One observation of your teaching practice by a peer

–Jess Ball’s observations of Kayalvizhi Jayavel’s video

Note: This record is solely for exchanging developmental feedback between colleagues. Its reflective aspect informs PgCert and Fellowship assessment, but it is not an official evaluation of teaching and is not intended for other internal or legal applications such as probation or disciplinary action.

Part One
Observee to complete in brief and send to observer prior to the observation or review:

What is the context of this session/artefact within the curriculum?

The context was introducing the students about Tableau a Visualization tool through examples. And also explain important underlying concepts such as Data Model, Relationships, Joins and Unions

How long have you been working with this group and in what capacity?

These are students from M.Sc Data Science and AI. I am working with them since October as Unit leader (Tutor) and this is my second Unit “Critical Data Representation and Analysis” with them.

What are the intended or expected learning outcomes?

Expected Learning outcomes are 1. Get introduced to Tableau as a visualization tool 2. Understand Data models, Relationships, Join and Union 3. Understand how to make the necessary settings for Performance optimization 4. Inspire from the real life case studies and adopt few in to their Final assessment task

What are the anticipated outputs (anything students will make/do)?

The student would be expected to use Tableau and apply the learning on any given dataset to achieve improved performance

Are there potential difficulties or specific areas of concern?

Some of the students are not from Computer Science background, so challenges exist when introducing terms related to data models like Cardinality, Referential Integrity etc.,

How will students be informed of the observation/review?

The students knew that I am a student of PgCert and this task is part of it.

What would you particularly like feedback on?

I am welcome feedback of any kind, as I strongly believe they will drive me to improve things which may be my blind spots

How will feedback be exchanged?

We will have a meeting on Teams to get this done

Part Two
Observer to note down observations, suggestions and questions:

• Gave a good, clear plan for the day- providing useful links and resources
  • Giving an idea of what is to come and things to look forward to- guest speaker
  • Asking if it makes sense to the students- checking in with them
  • Good hand gestures- backs up what you’re saying with a visual cue.
  • Passion and enthusiasm for the subject
  • Contents of recording is very helpful- is this something you must set up manually on Panoptu

• Quite a lot of text on the slides- change to key words- some students could find this overwhelming
  • Could you actively show them Tableau instead of just screenshots sometimes? Maybe this is done later in the class?
  • Presentation could be slightly more engaging. – slides all look similar – to break up the session.

Part Three
Observee to reflect on the observer’s comments and describe how they will act on the feedback exchanged:

I really appreciate the time and efforts that has gone in this task to support me and improve further.

1. “Quite a lot of text on the slides- change to key words- some students could find this overwhelming”: I would be thoughtful on this and use it to adequacy.
2. “Could you actively show them Tableau instead of just screenshots sometimes? Maybe this is done later in the class?”: Yes, as you guessed it right, they were done as part of tutorial sessions as me showing them (active) and live demo. The idea of screen shots was to achieve three things 1. Get familiarized visually before you start trying 2. They know how their screens may look on that activity well in advance 3. Improves learning and serves as a quick reference document.
3. “Presentation could be slightly more engaging. – slides all look similar – to break up the session.” This is well noted and I will add some aesthetics to it as much as possible and appropriate

Overall, I would work on all the comments provided and they are meaningful and doable.