Assessment, Learning & Teaching Reflections |
Friday 23rd December
The darkest days at the end of the year provide us with an opportunity for reflection at a time when we welcome any illumination. My Swedish grandmother celebrated St Lucy’s festival with candle light and reflections of fading solstice daylight in copper wall sconces.
Inspirational teaching lights a fire in students’ imaginations that lives with them for a lifetime and can change the way they perceive the world. A key skill of an effective teacher is to be able to reflect on assessment, learning and teaching experiences, in order to continuously improve practice. This stops us becoming duller over time and helps us to retain the spark of interest that makes our classes illuminating. As we head home for the holidays and the opportunity to take a well-deserved break from our commitments to support student learning, we do well to think back over the highlights of the past year, about the things we can be proud of and the lessons we ourselves have learned, and to look over the horizon of the coming year to what we resolve to do next to continuously improve our professional practice. Seasons greetings and a peaceful New Year to everyone.
Sally Brown
Pro-vice-chancellor
Professor of Higher Education Diversity in Learning and Teaching
