This week we had our first tutorials for STS1 and its now time to start blogging my thoughts. I am a HPE student and so my tutorial took place in the Lake G College gym. The session was mostly interesting though occasionally a little tiresome.
We engaged in "circle time" for the vast majority of the class and while I can see the value that circle time can have in the classroom I felt that yesterday (in the tutorial) the circle time went too long and many of us began to tire and lose interest. What I did enjoy were the introduction games and the way that everyone had an opportunity to express themselves. In addition, our tutors gave us a chance to voice our opinion on what we wanted to learn in these sessions. I look forward to covering the material that the class suggested!
The theory part of the class focused on curriculum and quality teaching. We were asked to give our own definition of curriculum in our reflective writing so here it goes:
Curriculum, for me, is all of the prescribed learning and experiences that a student engages with in the school environment. It is the means through which the syllabus is delivered. Outisde of this, but obviously closely related, hidden curriculum encompasses all the elements of school life that are not explicity prescribed.
Finally, the session closed with an activity related to quality teaching. We got off our seats, moved around and played an active game then, as a result, formed groups on the floor of the gym in order to participate in a matching activity. It worked really well and broke up the lesson nicely at the end.
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