(Screenshot from Sara’s Workshop recording)
I was paired up with Sara Massieu for my teaching review and I observed her teaching through a video recording and provided feedback in writing and over a call on teams.
LINK to feedback that I provided to Sara Massieu
Main takeaway:
Sara was very charismatic in her delivery for this online workshop. She has a very accessible way of talking about the topic, she does not use overly academic wording and from my observation I noticed students questions never focused on explaining wording. Questions were mainly practical.
In my experience, it is not often that I see teachers be as animated and energetic in an online space as they are in person, so this was a very pleasant surprise.
There was a lot of idea generation tasks in the workshop, but it seemed hard for the students to engage with their assigned groups over teams. So in my feedback I suggested taking some tasks out and task students with preparing them before starting the session. This way there will be more for the groups to share what they have generated and make more time for the other tasks.
In order to better support the different student groups I also suggested making use of breakout spaces so that they could talk more freely without other students observing them. I recommended that breakout rooms would always need 15-20 minutes as it takes a while for students to land in the separate space.
(Example of a reference presented to the group)
I was very impressed by the selection of references Sara provides for the students. Unlike my initial workshop slides she makes great use of visual examples in order to theme background for the slides and present clear examples of everything that she talks about to the group.