I signed up to do a short course as a teaching artist. I understand the principles of "flipping the classroom" and getting more class participation. But has anyone tried to incorporate these principles into a guest lecture or when a supply teacher? I am struggling to see how a one-off session can be 'flipped', when you don't know how much the class already knows.
Hi Karen,
Think "conversation" instead of lecture, as the guest. You wan to have a conversation. Start by asking open-ended questions about the topic at hand, then ask what the class might like to learn. The rest is up to you. What is your artistic medium? Can you set up an experiment or experience in that medium, or another medium, to illustrate important points as the class "plays" with the medium?
Thank you very much for this advice. I'm an atypical teaching artist! I'm a music librarian with a research support element to my role, but I'm also seconded as a postdoc musicology researcher. My teaching is most often providing information and bibliographic skills training to performing arts students at all levels, but only ever on a "one-off" basis and never part of a series of such classes.
Karen I like this idea "conversation" instead of lecture. Our focus is becoming more student-centric.
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