KEY POST TWO- LINES OF ENQUIRY

KEY POST TWO-LINES OF ENQUIRY

The collaborative aspects have been good in some sense because you get to see how other people work. I find it interesting to see how different people react to the same thing and how they come at it from another angle.

In my group there wasn’t just textiles students there was also fine art, interactive arts and graphic design. All these students had many different ideas to consider and everyone had a different angel towards our main idea which was colour and emotions.

The learning styles I have gained from the collaboration aspects were that having group discussions helps if everyone turns up. The truth is that if you don’t turn up your ideas are not going to get involved. There is no point involving them if you’re not going to turn up to our meetings.

However I struggle around children because I don’t like the fact they are always asking questions and I thought I would struggle as a teacher but my peers helped me get over this because they all had these little tips to help me get over my fears. This was one of my best tricks I gained from collaborating because I wouldn’t have been able to do it on my own at this point.

Key developments I have found within this was the use of time management and the skills of working within a group. With only have a strict amount of time to create a full workshop for the students I found that the planning was the hardest. In my own practice I find it hard to stick to time management because am always rushing however I knew I couldn’t do it within the project because my peers were counting on me to do my part. This new approach of having peers count on you. I liked this pressure because it pushes me to do more for the group. For example I was panicking about my microteaching because I wanted my peers to have fun and enjoy themselves and by having that pressure made me push myself more because I wanted to do great in the teaching.

The impact of the collaboration on my methods of working were how organised others were and how they all over thought about what they were going to.

All my practical work is to do with experimenting. This is what I taught in my microteaching however I struggled in finding learning objectives and aims to match them, were others found them easy to identify. I was interested in how they could relate to my work and how they found new ways of working from me. I wanted to influence them. All my peers taught me different aspects to take forward in my own practical work such as time management and how I can change aspects to match different learning styles.

The unexpected developments that arose is that I don’t want to teach in a sense of telling the children and students what to do. However with the microteaching I enjoyed showing my peers new ways of working and how different art can be. I found it interesting that I got so much out of teaching them for 10 minutes. I think this is because I was teaching them something I enjoy and it is something I do in my own practice.

 

The creative responses that I have developed in this project and within my microteaching is that I may find it difficult to create key objectives and learning outcomes but I have this edge and angel that I approach things towards. I want to make more interesting experiences for everyone.

The key aspects are that I have all these crazy mad ideas which involves all these materials which links more to the multisensory. My practical work links all with materials and senses that is why I found it more interesting to learn more about the students with learning difficulties. I found that they could push me to my limits. With learning about all this multisensory I feel like my work does belong somewhere and it could help children and students communicate in another way.  

I need to research and underpin more about the multisensory learning style because I feel like am not going to enjoy teaching because I don’t have the organisation skills for it however my practical work all links with this use of senses and commutations to others. Also I think this could help with ideas and influences for my future development work.

The plan of action now is to get everyone else more involved and to make sure others turn up for our meeting to discuss plans for the workshop. Everyone needs to know there jobs and what they need to do before the final workshop with students. We all have commutation with each other so if there is a problem we can sort it out as soon as possible.