Today we had the first session in our tutorial group, lead by our tutor Emily Salines. We each introduced ourselves with a five minute presentation about our teaching practice as well as mentioning our other professional and creative identities. It was very interesting to hear about the work and experiences of the various colleagues who had very diverse careers and current practices. Each of us was also introducing an item or article we had chosen for this session to share with the others. I will show my presentation below. But first of all I wanted to talk about some teaching methods that Emily employed in the session that were really useful. There was at the very beginning an icebreaker activity, which helped to get us all relaxed and engage with each other in a fun way. It also helped to bridge the time until the arrival of two latecomers. Emily chose an exercise whereby we drew our desk-neighbour without looking at the paper. Here my picture of Dr Ulrike Oberlack 🙂
I have now started looking into various other icebreaker methods and am determined to include this in my teaching practice going forward.
Here my presentation and chosen research paper
Most of what I covered in my presentation I have already described in the earlier blog post, where I introduce myself, therefore I will not duplicate that here.