Teaching Alligators

PGCert Blog for Phoebe Stringer. Teacher at Wimbledon Technical Arts and professional Fine Artist


Category: ARP Data

  • The Outcome

    This is my reusable template for making unit briefing more accessible and clear for independent learning, accommodating second language students, neurodiversity and general anxiety. The ‘Pocket guide’ template I’ve made above is the culmination of the small-scale research I’ve done in this unit. It includes: visuals, redirection to the larger Moodle page, contact information, bullet…

  • ARP Reading Data #3

    Upon reflecting on my students’ data I gathered from the questionnaire, the recurring feedback was that students wanted these features in their briefs and LO documents:  As independent reflection and study are vital to an accessible brief, I think having an additional “TLDR” (Too long didn’t read) addendum template that can be attached to the…

  • ARP My Data Collection

    For my personal data collection, I decided to create a questionnaire and hand it out to 10 students. The parameters were:  The questionnaire focused on  My main takeaways from this questionnaire are:  The Students gave mixed feedback; it seems they understand the LOs and what’s required of them most of the time, but when it…

  • ARP Reading Data #2

    Reflections and Criticality: Reflecting here, it seems the main takeaways from this reading are: ‘Cognitive Load’ is a key term in this batch of reading, again this is such a helpful term to further communications with students and staff during formative assessments; it’s especially helpful in a mindfulness sense when we talk about diverse student…

  • ARP Reading Data #1

    ARP PGcert  Reflections and Criticality: At this stage with this initial research being done these seem to be the main takeaways: I especially found the ‘Zones of Confusion’ to be a sticking point for me, it gave me insight into my own learning and how ‘positive confusion’ and ‘negative confusion’ can give tutors a wonderful…