I spent the best part of 2015 developing my own professional practice as an educator. I gained an insight into my own teaching methods, the wider teaching community in arts education, and the desires and needs of the students. In short, I found out that teaching is an emotional transference of knowledge and confidence between learner and educator. Making is a highly specialised skill that requires little a priori thought, but it does require the act of doing, testing and at times, failing, in order to progress and develop one’s craft. This micro world of small successes and failures can be very emotional for students, and as emotion is a primary driver for reflection, it fuels the transmission between each and every decision they take. Here’s a wonky video…