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Life Design: Connecting students to their future

Teaching Matters Student Employment

Image credit: Clark Tibbs, unsplash, CC0 Dr Sharon Maguire, a Careers & Employability Manager at The University of Edinburgh , proposes the “creative, iterative, human-centered, problem-solving methodology” of Life Design as an answer to urgent questions of student employability, curriculum transformation, and the future of work.

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Welcome to the March issue of Teaching Matters!

Teaching Matters Student Employment

We also run an events listing page. Remember, you can also submit details about your event and we can advertise it on Teaching Matters. Every month Teaching Matters takes a theme and explores it through a number of blog contributions over the month. The focus for March is Peer Learning. Mar 1, 2017

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Festival of Creative Learning 2018: exploring innovative learning at the University of Edinburgh

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

The Festival of Creative Learning , now entering its second year, is a year-long series of events exploring creative learning and innovation at the University of Edinburgh. Your event may involve performing, painting, crafting, writing, dyeing, baking, playing, escaping, debating, combining these, or something else entirely.

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Teaching presentation skills and engaging students in large lectures

Teaching Matters Student Employment

Moreover, presentations are often one-off, high-stakes components of, for example, a final-year project, for which feedback, coming after the event, is useless. I redesigned the “skills” component (15%) of Honours Analysis, a 20-credit course for third-year mathematics students, to develop presentation skills.

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Helping students with their studies

Teaching Matters Academic Support

I call this an enabler event because it gets students to think about the importance of their health and wellbeing, using a range of fun recreational activities. Support services in the University also take part in this event. Any member of School staff can nominate a student and nominations can be made all year.

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Catching the waves: surfing, enhancement, and student success

Teaching Matters Student Employment

As part of this, MyDevelopmentHub was launched in 2017/18 and continues as an important online signposting tool for students interested in any aspect of their development – personal, professional, or academic – improving access to relevant activities, events, and resources.

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Meet the Syllabus: engaging in current research

Teaching Matters Student Employment

To add to the workload, we organised further events – seminars, lectures and, in one case, a book launch – around the visits. For starters, it involves a lot of admin: sending invitations, settling dates, booking hotels and cafes, and bugging guests to book their travel and send in papers on time.