In terms of the teaching style, NZ gave me the impression is this - care about the student feelings and their self-esteems. Of course, people's feeling is an important thing with regards to learning, and I agree encouragement too. However, from my study experience over the last 3 years, it seems the encouragement is overriding the criticism.
In first year, encouragement is the most important thing to help students to learn and explore. It might not necessarily be to critical for the student works. In second year, students have already been establishing well knowledges and research skills. Then they should be able to receive and accept relative criticism. In third year, students must have their own styles with extensive research to substantiate their study. In which the students must be tough enough to handle different kinds of response.
I'm ok with the tutors who taught me in the first and second year. But in my third year, the tutor who taught the studio seemed an "interesting" person. And Yes I'm being satirical. Every time when students showed their works and presented the ideas behind, we would all the some get the some feedback, which is "interesting"!! I'm sure my classmates will feel this sounds very familiar, and we heard "it's REALLY REALLY interesting" over and over again.
Is that REALLY interesting? Even some works are relatively low in terms of conceptual and visual qualities? What I'm trying to say is the tutor should use the word "interesting" responsively. Imagine that if the tutor's non-stop saying your work is brilliant, awesome, fantastic, fabulous, REALLY interesting, well done and so on to the students, but in fact in the end the students get a SHIT mark, what would the students think and feel? Yes, betrayed!!! The students will learn nothing from this tutor, due to the matter of dishonesty. They are not babies anymore, and should be able to accept different kinds of criticism. By giving the Fake comments and hiding the true feeling about the student work, the tutor is not only being dishonest, it also cause a badly huge influence to the students' futures because the students got told they are waring The Emperor's New Cloth. But In fact they are waring nothing...
I want to teach when I go back to Hong Kong! If I become a teacher, I would never over-encourage my students, and never overuse the word "interesting".
In first year, encouragement is the most important thing to help students to learn and explore. It might not necessarily be to critical for the student works. In second year, students have already been establishing well knowledges and research skills. Then they should be able to receive and accept relative criticism. In third year, students must have their own styles with extensive research to substantiate their study. In which the students must be tough enough to handle different kinds of response.
I'm ok with the tutors who taught me in the first and second year. But in my third year, the tutor who taught the studio seemed an "interesting" person. And Yes I'm being satirical. Every time when students showed their works and presented the ideas behind, we would all the some get the some feedback, which is "interesting"!! I'm sure my classmates will feel this sounds very familiar, and we heard "it's REALLY REALLY interesting" over and over again.
Is that REALLY interesting? Even some works are relatively low in terms of conceptual and visual qualities? What I'm trying to say is the tutor should use the word "interesting" responsively. Imagine that if the tutor's non-stop saying your work is brilliant, awesome, fantastic, fabulous, REALLY interesting, well done and so on to the students, but in fact in the end the students get a SHIT mark, what would the students think and feel? Yes, betrayed!!! The students will learn nothing from this tutor, due to the matter of dishonesty. They are not babies anymore, and should be able to accept different kinds of criticism. By giving the Fake comments and hiding the true feeling about the student work, the tutor is not only being dishonest, it also cause a badly huge influence to the students' futures because the students got told they are waring The Emperor's New Cloth. But In fact they are waring nothing...
I want to teach when I go back to Hong Kong! If I become a teacher, I would never over-encourage my students, and never overuse the word "interesting".