The first part of my three workshops was my very own micro
teaching brief, an adapted version of the same kind of thing that Anna taught
us all last week, for this task I had to plan my own workshop as a practice of
planning and teaching to present in just ten minutes in front of my tutors and
a group of fellow peers. I started of by having a think about what I could do
for the task, I came to the conclusion that I thought it would be a great idea
if I based it around a skill that I had learnt here in University, my specialism
now being in weave, I thought this might be a little too constructive to try
and present in just ten minutes, as time is one of the most important skills to
tackle, so I decided to go all the way back to first year where my main focus
was on embroidery and teach my small class a hand embroidery technique that I
knew the majority hadn't learnt before. I focused on a simple running stitch (small
or large stitching that follows on straight after each other, usually in a straight
line.) and finished with a much harder technique called French knots (small
knots that lie on the surface of your fabric) I found some pattern flower
printed fabric to take to the lesson for them to do there stitching on, this
allowed each of them to have a small embroidered sample to take home with them.
I also produced a plastic wallet for
each of them full of useful information; I put together a lesson plan including
the lesson objectives, aims and time scale of the lesson, with a step by step
guide so each student knew exactly what was going on. I produced work sheets
each with a step by step guide on how to thread a needle, how to tie your
threaded up needle, how to do the running stitch and how to do a French knot, I
did all of this so each student could carry on with there sample in there own time, if that is
what they wish, they could also develop there sample on even more as I gave
them a number of options with what they could do with the sample after it was
completed, including framing, scaling bigger or smaller, printing or
photocopying (bringing in different media for the sample) this really
encouraged my students to carry on, as at the end of my ten minutes I got some
really brilliant feedback from them all.
I was very pleased with how my mini workshop went, In one
word I would describe it as very ‘successful’ as I had learnt a lot of valuable
aspects from the afternoon. One of my only down sides was I struggled a little
bit with time, even though everyone was
very close to having had a go at both techniques, no one completed all the
aims, this was my own fault as I then saw I had made it a little too complicated
for the time scale that we got given, this made me realise how important time
actually is, and that a lot of thought process needs to go into how
much I can actually start and complete within a time period that I have, this applies
to many other things in life. If I was to do my micro teaching brief again, I
would only do one technique, and that would be the running stitch, my reason
for this is because it’s the easiest one to pick up for beginners and can easily
be adapted and built upon depending on the time we have, each student really
could have tackled this skill without me even thinking of moving on to learning
another one.
The picture above is a small sample of my own that I tought how to re create to my fellow peers, it includes two hand embroidery techniques, The runner stitch and french knots.
The below two pictures are the handouts that I created for my microteaching brief to give to my fellow peers are tutors, I made sure I had enough for everyone as well as spare copys just in case.
The two pictures above are two mark making slacks with acrylic paint, water based paint and emulation, this was a micro teaching brief taught by one of my friends, one of the briefs that stood out the most for me, as it was a completely new skill I had never seen before, but besides just that, I absolutely loved the outcome of the process.
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