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Author Archives: Ignacia Ruiz
Case Study 1: Knowing and responding to your students’ diverse needs. (Slides in sessions)
Contextual Background: Foundation students come from diverse backgrounds, including a high number of international learners that are away from their native country for the first time and have entered the UK education system for the first time. One of the … Continue reading
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Case Study 3: Assessing learning and exchanging feedback (Feedback on Personal Project Proposal)
Contextual Background: Foundation students are currently writing a self-initiated personal project proposal (PPP) to work on for the remaining 8 weeks of the course. I just completed a session where students give feedback on the PPP of a peer through … Continue reading
Account of my own Microteaching session: A collaborative drawing tool.
Timed session plan: 20 min session / 10 min feedback Key decisions made: 1.I decided to make a collaborative drawing tool that was activated by the participants where we came together to make work as a group. This decision was … Continue reading
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Reflective Post 4:
Other Colleagues Microteaching sessions (February 7th, 2025) What a great morning. There is so much you can do in 3.5 hours with a group of people that teach across different subject areas. It was a privilege to have everyone share … Continue reading
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Initial thoughts on upcoming microteaching session: what do I want to test?
Initial thoughts: 20 minute learning activity for 6 people based around an object. Think of the desired learning aims / outcomes Reflecting on how the past year had been for me in the uncertainty of the merger of foundation – … Continue reading
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Reflective Post 3:
How do art and design technicians conceive of their role in higher education? Spark: UAL Creative teaching and Learning Journal (Sams, C 2016) Recently, one of our illustration AL’s has taken a new role in the print technical area. The … Continue reading
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Reflective Post 2:
Reading: Teaching Practices for creative Practitioners (Orr, S, & Shreeve, 2017) I read “Teaching practices for creative practitioners” (Orr, S, & Shreeve, 2017) and it made me reflect on how I structure my teaching at the Foundation course – I … Continue reading
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What does equal participation look like in the classroom? (10th Jan) Today’s session introduced me to many different things – New people and some friendly and intense discussions. One of the provocations for the day was “What does equal participation … Continue reading
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Starting this blog :)
Im Ignacia Ruiz, I teach and co-run the illustration pathway at the UAL Foundation course (formerly Central Saint Martins foundation) Im hoping that the PGCert refreshes how I’ve been approaching teaching for the past years. The foundation course just went … Continue reading
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