In paper I aim to offer a critical reflection on my teaching praxis and how transformative my experience in education has been. From the time I was a student of Philosophy and Fine Art, to the time I began my journey in education as an SEN learning assistant and care support worker, up until this …
Category archives: Teaching and learning
Reflections on the Microteaching Sessions
B’s Micro-teaching session utilised the chat function. Our group was asked to imagine a room and describe it. He prompted us to think about particular elements in the room such as a cube, a horse, a ladder and even a storm. Each of us were given a minute or so to describe each element in …
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Feedback and Feed Forward
Enquiry : How you explore, ask questions and research the subject matter. Knowledge: How you gather relevant information pertaining to your area of interest and relate it to a wider context. Process: risk taking, experimentation, demonstrating how you have developed your idea through making process from start to finish. Communication: telling the story of your …
Seminar on Feedback and lack thereof.
Performitivity: we arent just talking about what we are saying we are thinking about the actual words spoken, the tone of delivery. Eventedness: Creating an event by personal adding touches. Who gets to embody the institution? Do institutional demands mitigate against open reflection? Max was opinionated in his views and lacked balance. He was openly …
Play and Measurement
We looked at the different ways that learning is measured. The metrics of what it is that we are looking for when assessing and feedback When we are measuring, there will always be things that we focus on and things that will inevitably miss out. Broad criteria of assessment invites nuances and different things to …
All About Love & The Ethics of Care
Things to consider: How do the sources relate to each other? How do they relate to your own teaching context? Summarise the content’s take-home points. Bell Hooks, All about love: Bell Hooks states that a Love ethic is born out of the scarcity of love in the world. In the context of the world today, …
Object based Learning TW Workshop
Subject What object-based learning is and how it can be beneficial in Art and design setting? Object based learning is a learning approach that uses objects to facilitate thinking and learning in a way that is multi sensory (sight, touch, smell, sound, taste) The objects are used to stimulate the learner’s imagination and to help …
How do we come to an understanding? Vilhauer on Gadamer and the concept of Play.
To be able to understand something involves questions around knowing. How do we come to know what we know? This is an epistemological concern. Knowing doesn’t happen in a vacuum (e.g: formalism: detaching the work from context and reducing it to its formal qualities) instead knowing happens during an ontological event, a happening of sorts. …
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First Group Tutorial with Rachel Marsden
I must admit that I felt very apprehensive before sharing. New people, new learning environment, abstracted by the ether of the internet. Nonetheless I felt relieved afterwards. I think it has to do with simply adjusting to learning remotely and getting to know everyone. The newness of it all! I feel very inspired after hearing …
Reflection on Introductory Lecture
Evaluate the teaching/organisational methods used During the session there were references to reports carried out by various educational and governmental institutions. The reports give a perspective on the current state of HE and how to approach teaching within the context of a pandemic. I noticed the gaps in representation in the bar graphs Mr Wisdom …