Category: TPP

After a tutorial with Emily, and writing the last few blogposts, I’ve become more clear that empowering students through working towards a non-hierarchical environment is really my focus as a teacher. I also had a discussion with my colleague Prof. Andrea Zimmerman, whose approach really highlights this also, I feel. We were having a discussion… Continue reading Reflections on non-hierarchical learning

In a recent class for the performance as protest session, two students were having a heated discussion about the current war in Ukraine., sparked by artwork some other students had brought to the group tutorial. One student was coming from a perspective of being passionate about geopolitics and another being Ukrainian and arriving here again… Continue reading Learning about facilitation

Revisiting bell hooks’ Teaching to Transgress’, I found this quote that highlights for me potential reasons for reluctance to talk about race. This is something I want to explore as I think that in order to empower and unlearn biases, we need to talk about them. This is the quote: ‘The unwillingness to approach teaching… Continue reading Talking about race 3

I spoke to Dr Thandi Loewenson, a teacher at Royal College of Art about practical resources for learning about race. A couple weeks after our conversation she sent me this from Ruha Benjamin’s ‘Race after technology’: ‘Every year I teach an undergraduate course on race and racism and I typically begin the class with an… Continue reading Talking about race 2

Something I am thinking about is how to get students to think and reflect upon their racial position in the classroom. There are several reasons I think it is important for me to do this as a teacher on the BA Performance: Design & Practice course: Firstly, the course is diverse in someways, and not… Continue reading Talking about race

Some interesting points to note from this session: In the group discussion at the beginning, where we discussed a teaching resource we’d brought, Scott, a lecturer on the embroidery course shared a very detailed Project Document. It was about 6 pages and contained a very detailed break down of exactly what the students should include… Continue reading 26.01.22 Reflections on Teaching Strategies session

Today was the first session, where I met the rest of my PGCert tutor group and I’m feeling really inspired. A great way to start the term! Particularly useful was the break out room conversation I had with Suki and Anna. Here, I asked the question ‘how do we build trust online?’. For me building… Continue reading 10th Jan 2022 – Building a Community & Reading