Micro- Teach -20 min
The Micro – Teach I received some invaluable feedback about my presentation, which I will be definitely utilising during my own sessions, also reading my other peers blogs it has interesting reading about their experiences, their own teaching practises it has been quite useful to see different methods and techniques that they use within their own lessons and how this enhances the student-centred learning. During the presentation I was aware of and conscious of silence in response to the session aims, discussions. Over the last couple of months during tutorials, we’ve spoken about “silence” and what it constitutes, I think that there were silences, but it wasn’t necessarily uncomfortable, I think that you have to be self-assured and comfortable that silence is open interpretation, it can often be synonymous with and can interpreted in many ways from: being uncomfortable, awkwardness, reflection. I think that initially I wasn’t sure about the reception for the lesson. I was initially confident about the content, but I didn’t know if would be overtly controversial. I was really happy that everyone engaged with the session and overall, I think the lesson objectives / aims were met and discussed.
The premise of the session was: –
I. Look at what it means to be the object and subject within art.
II. Look at how these frames the cultural, historical context within contemporary culture.
III. Look at how we respond aesthetically and pragmatically.
Questions to consider:
I. Is there a difference between an object and a subject within a painting and can the relationship be symbiotic?
II. How does this present itself within the educational context and within our own respective research practices?
III. How do we think about representation?
IV. Can you be both the subject and the object within a painting and how does your positionality affect the perspective of the painting?
I was very nervous, to begin with, it’s was the first actual teaching session that I was conducting and although it was a session that was curtailed for my peers, it would be interesting to see how this translates to a different audience. Although the aim of the session was object-based learning pragmatically the transition to planning a tutorial, lecture, or workshop the environment will be completely different as the session needs to be in line with the course handbook and modules and the students have to benefit from and utilise the sessions in a way that is relatable to the course. I think that this will be quite challenging, especially on an online platform because the course that I am teaching on (product design) is geared towards making. From my understanding although conceptually products made are theorized, remodeled through various phases of the design process, ultimately the practical element is just as important as the theory. Taking everything into consideration I will need to plan tutorial, workshops which touches on my experience but ultimately, I need to have more of understanding and educate myself more in-depth about the course.