Hello all. Hope you all have been quite safe from the pm 2.5 na ka. I think I suffer from it a bit going out these days ka.
Anyway, I'm home all day to share with you what I learned from a passionate lady whose wish is to teach university students about photography. She has one solid background and direct experiences with her bachelor's and master's in this area from the US.
Since both of us met for the first time through a good friend of mine, it was an interesting learning session for both of us ka. She came with a list of questions and jotted down notes as we were discussing ka. Very serious dee loei ka.
Here are what she found from her teaching and engagement in the program:
- Admission criteria for students in the program are insufficient to prove that the applicants are qualified enough for it.
- Sections to separate students according to their performance level may not work.
- Students who have financial difficulty could be challenged by the costs of printing quality photos for class discussions and projects.
- Students never express their ideas about other peer's work.
- Students don't seem to be clear of what they wish to do for their final projects.
I admire her for looking at the big picture of the whole program, thinking of 'how' in a systematic way.
Several points about our talk ka:
- Keep voicing out. It's tough as quite a new and junior lecturer but I told her to continue raising her ideas when possible. Eventually, it'll be heard as she sure means well for the students' achievements, the program and the university.
- Hopefully she understands her students better. We discussed the nature of students when it comes to discussion.....not that they aren't interested. Rather, it could be because of their prior training and learning to avoid making mistakes, to be too passive to think and express fast, etc. She may need to use their materials as the points for discussion and encourage them to talk from earlier years of the program.
- Turn her classes into 'photography therapy' for students to look into themselves, learn about their real selves, and find their passion.
At the end of our talk, she told me she would put down, 'knowing oneself' as one of the two aims besides (photography skills) for the courses she'll teach ka.
One nice time I enjoyed yesterday ka!
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