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September 28, 2016
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September 28, 2016
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Outdoor Learning
Last weekend I took the opportunity to join the RSPB for a CPD on outdoor learning at Perth’s Quarry Mill. Outdoor learning plays a huge part within my teaching philosophy. Removing the boundaries of the classroom and teaching children within the context of their community and the natural world is key to creating inquiring learners. Upon arrival […] Continue reading
September 27, 2016
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Racism and Patriarchy
My Story on Racism and Sexism. When growing up, I never looked at the colour of someones skin and judged them. I never thought about why a man was with a man or a woman with a woman. I had the privilege of being brought up in a house where it doesn’t matter where you […] Continue reading
September 26, 2016
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Is there Social Imbalance?
The Exercise: To demonstrate social imbalance in a small scale, first the class was separated into 4 groups. We were spaced around the room and given a packet of supplies and instructed to plan and make a tool which may be useful for a future student of Dundee University. I was placed in group 1 […] Continue reading
September 26, 2016
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Our first values workshop: Experiencing inequality and how it effected the group
On Tuesday, we had our first of the values workshops. For this, we were split into 4 groups. I, unaware of what was to come, was put into group 4. All four groups were handed an envelope, that included items in which we had to use to make a resource for freshers coming into the university that […] Continue reading
September 26, 2016
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Values workshop- Derek should have gone to acting school.
On Tuesday 20th September we had our first values workshop with Derek. He split us into four groups and gave each group an envelope with a number indicating which group we were. Inside the envelope there was an abundance of resources for Group 1, Group 2 got a similar amount, Group 3 slightly less and Group […] Continue reading
September 26, 2016
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Values:Self,society and the professions
Last week we took part in our first workshop for this elective. I went into the room with my friends and sat with them but we were soon split in to four groups. The groups were quite large so we all told each other our names and started to chat. It was daunting just being […] Continue reading
September 25, 2016
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Values Workshop
This week we had our very first Values workshop. I didn’t really know what to expect going into it as we had never had the experience of a workshop prior to this. When I went in I surrounded myself with familiar faces and assumed that we would be allowed to sit with who we wanted […] Continue reading
September 25, 2016
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My First Values Module Workshop – My Opinions!
On Tuesday 20th September, I had my very first workshop of the Values module. I found this to be a very interesting and fun first workshop of my University career. It felt like I was going into the unknown, but everyone was in the same boat as no one knew what to expect. We first got split into […] Continue reading
September 24, 2016
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Values Workshop
On Tuesday we had our first workshop in the values module, I didn’t really know what to expect going into the workshop so when Derek handed us a brown envelope and gave us the instructions that we had to make something that would be useful to a new student at the university I just assumed […] Continue reading
September 24, 2016
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Values Workshop
Today our class had its first Values workshop. We were split into groups numbered 1 to 4 and duly followed Carrie’s instructions to make something to welcome a new student to the University of Dundee. At first I was oblivious to the purpose of this activity, however it soon became apparent that the groups had been given different […] Continue reading
September 23, 2016
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Teacher Competence and Autonomous Language-Lovin’ Learners
This year, as my elective module, I have chosen to study Modern Foreign Languages (MFL) pedagogy. As I have already mentioned in a previous blog post, I am passionate about learning languages and therefore the push of MFL in Scottish Primary Education fills me with joy and excitement. But I know this is not the […] Continue reading
September 23, 2016
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It’s not fair!
“Life is not fair”. Different people ascribe varied meanings to the statement. In return one often hears, “Deal with it”, and those who respond this way are more likely to be in a position that society deems as privileged. In our most recent workshop for the Values module we explored social inequality through a devious exercise orchestrated […] Continue reading
September 23, 2016
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Using Your Voice
After a thought-provoking lecture and an engaging workshop as an introduction to our values module, I was intrigued to find out more about how we define ourselves as individuals. I therefore took interest in the videos recommended to us by our lecturer; ones which would encourage us to think more deeply about the influence we […] Continue reading
September 23, 2016
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Workshop- Values: Self,Society and The Professions
This workshop was one of my first therefore I was apprehensive about what to expect. Not long after we had sat down we were back up again and split into groups; I was in group 3. Each group was given an envelope with materials in it and we were told to make a product for a […] Continue reading
September 23, 2016
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Values Workshop
This week I took part in my first workshop for the values module. Before the workshop I started I was keen to find out what a university workshop was like and what the lectures had in store for us. When Derek announced the task and provided us with a brown envolope I had lots of […] Continue reading
September 22, 2016
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Values Module Workshop
On Tuesday, we had our very first values module workshop. We all went into this not know what we would be expected to do or what it would consist of. We started off by being organised into groups, this was done by a typical methods used in the classroom of having everyone line up in […] Continue reading
September 21, 2016
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Values Module Workshop
I was in the first workshop for the “Values” Module yesterday. I was bold and started seating at an empty table, trying to start my own empire! I thought the workshop was a great way to get across the points of fairness and exclusion. The workshop brought to light that; in group work, all groups […] Continue reading
September 21, 2016
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My Teaching Philosophy (‘Why Teaching’ Revisited.)
As one of our first Tdts in MA1 we were asked to write about why we chose teaching as our profession. I did not take the straight forward route to university like so many of my fellow education students did. I did not know from day dot that I wanted to be a teacher in […] Continue reading
September 20, 2016
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The three levels of bias
Values: Self, Society and the Professions. My lecture today was about how we view ourselves and about our conscious and unconscious self. During the lecture, I learned about the 3 levels of bias: Conscious and open bias Conscious and hidden bias Unconscious bias When listening at first, I believed that I couldn’t have an unconscious […] Continue reading
