It was apparent during the placement at DACA that if you did not have strong confidence, then the children would notice this and not respond to you as you wish. It is apparent that people will more likely respond to those who are calm and unnerved in their tone and body language and I noticed this from the first lesson I was placed in. Confidence, generally is something I struggle with as I am naturally a shy person and therefore when it comes to public speaking with new people, I struggle, however, as time went on it became easier.
Clare addressed this issue in one session, realising that this can not hinder us in any way due to having to hold an authoritative role with the children. She played us this clip by Amy Cuddy "Body Language shapes who you are". The clip spoke about "Fake it till you make it", which means, fake the confidence until you have confidence. This made an impression on me and I wanted to test this out, so in the evening I was out with people and decided to test this out and it did work, I did find I became more confident. It became apparent that I have to do this is in the workshop but it is also evident that I can use this skill in the future with interviews etc.
MicroTeaching Brief
For this unit, we have to complete a 10 minute Microteaching session to our peers. Introducing this, Anna performed a microteaching session on Art Direction to us. It was clear that she had managed to include all types of learners into the workshop, visual learners with the powerpoint and demonstration, audio learners by listening to her in the session and kinetic learners by allowing us to complete a task. Having these three types of teaching is something I need to consider in my own workshop in order to be successful.
Following this, we worked in pairs practicing teaching another person to make something out of plasticise. I personally found this to be very helpful as I had never performed a teaching session and working with Louise gave me things to improve on. For example, sometimes I can forget that others aren't keeping up with my pace or do not understand what I am trying to say and in order to comeback that I need to slow down and consider how I word what I am saying.
Anna advised us to keep the idea very simple as we only have 10 minutes and to do something that we specialise in or know a lot about. My background is in Fine Art, specialising in paint and I wanted to incorporate this into my session but have to make this very basic. Thinking about this, I have decided to look at the reactions of a water-based paint against a oil-based paint.
This is my basic lesson plan for the day. I realise that I need to practice this to other people to firstly, make sure that it works, to make sure that the timings run according to my plan and finally to make sure that I understand and know what I am talking about.
I have also created these handouts for my peers to give them some background knowledge of what we are using. I do not plan to read them out but rather allow them to follow up on them if they wish to know more, which follows on from the Delegator style of teaching I had learnt previously.
Over the next couple of days, I will go over my teaching session and have everything ready before the day. This will not only make sure I am prepared but will allow me to have time to sort anything out before the session if something goes wrong.
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