Sessions 10 and 11

Session 10

Best teaching experience

We were asked to reflect on who our best teacher was and why. We were then asked to write this down on paper, switch the paper with the person beside us and introduce their best learning experience.

For me, I was inspired and motivated by a teacher in form 1. She held high standards and expected a lot from us.

I thought this was a useful activity to apply in this context.

+’s of the activity
- Sharing of experience, inclusive, non threatening

-s of the activity
- Can’t elaborate others learning experience

Nuddy set up a wiki called Mitwikeners on PBWorks. We had an online discussion regarding classroom space and layout and its impact on learning.

Session 11

For me session 11 was the best workshop in the whole series (well done Nuddy for putting together a great session). The session fully engaged me through doing a roleplay. Each group had a different teaching problems to address and had to come up with different approaches to effectively deal with the issues concerned. Our group dealt with how to get a resistant teacher on board with using online technology. I felt our team did a really good job on this within a short time frame. Nuddy filmed our sessions and asked us to write up our role plays. Unfortunately, according to Nuddy, our film was overwritten. As a result we have needed to rely on our memory in constructing our write up. I have constructed a write-up for our role play and it is currently being edited and updated by other team members.

Next we were asked to provide feedback on a question.

“If you give control to students, will they pick up the ball and run?”

Feedback in my group was mixed. Personally, I feel some will and some will not, depending on the task and the motivation of the student.

I tried giving control to a group of students I deliver workshops for and ran into some difficulties which I have discussed in my earlier write-up on a session that did not work too well.