Category Archives: The Journey
Positionality statement.
I am an Irish white male, a middle child from a council estate background. I was born pre-good Friday agreement in Northern Ireland, my family history is Irish Republican, and we stand for a United Ireland. This might give a … Continue reading
Unit 2: Inclusive practice
Seminar one. To digest the content of how we have been placed in an online learning environment, working with a chat box and content being spoken, is a chaotic learning experience and not a place to build physicality in learning … Continue reading
Micro-sessions from my peers.
The micro-teaching session was a really fun and exciting day, after going first I had some great observations and reflections on my own skills and took this day as a learning day. Alix – Laptop image of a Jordan shoe … Continue reading
Beyond the tips of my fingers.
I was alerted of the ELIA community (LINK) by my line manager, who was in attendance at the most recent technical summit. Here she sent me a link to Tim Savage and requested that I should reach out, that was … Continue reading
Community Practice with Colechi
Colechi (LINK) A brief extract from their website. “We are Colèchi – a multidisciplinary insight collective and agency teaching sustainable development in the fashion industry. We collaborate with thought-leaders, brands, education and government to build locally focused projects to understand, … Continue reading
Cohort Seminar #2 Utopian Thinking
Defining key terms and understanding the methods of research on canvas. The second half of the cohort seminar was around utopian thinking and using a guided structure to find and source materials within the UAL canvas system to help us … Continue reading
Cohort Seminar #2 Values and Ethics
20/02/2023 Tim Stephens & Chris Rowell (Linda absent) Overall the day was probably the best I’ve experienced so far, although some of the tasks were confusing (personally I thought it was my knowledge, but others had similar difficulties). I did … Continue reading
Spring School (INSIGHTS PROJECT)
This year, I have joined the insights team, to build on my teaching skills through a mixture of students that are pre-higher education entry level. Hopefully providing me with a more rounded knowledge on inclusive education that teaches across all … Continue reading
Micro Teaching and Learning session
08/02/2023 – Vygotsky’s Zone of Proximal Development VIDEO LINK FOR THE TEACHING AND LEARNING MICRO-SESSION A 15minute micro teaching session, hosted by Santanu Vasant. The concept, zone of proximal development was developed by Soviet psychologist and social constructivist Lev Vygotsky (1896 – … Continue reading
Microteaching
A challenge of 20 minutes and 6 hours of reflection, observation, and respect. Above is my mini PowerPoint that I used as a guide for my micro-session, I finished within 17 minutes and 30 seconds, which gave my peers two … Continue reading