Year 4- Exploring the Role of Deep Listening

The Year 4 final evaluation is still being written. Indeed, CURL is still sifting through the data gathered – again via observations and focus groups and the like – to better understand the role of Mindfulness as well as how an activity like Deep Listening can help promote that theme. A key part of the programming was more of the activity-based programming that doubles as programming AND as an evaluation tool. Stay tuned for more information!

Key lessons for readers:

• Post-Session Reflections – even at this stage in our reflection on Year 4, a clear point of conversation for 5HE and CURL is the role of an outside evaluator in helping the TAs at 5HE to see the interactions (and resulting themes) in a new way.

• Outside evaluator (Part 2) – related to the usefulness of an outsider in post-session reflections, is the notion of finding the balance that TAs must strike in acting as the teacher AND part of the evaluation team while the session is in progress. More to the point given the topic of mindfulness, the question we are asking ourselves is this: can a TA be fully and critically present in the session if they are also trying to act as an evaluator. Stay tuned for our further reflections!