Month: March 2024

Formative Assessments

To help students at the beginning of their journey on GB&I BA (Hons) during the first unit they study in their first year. Each student has an individual tutorial with a formative assessment so that they have an idea of how they are getting on. They are given a mock grade for various areas of their project and bullet point feedback with a list of what they need to do to improve their submission.

Ultimately this unit is only graded pass or fail until the students are aligned in their learning experience but it gives them a good indication of how they are getting on.

Examples of the formative Assessment feedback form

28th March

Having completed the PgCert I wanted to continue my research and develop a workshop using the prompt cards I created with students from my own course and across the Design School at LCC. I relooked at my ARP presentation and without the 10 minute time limit I added in extra slides to explain my thinking, show my research process and present some of the final set of cards.

I was asked to run a workshop using the cards with third year students working on their Final Major Projects on GB&I. I wrote and designed a slide deck to explain the background to my project, introduce them to responsible design practice and give them the deck of cards to work with.

I’ve sent both pdfs to the colleagues I interviewed for my ARP project along with Course Leaders for other undergraduate programmes including the new Climate Justice BA (Tons). I have had a lot of interest in running this workshop during the Summer term which I am thrilled about to develop and refine the resource I have created.

While studying for my PgCert I was also asked to research, write and create a series of workshops for GB&I BA (Tons) students. These included a series of Attainment sessions based on the Learning Outcomes of Enquiry, Knowledge, Process, Realisation and Communication with an aim to reduce the Attainment gap on out course. I also designed and taught Masterclasses on Brand Tone and Typography that were part of the students Final Major Project.

Included from Block 1
Knowledge – What is a Brand?
Process – Comp Shop
Communication – Ways to Communicate

Included from Block 2
Process – Type as Image
Writing Retreat
Brand Voice Masterclass
Typographic Masterclass

Block 1

Block 2