Seminar reflection™ is now officially trademarked by me🙃 Whenever you use it, you’ll have to give me a like 👍
This was a new approach to seminar discussions that Dr Terrett had never introduced before, and compared to the original way of hosting a seminar, there were both many benefits and drawbacks to this new method.
The benefits were: encouraging the introverted ones to say more (as Nuolin mentioned), overall more discussion (which led to higher scores), better time management, more chances to be a leader and exercising the leaders’ ability to perform as a leader, grader and participant.
The drawbacks were: because there were different groups with different people, some people might say the same point again during different group discussions. In these small group discussions, you may be with same people multiple times and some people may miss out on certain ideas or repeat another person’s ideas without knowing it. Overall, class discussion is superior in this aspect. In addition, the group leaders may not be very experienced in using the chart that Dr Terrett uses to grade us, therefore they cannot perform the role of grader properly. And during the group discussions, Tingkai kept DISTURBING and INTERRUPTING me (with lots of backchannel responses) during my turn😡😡😡and Sarah wasted a bit of time talking about what scores she’ll give us after each turn.
These are the things that I’ve concluded, and some of these points might have been already brought up (sorry Nuolin 🫠) I think that we should try this type of seminar more in the future (new approaches are a good idea) and improve on it along the way.