For last Monday, 13th July 2020, each of us had to prepare an 8 minutes long microteaching session featuring an object-based learning activity. To prepare for this I read this text by Kirsten Hardie, which had some great ideas in it: https://www.heacademy.ac.uk/system/files/kirsten_hardie.pdf However I had to think of a way how to adapt an object-based …
Category archives: Teaching and Learning
Peer Observation – me in the role of Observer
On Tuesday, 25th February, I observed Simon Kinneir teaching students at the Interior and Spatial Design department at Chelsea. The section I observed was divided in two parts: Part 1: The first half hour of the observation was a group tutorial with three students and two lecturers, Astrid and Simon. The students each presented their …
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Thoughts about the Teaching and Learning Unit Seminar on 17th Feb 2020
We started off with discussing some quotes of the Vilhauer text in smaller groups. I thought to myself “Oh, I am ready for this and I have quite a few things I see critically here” – if you read my last blog post you know what I mean. However the quotes that were chosen actually …
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Course reading and my thoughts about the texts
(I wrote this post ahead of yesterday’s seminar. The myblog.arts.ac.uk site had been down on Sunday though, so therefore I have only been able to upload it now.) The Teaching Excellence Framework: Short Guide Monica Vilhauer 2010: Understanding Art In preparation for the full cohort seminar tomorrow, Monday, 17th Feb, I have read the TEF …
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Peer Observation
Today Billy (Anastasios Kiosoglou) came to observe me at Central Saint Martins. I will add my OB1 form to the dashboard and I have also provided Billy with the OB1 form as well as the project brief. I am currently working with a small group of students, five students of our MA Applied Imagination in …
First session with my tutorial group on 20/01/2020
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 …
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First lecture of the Teaching and Learning Unit
There were two texts given to read prior to the first lecture of the Teaching and Learning Unit. One was a paper by Gloria Dall’Alba, titled “Improving teaching: Enhancing ways of being university teachers”. In the paper she discusses achieving this aim “through integrating knowing, acting and being”, whereby epistemology is serving ontology and is …
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