Just finished the second lot of teaching rounds.....just! Found the whole experience interesting and humbling. One thing is clear to me (which I already presumed), teaching is a hard job. You have to be a lot of things for a lot of different personalities. You have to be organised and plan ahead and you have to be calm and approachable.
I found that I only wrote on the whiteboard once, during the three week stint, and that I relied solely on, Powerpoint, Photoshop, Acrobat, Word and Youtube as my teaching devices. My whiteboard markers seemed so cold and lonely in my bag.
Prepping for a lesson with a laptop and a thumbdrive is an efficient and immediate way to teach. It did present problems however. My svhool was good in that all the technology was in working order and co-operated with me when I needed it to. I did fall into the trap of conducting classes like a lecturerer, which is not really anything to do with the technology, just the way I "drove it."
When I consciously changed my tact, and tried to implement some different teaching strategies, I found myself going back to more "traditional" worksheets and such.
I enjoyed the lecture this morning and will try to read as much as I can. When teaching software I found the terminology of choosing to be a "Sage on the Stage", and then to be a "guide on the side" particularly relevant to my Media and Digital Art based subjects.
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