This is an overdue reflection on our first session as part of the PgCert! I was too excited about the thoughts swimming in my head from the insider research session that I felt compelled to write about that first!
One thing that struck me about our introductory session was how meta the process of learning about teaching would be! We introduced ourselves, had a lovely chat about our immigration histories (and immigration futures) and reflections on how covid has affected us. Then Rahul sprung the question:
“What did I just do?”
I was honestly caught off guard! I thought this was purely a session just to get to know each other and a space to speak candidly! Turned out this was a very deliberate teaching choice by Rahul called compassionate pedagogy. So now I get it, what we’re supposed to do is not only learn from the information our teachers are passing onto us, but also how they disseminated it (+ all the little interactions we have too)!