The segment dedicated to planning our teaching was especially helpful in organising my thoughts on how to prepare for the session I am scheduled to run on the 16th of February 2023: a library briefing for the second year BA students on the PDT programme at Wimbledon. Looking at the brief (for the unit that the session supports) using four areas suggested in today’s workshop was helpful in starting to plan the session:1. Questions to be answered 2. Opportunities 3. Things to be amended 4. Areas for future research. Recording the responses on paper and sharing with others was very engaging and I am looking forward to using what I learnt in further development of the briefing.
After the seminar and discussing benefits and disadvantages of lectures as teaching format with my group I read 53 interesting things to do in your lectures by Haynes, and Haynes (more about it in this blog post). It helped me to design the lecture further. It stated that telling the participants what we are going to do in the session is not sufficient for them to understand what they are supposed to learn. I have never stated the learning outcomes in the session before and the reading inspired me to start doing so.
Learning that handouts are less likely to disadvantage non-native speakers and help with additional references to useful sources, motivates me to have the PDF version of my slides to share after briefing. I will include an example of referencing on the image, as many students reported having issues with it.
PDF that was shared with students after delivering the session: