Permission to play
My notes from this session are far more exciting and full of inspiration than I believe my words will portray….
Fascinated by the reading and the theory of PLAYgrounds and sand THERAPY and allowing myself time to contemplate… I noticed the change and the learning process was taking place in my head.
The night previously I had enjoyed the last episode of Gardens Around the World which Monty Don closed with “gardens are a play for adults to play” which popped into my mind… my garden is my place to play, experiment and learn and the learning from it informs much of my creative practise… subconsciously I started to think about my microteach and my assessed lecture and how I might be brave enough to share my personal experience.
Much discussion took place around the aims of education, the criteria that needed to be met and how it was assessed. Challenged by assessments on many levels… many blog posts are in draft about those… I focused in on the creative attributes framework and the area that interests me most the integrated attributes for employability. I am here partly due to many years employing recent UAL graduates whom I mentored in their first roles having left university, full of amazing ideas but without the skills to make them happen. I learnt that by working with them for 2-3 years sharing some key basic skills they were then able to progress and manage and deliver their own projects. These were skills I had learnt during my degree at UAL and I am beginning to understand now how those skills could easily be embedded into courses to give graduates the flying start I had.
By the early hours of the morning I had started to gamify the assessment process… which continued after my meta teaching observation experience that could only have happened at UAL!