Reflection
Today has been the first day's delivery of the new eCPD PDA programme in the North. Four of us were present to deliver this first of two days face to face delivery.
Lilian opened the day with session one and performed remarkably well. The 50ish delegates (PDAs) remained engaged throughout and as she closed and passed over to me I spoke briefly about Frank Coffield and his LSN publication: Just suppose that teaching and learning became the first priority
I then began to deliver session two. I wasn't particularly happy with the way THAT went. I'm not a great deliverer of words and that is the essence of what I had to do. I've talked since then, to the two 'head honchos' and hopefully come up (between us we have come up) with a better flow for this session.
If we deliver session two around the headings:
What's in it for me?
What's in it for my colleagues?
What's in it for my institution
What's expected of me?
instead of the way I delivered it today – it would flow much better.
I don't think that my preparation for the session was at fault, it's just that I'm more of a demonstrator/speaker than word reader. The 'flow' didn't do anything to help – hence the discussions.
We've now prepared new sets of slides which might help future session two deliverers (I'd have preferred to wait until cohort 2) which allow the speaker/deliverer to focus the session on the PDA without having to worry about flow ...
Hey ho.
