Step Up Your Grade
Following my recent post on Assessment and as suggested in a feedback comment on that post, I am adding a few notes on a just piloted session titled Step Up Your Grade, which is being developed by members of the …
Microteach session 17 March 2021
I found this session fun and enjoyable with some really positive interactions between everyone in the group. It was really interesting to see how everyone had taken such individual approaches to the task, depending on specialism as well as personality, …
Workshop: Bending the Rules with Dr Gurham Singh
On March 18th this year, I attended an online workshop with Dr Gurham Singh titled Bending the Rules: Enhancing Assessment for Equity. This session was organised by the AEM team and is available through the AEM and Attainment Resources Moodle page. …
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AEM, Equality vs Equity, Assessment
Student attainment is an important area of focus for the University. As part of my role at LCF, I have since my start in autumn 2019 been taking part in several AEM (Academic Enhancement Model) meetings focused around this topic. …
Monitoring Attendance with Love
As I have settled in to my role as a Pastoral Year Tutor, I have become more and more focused on how attendance is directly linked to attainment. In my experience, there is almost always a reason why a student …
Session w/c 1st March: Feedback
Video: Performing to an Invisible Audience (25 min)URL Comments / highlights on above video – from this week’s resources: “Perfection can be a barrier to connection.” – (I noticed in our class that many other picked up on this too.) …
Creating an online Community
After an extremely intense autumn term, when the plans I had started drafting before the students started were immediately sidelined due to more urgent issues, I have in these last couple of months since the start of the spring term …
Reflections / notes on session: w/c 15th February
This week – due to a clash with an AEM meeting I must attend on the Wednesday afternoon – I joined Emily Saline’s Group A Monday am session. The class was very enjoyable and I met some great people. Following …
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Notes and Reflections on Love, Care & Belonging
Text Read: The Art Of Loving In The Classroom : A DefenceOf Affective Pedagogy – Notes / reflections below: The relationship between student and teacher is very important. It is not enough for a student to be simply handed the …
About group discussions: 4 February 2021
Featured image: whiteboard from PgCert session – responses to how do you tend to behave in a group discussion? The first part of this session included a question: How do I tend to behave in a group discussion? My answer …