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  Background In this Case Study, I will be talking about knowing and meeting the needs of diverse learners. This is particularly apparent in the DPS cohort which is made up of students from across the Screen School. The year is open to Home and International students, but the rules for both groups are different due…

This was a huge challenge. It made me really insecure about whether I do any actual teaching. I decided not to go ahead with my ‘Introduction to DPS. talk’ that I give to new students every year, and fished out a talk I did as an Academic Support Tutor a couple of years ago. I…

Working with Matthew, we categorised these post it notes below. I took the Employability section as I felt most confident here, and the social mission area. I mentioned that Climate, Racial and Social Justice should be added to reflect UALs values. Matthew focused on core teaching as this is his area. We were then asked…

We started the session by reading the Charismatic Lecturer – a piece about a lecturer who was very popular with students, in receipt of many favourable evaluations and someone whose lectures were well attended. However, when peer-reviewed, the reviewer noticed some key flaws, namely that the lecturer demonstrated bias and an inability to take on…

SummaryWe worked together to timeline some key milestones in education.   After this we moved to our first small group exercise, we were asked to derive a definition for social justice and list some component of fairer Higher Educations system. As a team we put together these notes: The definition of social justice in education was…

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Harris challenges the assumption of participation and active engagement, and reminds us that online forums are sympathetic to introverted learners. She offers three provocations: Reflection I found the reading challenging and hugely informative. As students are based outside of London, and even globally, many of our sessions are held online. As a programme, myself and…