Teaching Alligators

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


Tag: Reading

  • ARP Data #2

    ARP PGcert DATA #2 This section of research focuses on how academic layout and language can affect Neuro diverse and unspecified learning challenged students. ADHD and Academic Performance in College Students: A Systematic Review This study gathered data from 15 studies done between 2018-2024, it’s core findings found that across the board, students with significant…

  • ARP Data #1

    ARP PGcert  Data Collecting & Research #1 How traditional and non-tailored project briefs can be distressing or confusing for ND students.  My aim is to make a simple, reusable and reliable project brief template to help reassure and settle a neurodiverse, anxious, or otherwise confused student body. I’ve started my research with data about how…

  • Reflective Report IP Unit

    Positionality  When writing my initial intervention plan I gave a brief rundown of my relation to the subject of my intervention plan and the way in which the matter was not being addressed in early education had an impact on me. I have something called ‘Dyscalculia’, which is a learning disability similar in nature to…

  • IP 2A Pre-Reading

    IP 2A Pre reading; What do these resources add to your understanding of intersectionality?  What are the implications for your teaching practice?  Compare and contrast the perspectives offered in these resources.  How many new terms can you identify from these resources?   Are there any implications from these resources for your own practice? What is the…

  • Reflections on Required Reading Part 6

    I chose to read ‘Formative Assessment and self-regulated Learning: a model and seven principles of good feedback practice’ I was especially drawn to the segment about the benefits of peer feedback, the text spoke of the recorded benefits of peer conversations about their academic studies but my lived experience was vastly different. During my primary…

  • Reflections on Required Reading Part 5

    Text: Learning outcomes and assessment criteria in art and design. What’s the recurring problem? This is a body of text I found really interesting to look through, especially as I just finished marking all of my CCP unit 7 ‘Co-Lab’ Students this morning!  Last year during another co-lab project I was running ‘The Godzilla suit…

  • Reflections on Required Reading Part 4

    I found this a very personally pertinent and interesting read as somebody who teaches a technical (or should I say Sloyd) subject like Techincal Arts (as the name implies it’s a technical skill-oriented course). I’ve always been technically minded and focused both as a teacher and as a student, as a student I longed to…

  • Reflections on Required Reading Part 3

    Reflections on ‘On the spectrum within art and design academic practice’ Now this one really spoke to me! As an autistic myself I felt immediately drawn to this text, especially the somewhat abstract accompanying graphs and visuals. The whole text reminded me of a camp joke my friends and I would make growing up, if…

  • Reflections on Required Reading Part 2

    Based on my own lived experiences of art education I was immediately drawn to this text more so than the other available options, “the design critique and the moral goods of studio pedagogy” jumped out at me.  The discussion around disciplinary differences is the most salient to me, as I’ve been taught and taught in,…

  • Reflections on Required Reading Part 1

    Immediately engaging with the text ‘An a/r/tographic métissage: Storying the self as pedagogic practice’ I found myself enjoying the invoking visuals of ‘threadscape’, imagining all the threads being woven and pulled apart to be rejoined into new colours. I’ve embroidered for many years in my fine art practice, playing with the limits of the threads…