Author Archives: Robert Brown
Inclusive Practices: An Intervention
Making Academic Support a Destination Worth Visiting: Pedagogical Strategies for Moving Past Obstructions Introduction The intervention will use my role as an Embedded Academic Support Tutor at Central Saint Martin’s to focus strategies on improving the experience and efficacy … Continue reading
Inclusive Practices- Blog Post Three
I thought many of the resources could be effective agents of change in different ways. The one that stood out initially for improvement would be the schemes initiated by Advance HE. I think the aims are worthy, but their vague … Continue reading
Inclusive Practices- Intervention ideas
The intervention will use my role at Central Saint Martin’s as an embedded academic support online (ASO) tutor to focus strategies on improving the experience and efficacy to which contextual admissions are supported through their first year of University. In … Continue reading
Inclusive Practices- Blog Post Two
Faith Faith has raised some interesting intersections with education within a teaching position I hold at a private college in Aldgate, where I teach a group made of up of mainly female Muslim students. The collective represents a wide spectrum … Continue reading
Inclusive Practices- Blog Post One
Towards a Better Ecosystem The Paralympics demonstrates what happens when equity is embedded in systems and infrastructure, namely that ‘people are given the opportunity to shine’ (Adepitan, 2020). In other words, it is the result of how supportive we find (or … Continue reading
Record of Observation Three: Observing a peer
Session/artefact to be observed/reviewed: Technical workshop, trouser making Size of student group: 15 students Observer: Robert Brown Observee: Navin Patel Note: This record is solely for exchanging developmental feedback between colleagues. Its reflective aspect informs PgCert and Fellowship assessment, but … Continue reading
Record of Observation Two: Being observed by a peer
Session/artefact to be observed/reviewed: Design studio tutorial day Size of student group: 13 students Observer: Navinbhai Patel Observee: Robert Brown Note: This record is solely for exchanging developmental feedback between colleagues. Its reflective aspect informs PgCert and Fellowship assessment, but … Continue reading
Record of Observation One: Tutor observation
Session/artefact to be observed/reviewed: Student Presentations (Crits) Size of student group: 11 students Observer: Tim Stephens Observee: Rob Brown Note: This record is solely for exchanging developmental feedback between colleagues. Its reflective aspect informs PgCert and Fellowship assessment, but it … Continue reading
Documentation of micro-teaching
The difficulty in this session was planning for the minimum amount of steps for people to be able to create a drawing at scale in such a short time frame. To cover more of the subject, I used a ‘flipped … Continue reading
Case Study Three: Assessing learning and exchanging feedback
Contextual Background Implement strategies to allow students to understand Assessment Criteria (AC) at a deeper level and contextualise them within larger frameworks, defining what makes a good architectural project. Examining AC applications and relevance beyond the boundaries of the University. … Continue reading