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Compassionate Assessment
I was taken aback by the seminar on compassionate assessment. I have always found assessment a bizarre process: it involves trust and vulnerability, empathy, as much as it does fairness and clarity. How do we assure parity and hold an overview of this process within the year, cohort, but also college? I am aware that…
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Teaching Through Silence
When is silence a useful teaching tool and how could it be applied? During the microteach session, one of my peers Peju used silence to teach knitting to the group. I was amazed at the effect of this method on the group. Peju was showing the group how to knit and we were meant to…
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Values and Ethics in Teaching
Today’s session was the most challenging yet. It focused on Values and Ethics, and asked participants to engage with written policy. The amount of documents was overwhelming, and the response of the group was distracting. There was a feeling of resistance towards the bureaucracy that surrounds teaching as a practice. I found myself responding in…
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Managing Emotions in Teaching?
Today we had our microteaching session which I really enjoyed. Yet, I did find it very emotional, as a lot of the short workshops were designed around, or highlighted challenging personal experiences. But even apart from that, learning and teaching are both vulnerable processes, so how is one to manage emotions in a teaching setting?…
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Introductory Workshop: 10.01.2023
It has been helpful to see what literature is recommended as part of the course, as well as to reconsider what references are already part of my practice that can be deemed relevant to educational contexts. In this case, I have chosen to re-read extracts from The Undercommons Fugitive Planning & Black Study by Fred…