Link to resources provided for review – https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1mkcGsVJqrkYwu8exRcdui6dNzd4SqB_c?usp=sharing
Hey Antonella 🙂Â
Firstly I just wanted to say thank you for being my partner for this observation, I thoroughly enjoyed looking through the lecture notes you sent me. It looks to me like a wonderfully thought out module which is very engaging for the students. I think we covered this well in the recorded meeting the other day but below are the few ideas I had that we spoke about.
Maintaining Student focus – Breaking up the information
Something that I think might be helpful within the main body of the lecture is to break this up with some physical activity to help solidify the students’ understanding of this information. The slides you have presented are wonderfully informative, however I think depending on the learner this could possibly feel overwhelming if they are new to the ideas.
Something that I think might help to settle some of this information and the group is to split them off into smaller teams after the first 30 – 45 minutes of the lecture and prompt them to discuss some of the content.
Exercise idea – 15mins/20mins
Split the class into smaller groups, get them to discuss and write down a list of the ethical concerns. Then they have to try and think up how you can practically mitigate this, again matching this to what they have written down.
You could then open up the discussion by getting each team to name a concern and how they would mitigate it. You would then be able to cover the next few slides of information in a more conversational way, as you move into defining the practicalities of conducting research.
Thoughts on language used
To me the slides you have presented are clear and well written, however there might be a bit too much information presented on them at one time. I think splitting this into two separate handouts (personally I would go physical if possible and put them on moodle ofc) one a glossary of terms as you have suggested, but another with some of the facts/legislation on.
With any dates/legislation etc I think for the students it would be best to be able to come back to this at a later date and review. By losing some of the information on the slides it puts more focus on your verbal points in the moment.
A glossary of terms I think also would be an exceptional idea! Students often are not as equipped with the terminology they need and adding this as an asset I think would be a great addition to the lecture. If this is available on moodle beforehand as well, those who chose to use it might have a better retention from the session.
Handouts for forms
In the practicalities segment of this lecturer when you are giving information of the consent forms etc, do you have any physical examples in class? I think this would be really useful for the students to see an example during the session.
Class exercise
Something here which might be useful, is to hand out/give a digital example before the break of a piece of freewriting. On their break ask them to give this a quick read and for them to think about the form/way it is written, what it is etc. I feel this prompt will be useful to the students if they haven’t had much experience of doing this practice before.
Breathwork exercise?
Additionally you might want to seed the idea of using breathwork to center themselves before they begin to write/observe. Introducing the idea of a simple counting from 5 – 1 slowly in time with nose to mouth breathing as an exercise in finding stillness. I’ve seen this work quite effectively in class before to help bring collective clarity before they begin the task.
Thank you again for pairing with me for this exercise, I really enjoyed our chat the other day 🙂
Link to completed ROT for Antonella – https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uVcdP_4dnwhdO5K5TQYZ-XPSDzYsrq3i/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=110209103505110704763&rtpof=true&sd=true