I have found Assignment II to be a very useful one as I define and build out a course that I will be teaching in the 2021-2022 school year: Filmmaking 11. In the past I have taught similar courses, in particular Digital Media Arts, where students have explored a variety of digital mediums to produce creative artifacts – photography, photo editing, film, coding, 3D modelling, etc. This assignment has been an excellent chance for me to create a more focused course by creating new materials as well as adapting some previous resources.<\/p>\n
As I’ve been constructing my syllabus and introductory modules I’ve had to reflect upon my own teaching styles and how to integrate the Google Classroom platform into my instructional practices. A goal for my course is to really encourage communication and to provide the easiest environment possible for students to share out and critique each others work. I also have had to rework my learning objectives based on feedback from the previous week which I hope will help clarify to students what expectations I have for them in the course overall and in each assignment. My syllabus is constantly being reiterated as I continually follow the design cycle, reassessing the efficacy of each iteration for the intended audience of students (and to a lesser extent parents\/guardians and administrators\/support staff)<\/p>\n
In this week’s readings I found greater relevancy from the optional readings as Anderson’s chapters on Online Learning leant more heavily onto a primarily-online structure whereas I will still be teaching this course primarily face-to-face. The primary takeaways I had from Anderson was the importance of developing a healthy and respectful discourse amongst the students whereas Taylor and Parsons also touched upon the role technology plays in student engagement.<\/p>\n
As always, a metacognitive approach to my teaching stimulates a lot of thought (sometimes too much and I get stuck in a loop) and reflection upon my teaching practices which is always important – if we never take time to reassess the efficacy of our teaching, we remain stagnant and our practice suffers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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