Topic > Introductory Teaching Portfolio - 907

To meet the requirements for this assessment I delivered two 3-hour workshop sessions that were part of a course on South East Asian theater hosted by a professor of drama and theater at Royal Holloway. The course was designed for a group of approx. 20 second year three-year degree students. I carried out the planning of my two sessions which was then also approved by the course leader who provided feedback on the overall concept. I was not involved in essay marking, but was asked to assist students who wanted to write their essays on the topic discussed in my sessions. Therefore, I was contacted via email by four students of the course whom I supported in finding relevant materials. I also had the opportunity to provide additional information and feedback on their work. The topics I covered in my two sessions were: Furthermore, for the last four years I have been working as a German foreign language assistant in a comprehensive school in Whitechapel, London, and I give private German lessons as a tutor for all age groups and levels (Business and General). During my research in Indonesia in 2010/11, I also worked as a German teaching assistant at Jakarta State University and taught ten single seminar units as well as one phonetics and conversation class over the course of 6 months. I organized all the teaching together with my teaching partner Mymy Phan, also a teaching assistant at UNJ at that time. I did not consider student diversity when planning my sessions and I discuss this gap in my teaching evaluation document above. I have tried, however, to employ a student-centred approach when structuring my two sessions and I hope this demonstrates the way in which students were invited to discuss and share their ideas. I critically evaluate my teaching and...... middle of paper......n an audience that had never heard of the topic before. I employed a mixture of lectures, discussions, demonstrations and experiments. My approach to teaching hasn't changed yet because I haven't taught much. I think, however, that most students need to be challenged in different ways. While there are certainly learning preferences for each individual, I think students can generally benefit from a combination of methods. For example, learning theater without ever watching a show would be very dry indeed. I have only taught two sessions at university so far (in the UK) and there has been no crucial incident that has affected my teaching. In my opinion I still have a lot to learn. I think, however, that it is challenging and exciting to be able to teach at this level and inspire (especially) young people to think and develop their own concepts.