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What I prefer is that they should be interactive.
When the tutorials
are too structured, they get too monotonous
and what I prefer is that
the tutorials should be quite spontaneous.
There should be a certain amount of structure like, let's say, we need to
do this, this and this blah blah blah
on a certain day but it shouldn't be too structured like, you know,
it should be structured to an extent like the lecturer ‐ sorry, a tutor should know
what he's going to teach us today
but there should be some sort of an interaction as well
and he or she should prompt some sort of interaction by asking questions
or making groups there and making sure all the students interact.
What I figured out was, if you're interacting with
the class
as well as the tutor, then you're more motivated to go to the tutorial
as well because when it's
when when it's too structured and when it's too
let's say a so when it's too structured gets boring and it gets
‐ and that's when the students start getting slack because
they reckon they're not important, they don't feel important.
It's all about making the student feel important as well
and that's what I expect
from a tutor in a respective tutorial.
Because if you discuss with friends or discuss with the tutor,
then you get more information.
Then students can help each other, like smart students can help the weak students,
and then make the class more interesting.
You wouldn't fall asleep when you talk to a pupil. I definitely prefer something a lot more
interactive and discussion based.
I personally love
engaging with the lecturer or tutor,
as well as my fellow classmates.
I think that is the best way to learn
instead of just being lectured to
and told things, to actually flesh out
particular ideas and concepts. I think that's a great thing,
and certainly helps with my own learning. I think a bit of both would be
the most important thing. I think first and foremost it needs to be structured,
so the tutor needs to come in and say okay, this is what
we've done this week, this is what you need to know. Let's go through the questions one by one.
Any questions, whatever.
But at the same time, if it's too structured,
then there's no flexibility, there's no room for students to be able to
ask a little bit more detailed questions or
ask a little bit different, to go on different branches
or whatever of that particular thing.
Structure is the most important thing,
but in saying that, you need flexibility for students to be able to raise things when they want.
Maybe in two hour tutes, you have the first hour structured
and the second hour a bit more discussion based. A bit more group work based.
When we talk about the tutorials
we should say ‐ normally the tutorial is just like you go to the class
and they've got some questions and we do the questions together and the tutor will
explain everything.
Compared with the lecture, a tutorial is not really well structured.
And I don't think it's necessary to be well structured.
Because I prefer in the tutorial ‐
like we've got discussions and the ... group activities.
Because that's a good time, we've got the small class and the one tutor.
So it's good to ‐ we've got conversation like
a one to one or one to a group.
So that's a really good chance to ask questions
and figure out some hard problems.
So it's good to leave
like 10 or 15 minutes for each tutorial
and have a discussion about some general problems.
But if you've got some really well structured tutorial,
it will be the tutor talking about everything
from the first minute to the last minute.
So this makes students feel really boring.
Yeah, especially ... the tutorials.
I think there should be a structure of bases we've got to hit,
but it should be definitely flexible enough so students who want to speak
can speak
and it should be interactive based, but although covering
a certain structure on
objectives to be fulfilled but in an interactive
situation or scenario.
Definitely not structured. Like some people might regard that as
a more organised way of teaching, and students can
get prepared for it. But the thing that ‐ I believe that if you have
a structured tutorial then students ‐
most students, like me, mostly just listen
and do whatever they're told, and they're not really thinking, their brain is not
actually functioning.
If we have a more discussion‐based of question / answer type
it's probably harder for students to just put their hands up
or speak out, but it will
allow the students to think, allow their brain to actually work.
Not just listening, but they will think, they will discuss,
thinking what went wrong, what needs to be done, why isn't this working out,
where have I gone wrong. So it's actually helping them to use the knowledge
they have learned in class
to apply them and then to use them.
So that would be more effective than just listening to people saying stuff to them.