Reflective Learning Journal_WEEK 15

Final session

The main points I have learnt from this session / assessment are:

I have enjoyed the past 15 weeks and learned a great a variety of skills that will help me. I have worked on completing my final hand in of my completed Portfolio of work.

How I could develop my practicals skills as a result of this session / assessment:

I will develop my time management skills, as I feel this has been quite a weak area. Also my dyslexia has become very problmeatic while

writing the eassys, so I will find practical ways to deal with this in the future. I will also work on my presenting skills.

How I could develop my knowledge and understanding as result of this session / assessment:

I will research other websites that can help me find ways to deal with it. Through all the knowledge I have gained I am excited about persuing work as a community arts teacher.

Reflective Learning Journal_WEEK 14

30 min Micro presentations

Group 2

The main points I have learnt from this session / assessment are:

It was great watching and particapating in my peers workshops, I have learnt a variety of new skills and ideas of how to present and make an engaging session.

How I could develop my practicals skills as a result of this session / assessment:

I would like to develop my presentation skills as watching my peers, I realised that I do get nervous infront of students, so practice would be good in cambing my nerves. Also using diffenrt teaching methods.

How I could develop my knowledge and understanding as result of this session / assessment:

I am going to research, other engaging teaachng methods and tools.

Reflective Learning Journal_WEEK 12

Legislation:

Community teaching/projects.

Maggy Ritchie – Director of ACE (Arts Community Exchange)

The main points I have learnt from this session / assessment are:

Maggie explained the background of ACE, which was interesting, listening how she has built up her business. Also ACE has did alot for teh local community and introducing local children to the arts which I found very inspiring.

How I could develop my practicals skills as a result of this session / assessment:

I will research current legislation that surrounds the group of students that i want to teach e.g adults with learning disbailties so that I can have a clear idea of issues of legislation that connects directly to them.

How I could develop my knowledge and understanding as result of this session / assessment:

I will research 5 legislations, and incorporate them into my essay.

Maggy Ritchie – Director of ACE (Arts Community Exchange)

Reflective Learning Journal_WEEK 13

Group 1

30 min presentations

The main points I have learnt from this session / assessment are:

That it is important to have variety of leanring styles. By delivering my mini session. I have leanrt that I can present my session confidnetly even I was nervous.Also planning is a good way to feel in control and present well.

I have also leanrt i can assess through verbal questioning.

How I could develop my practicals skills as a result of this session / assessment:

I used  VARK from the start and work my way through the learning styles in my session : Visual/Aural/Read-Write/Kinaesthetic.

I will develop my practical skills by referring to VARK to evidence my understanding of learners needs and to help design my session.

When preparing my session I will use a selection of visual studying strategies to engage with my students, Also using a power point presentation to incorporate images, text to illustrate the idea of the mind map. The students then used these ideas in their own mind map.

I will  initiated aural study strategies, into the session, where I described the ideas of a mind map to my student’s by using pictures they were then required my to discuss the topic with the other students and I to generate ideas.

When I  created the reading and writing strategies, I took into consideration those of my students who would have preference to reading and writing. I created a handout to explain the fundamentals of creating a mind map.

Those of the student’s how have strong preference for Kinesthetic (doing) learning, I created a 10 minutes activity the incorporated taking all the prior information form the session to create a mind map.

How I could develop my knowledge and understanding as result of this session / assessment:

I will reserach studying teaching techniques from the internet.

Reflective Learning Journal_WEEK 10

Learning/Teaching resources Leadership

The main points I have learnt from this session / assessment are:

Today I learned about How to asessessement. I feel i need to start thinking about how I will assess the learning with my students, this will help me with the design/planning of your session

How I could develop my practicals skills as a result of this session / assessment:

It gave me ideas of how to implemeting some of my own teaching resources, a key thing that my tutor mentioned was that students DO appreciate the tutor spending time on props. Also using music in the class, could be a very practical way of setting the class at ease.

How I could develop my knowledge and understanding as result of this session / assessment:

When in the class the tutor gave us web links to further get teaching resources.

Reflective Learning Journal_WEEK 9

Kids Company Stress and it’s effects on

adolescent brain development.

The main points I have learnt from this session / assessment are:

Today I learned about the other students and there ideas what to use for teaching resources,
the class tutor explained about his successful teaching resources. He used a photgraphic of a specific style of photography called “Daguerereotype” he was a great visual to show the class and worked well as a focal point. Another student used a camera, this was great as it worked in a few aspects, documenting the work, showing the artistist work. Having this as a added prop could be very useful!

How I could develop my practicals skills as a result of this session / assessment:

It gave me ideas of how to implemeting some of my own teaching resources, a key thing that my tutor mentioned was that students DO appreciate the tutor spending time on props. Also using music in the class, could be a very practical way of setting the class at ease.

How I could develop my knowledge and understanding as result of this session / assessment:

When in the class the tutor gave us web links to further get teaching resources.

Reflective Learning Journal_WEEK 8 video blog

Reflective Learning Journals_WEEK 1

Ground Rules..Introduction

The main points I have learnt from this session / assessment are:

Today I learned about the other students and some of there ideas and aspirnations for the course.

I need to focus on my target group and what I will have to teach them.

How I could develop my practicals skills as a result of this session / assessment:

I will approach my local charity Larche in West Norwood and share ideas with them on the first stages of conducting a workshop..

How I could develop my knowledge and understanding as result of this session / assessment:

Reflective Learning Journal_WEEK 5

Teaching resources/Health & Safety-Risk assessment.

The main points I have learnt from this session / assessment are:

The class and I discussed ideas surrounding the micro presentation. Our tutor explained that it could be something that we already

have knowledge of. My initial and final idea was presenting the basic concept of a mind map! (I have uploaded a basic one of the ideas that were going through my head while in class!

How I could develop my practical skills as a result of this session / assessment:

Through having the initial idea for the topic for the workshop, I wanted to create a mind map of ideas for what i would incorporate into the session. e.g health and safety, ground rules, resources.

How I could develop my knowledge and understanding as result of this session / assessment:

As a student I was aware of the quick benefits of creating a mind map, but know as a tutor, the change was to develop my role and communicate what I had personally learned and present back to the students. I intend to look a various on-line resources to help me develop my session.

Reflective Learning Journal_WEEK 6

10 minute Micro Presentation

The main points I have learnt from this session / assessment are:

Today I actively participated in various 10 minute micro sessions. This was a great opportunity to experience first hand everyones different skills and ideas. Varying from a Building a house of cards,(which was tricky but fun!) I  found the hand out was very clear and easy to understand.There was also a follow-up link if you wanted to find out more, which I felt was useful!

Also another student presented us with more of an abstract idea that promoted us to create and image then reflect on it,which was interesting. There was an engaging game of musical chairs that everyone participated in and the purpose of it was to promote a photographing technique.

How I could develop my practical skills as a result of this session / assessment:

Through participating in these sessions i will think about the various individual learning styles and reflect on them, as to which one I feel could possible help me to expand on my own project.

How I could develop my knowledge and understanding as result of this session / assessment:

Over the next  week I will build on my prior learning and begin to structure my micro session.