\\u2019s like a Jellybean Playlist. I might go and build that Playlist on SoundCloud.'