My Microteach session exemplified an exercise I would do with students on an Insights course. It’s based on an activity I would build in at the beginning of a session, encompassing inclusive teaching and active participation principles. I find a quick drawing tasks work well as ice breakers, encourage students to approach mark-making in different …
Category archives: Teaching and Learning
Responding to Lindsays research: what is it that the student wants me to hear?
Dilesh drew comparisons between their experience of studying at CSM with the experience they think they could have had at the Slade. Describing how the two buildings made them feel, Dilesh mentioned the sense of coming together fo ‘students from every quarter’ at UCL compared with a more false sense of exchange represented by glass …
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Reflecting on Macfarlane & Gourlay 2009: Enacting the Penitent Self
At the centre of the article is a comparison between reflective assignments, as a means of charting learning and development, with the dramatic arc of a ‘star in the making’ on reality TV. Macfarlane and Gourlay delineate the prescribed stages of a student teachers reflective journey. Moving through; a penitent admission of our failings, to …
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March Seminar – Feedback
Today we considered giving and receiving Feedback, particularly in the online environment. We first reflected on Performing to an Invisible Audience a video by Hattie Walker and Helen King. The video focused on the performative nature of teaching in the online space. Walker offered practical tips on how to foster authenticity and engagement in online …
Love, Care and Belonging
In todays Tutor Group we reflected on love, care and belonging in education. The session felt intimate and personal as we split in to various small groups to discuss thoughts and ideas arriving from the source materials and previous conversations. Choosing from a range of references I focused mainly on ‘Ethics of Care’ as summarised …
First tutor group
I found my first meeting with my tutor group a positive and stimulating experience. Hearing from a range of creatives about their UAL roles, as well as their personal practice was the hilight for me. In my presentation I gave a very brief introduction to myself and my practice, followed by a summery of and …
Am I an educational policy nerd?
No, by any measure nerd status would not be afforded here. However, after attending my first PG Cert taught session I was surprised (and kinda proud) that I found the talk from James Wisdom the most fascinating. I definitely wouldn’t define myself as someone who goes in for charts and stats, but after being involved …