Workshop master as a learning instructor
Group work: wellbeing
Group 1:
- equality: every student is accepted as they are, so that they all get the same amount of advice
- atmosphere
- being easy to approach
- taking breaks: importance of having lunch
(together)
- cooperation with the teacher: concrete thing to develop would be to have the
feedback visible also to the workshop master
- cooperation from planning the course to workload to goals of the course
Who is responsible for what, what are the goals?
- course feedback visible to workshop masters
- critique feedback / participating to the sessions?
- flexibility, how to make it possible
Group 3:
- students have also their own projects outside courses -> that can affect their
timetables and workload too
- during last 2 years: move from Arabia to Väre and the spaces
- the meaning of the groupwork: how could the workshop masters identify the group work
- the teacher of the course has responsibility
- being human, positive and supporting
- student overall workload with working aside
- students working from early hours until late night - lot of expectations
- good to have high level of learning, but challenges for students, Aalto level is high
-> being more involved in the teaching, understanding the context of the course work beforehand
Group 2:
- importance of feedback during process: it's important that the workshop master gives feedback that supports
student learning during the process
- guiding students about the possibility to outsource some parts of the work: one doesn't have to do everything alone
- the importance of timely communication with the responsible teacher and workshop master
- managing expectations: what are the needs of the course, what are the learning outcomes
- workshop master as partner, the importance of cooperation with the
responsible teacher
- what next? creating structures for communication before the course begins and during the course between workshop master and teacher; using
tools like Teams for a meeting; Teams chat for timely communication?