General Teaching Practice: Summary
| Idea | Best Opportunity for Use | Origin |
| Values of Education: Challenge all assumptions and status quo To educate everyone to the highest possible level Education for all citizens at all stage of life | Critical Sessions Across all years School Discussion | JW Lecture |
| Encourage projects in original language with translation Formal Language in assessment documents and presentations, not in tutorials Offer more support in developing ideas to be communicated verbally | Unit 2 ‘Unpacking the Issue’ project Across projects | VO Lecture |
| Building more silence and points for reflection into teaching | Workshops Unit 3, 4 Critical and Narrative Voice Workshops | Contemplative Pedagogy |
| Transparent about issues, problems and challenges Actively ask for advice Call on students to disagree with me and everyone | Teaching/Supporting Workshops/Tutorials | Delivery – LJ and JW |
| Adventure Learning in Assessment Literacy | Adventure Learning Biggs and Tang | |
| Encourage projects based on home countries- where you’re from Participation in name/pronunciation training Be ok with quietness and find other ways of gauging learning Allow rep participation to be written or read by someone else | Project Writing Training Tutorials Course Planning | Citizens of Somewhere Article |
| Band description exercise Importance of Drama | Assessment Literacy Workshops Workshops | Play and Measurement Session |
| Remember short timings can be emotionally positive Address emotion through activity Mental health and wellbeing embedded in discipline Offer up my own emotions and experience more Organisation is care Sharing positive experience rather than convincing anyone | Designing/Planning Teaching/Supporting Designing/Planning Tutorials/Workshops | Love and Belonging |
| Feedback Structures: Co-creation Quick Responses Students seeing things actioned Small Group and Big Group involvement in responses | Designing and Implementing Feedback Structures | |
| Cut down content Stop trying to cover so much Consider how responses could be valued even after a session Honesty, Energy, Enthusiasm The importance of working individually but together Power of being listened to Importance of structure responding to student | Planning Teaching/Supporting Teaching/Supporting Tutorials Planning/Teaching | Microteach |
| Emotions and feelings as important as learning outcomes Dramatic Friendship Agape | Teaching Supporting Relationships | LB Reading |
| Union of mind, body, spirit Learning and life Necessity of vulnerability Opportunities to learn cultural codes Need to explain philosophy Acknowledge pain of change Value of experience | Planning/Teaching | Bell Hooks |
| Student Voice Narrative | Course Planning | Denise Batchelor in Barnett |
| Confusion Thickets Nature of Student Journey Not over-teaching Gift-Giving Student’s needing to be seen as people Inspiration Teaching for uncertain times – open, daring, risky, unpredictable, spontaneity | Planning Teaching/Supporting | Barnett |
| Ensure I am clear enough with student when they are not doing well Ensure I am pushing students hard enough Breaking up tasks which require concentration with making exercise | Teaching/Supporting | Teaching Observation – Keren |
| Asynchronous resources must have a synchronous opportunity to discuss Create more community building projects (See other Idea Summary projects) Use explicit behaviour agreements in sessions Creating study groups to improve attendance Hold some silent tutorials and some tutorials where comments are pre-prepared, to help students with English as a second language | Designing/Planning Teaching/Supporting Assessment/Feedback | Case Studies |
| Leading through showing negative as well as positive and allowing people to be sad Building community online through intentionally creating space for managed conversation and icebreaking Disrupting stuckness through moments of reflection and calmness Increased direction and support on boundaries, behaviour, language, safeguarding and disclosure | Teaching Supporting | Teaching Observation – Lindsay |