An insight into Branding

Today we attended Micro-teaching sessions of our tutor-groups. We were required to bring along an ‘object’ which was a loose term for something to build a 20 min presentation around so that observers could watch your teaching style. Seema Aggarwal who develops digital strategies and has worked on The Lion King, delivered a smart session …

Short presentation – my work

https://sarajbyers.myblog.arts.ac.uk/files/2021/01/PGCert-Sara-Byers-Jan-21-7-images-as-pdf-smaller.pdf This is a welcome slide which a fellow PGCerter, Sanjeev Davidson, was kind enough to forward to me and now I use it in most of my PP presentations. I like to have it as the image students see whilst waiting for the PP’s to begin. This is a piece of collaborative art commisioned …

Micro-Teaching prep

This post is retrospective from 14th March before the micro-teaching sessions I’m prepping my micro-teaching session for Monday. I’m trying to find ice-breakers that are creative and will relate to my session but haven’t found anything yet that I feel confident enough in running for the first time. With the session only being 20mins long, …

Reflections on PGCert Readings for session on 11/02/21 a

Focussing firstly on a video by Lindsay Jordan as an intro to ‘Love and Belonging in the Educational Realm’ – the philosophy of Anna Julia Parker Realm’.https://moodle.arts.ac.uk/mod/url/view.php?id=557657 Quoting from the lecture: ‘Focussing on those who are on the margins of dominant systems and structures which can suppress. How can these be dismantled – its not …

Reading Reflection – Vilhauer, Gadamer and the Ethics of Play

(Excerpts from the text given in italics.) I began by investigating and exploring many of the terms used in this excerpt from the Ethics of Play by Vilhauer. Inclusion as a participant in the play of this text, in order to be drawn into the game and to fully engage whole-heartedly with the truth being …

Microteaching idea 14th March

This post is retrospective from 14th March I’m prepping my micro-teaching session for Monday. I’m trying to find ice-breakers that are creative and will relate to my session but haven’t found anything yet that I feel confident enough in running for the first time. With the session only being 20mins long, I don’t want to …

Micro-teaching session idea.

Micro-teaching session idea I’m considering using this image of Lázló Biró and his invention as my object for the micro-teaching session – Biros are miracle of engineering! I’ve also included here (below) an image of a piece of work I made of a tongue juxtaposed with an image of a ball-pen. I became interested in …

Micro-teaching 14th March 2021

This post is retrospective from 14th March before the micro-teaching sessions I’m prepping my micro-teaching session for Monday. I’m trying to find ice-breakers that are creative and will relate to my session but haven’t found anything yet that I feel confident enough in running for the first time. With the session only being 20mins long, …

Initial thoughts on taking the PGCert – Jan 2021

I’m feeling apprehensive about starting the PGCert. I’ve wanted to take this course for so long and to be able to enhance my practice – this will be my 4th att As a technician I am aware that this course might not be the best fit, I feel that it might be really geared towards …