Friday 3 May 2013

Teacher Training

I may have mentioned that I am doing a sort of teacher training course, nothing as grand as training to be a real teacher: but this will qualify me to do the Adult Education classes that I have been doing for a few years.

We all have to do a 'micro teach' - teach a twenty minute lesson on anything so the tutor and the other students can feedback on our teaching skills.

Rather bravely it turned out, I decided to teach them all how to make a fabric flower brooch, and get them all to make one.  What I forgot to factor in is that my usual students are there because they want to make something from fabric.  Last night's motley crew included a dancer, a guy who runs a Drink Driving awareness course, a business tutor, a student adviser and a chef, and none of them had any interest in sewing at all.  They were all very supportive of me, but *everything* took much longer than usual.

Luckily, when the tutor called 'time' after my 20 minutes, they all begged to be able to carry on as they were enjoying it, so I must have done something right!

We did get 9 fabric flowers made, out of a class of 10, so that wasn't bad at all, and I managed to get pics of some of them




My feedback? Overwhelmingly that my timing was way off - it was!

11 comments:

  1. Lol. Maybe they should have suggested you know your audience better. Glad they enjoyed the make though. You must be a good teacher.

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  2. Fantastic Benta! I'd be so terrified in that situation, glad it went so well!

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  3. Well done Benta on getting them to do something outside their comfort zone! Sure sign of a good teacher!

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  4. well done xx so what if the time was out ... they had fun .. and you will do better next time x

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  5. Sounds like it was fun for the students but fairly nerve-wracking for you.I am sure you will sail through the course Benta!

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  6. Hee hee, love that they wanted to finish anyway!

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  7. Not your timing, Benta! They were too slow :)

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  8. The fabric flowers look great Benta, and I am in awe that you could teach it!

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  9. Well done you!!! I'm sure you're the only one that provided them with a momento of the day!!

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  10. Well teachers often have to teach what their pupils really don't want to learn so I reckon hats off to you!

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