No doubt it was nerve-racking to have my tutor Santanu observe my teaching session with year 1. To give the session context, it was a briefing for their new unit ‘Media Exploration’; which introduces them to narrative development and technique methodologies for moving-image.
Santanu’s feedback was insightful, as those insecurities when deploying techniques to ask students to elaborate on their comments beyond ‘it’s cool…’ or ‘it’s interesting…’ were addressed. No doubt my aim is to push them to speak critically about lecture examples etc. Santanu’s advice is to provide them further references on Moodle or asking them clearly ‘I want fuller description about…’ can surely help my intentions.