Your first task – Week 2 (24 -30 May)

Dear TAs

We hope you have had a chance to digest all the information and skills you have gained in the first two workshops. We will post a task for the first workshop, give you time to digest and work with it and then post the task for the second workshop after that. Remember, the facilitators are available to assist you with your tasks.

We know it takes time to adapt to a new way of doing things but remember, we are in this  and learning together.

Use this blog space to ask questions and to share your contributions. Your voice is very important to us. We are relying on your contributions to improve this programme, the teaching and learning at UWC and at other institutions in South Africa.

  

What is expected of you this week?

• Refer to the Workshop 1 information, particularly to the presentations made by Professor Gavin Maneveldt about the UWC teaching and learning context, including reference to the UWC Graduate attribute charter.

• Re-collect and revisit what you heard or jotted down as you listened to your coordinators’ accounts of their approach to teaching and what scholastic accounts they used to inform their teaching. You will use this information to develop principles to guide your teaching.

• Ask your coordinators about your role in the ECP programmes.

• Use the information to complete Task 1.

You are now starting to develop an account of your teaching and learning context and your role in this complex context.

The deadline for your first reflection is Wednesday 6 June 2013

  [Please make sure you have contributions before that time for facilitator comments so that you have ample time to make improvements].

Let's learn from each other!