First Hours of Higher Educational teaching

This week I was asked by my former lectures at Newport to take a lecture on surviving first year documentary photography and the work which i produced during my time at Newport, initially the excitement was off the scale I was in seventh heaven until I realised i had a weekend to write a lecture that would be seen by some pretty focused students of photography spending much of the weekend prior to the lecture trying to not to remember how judgmental I had been of visiting lectures and hoping that the new first year of my old course where more forgiving then myself and my peers of the time . Anyway the day of the lecture came i arrived 4 hours early always a good sign set things up and spent the morning in the library researching for my RBL rational.  as the time came the nerves where as bad as the first time i stood in-front of the PGCE class for my micro teach as the students began to pile in to the lecture theater i realised i had never had so many people listing to me speak before and with a mixture of joy and terror started the lecture.  

Once the lecture was over it was an amazing relief but also a sense of pride as i had managed to return to a course i hold in such a high regard and provide a good lecture which students enjoyed and even managed to get a round of applause and a laugh out of some of the most serious students i have ever met. With the success of this behind me the lectures invited me back the following day to help with the final edits of the most recent project.  Once again I took the opportunity to widen my learning and my experience some new styles of teaching.