Category: Reflections on readings for the pg cert

TUTORIALS Though I conduct tutorials for neurodiverse students, I believe all students can benefit from 1-2-1 tutorials at various times throughout university. Not all teaching staff is comfortable with carrying them out. Reasons vary for this, but certainly there is an intensity in this setting as there is no group to disperse energy away from… Continue reading Policies and Practices of 1-2-1 tutorials by Denise Aitken

Blog from peer observation session discussing case studies. There was substantial objection to case study teacher who is perceived by fellow peer as being self-absorbed in their teaching style – based on their seemingly singular presentation of perspectives on the classroom topics. This dominant style was criticised for its oppressiveness, and lack of sensitivity concerning… Continue reading reflections on MacFarlane case study

Notes/blog on Callendar and Curry  National descriptors appeared from my line manager at some point in the noughties during my adult literacy teaching in south London, mystifying and linked to an enormous government online document that listed their denotations.  Slightly alarmed at this development but set on avoiding it, I continued to seek what was in my students’ minds in order to build… Continue reading Notes/blog on Callendar (2005) and Curry (2017): tensions between the magical world of learning and the burden of hitting achievement (Denise Aitken)