Teaching Matters Academic Support

DECEMBER 6, 2018

This year, I attended the GCB Awards Ceremony Night 2018, and would like to share everything about it, including students’ thoughts on how studying this course has impacted their lives. The event took place in the Playfair Library, one of the most beautiful locations in Edinburgh. – Haoshen Sarah Ivory, you are amazing!

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

OCTOBER 6, 2017

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 Matters Academic Support

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

I’ll be saying a few words about the Teaching Matters mini-series at the Showcase event and announcing an exciting new mini-series podcasting initiative. Her interests include student engagement, professional learning and sociomaterial methodologies. You can book a place at the LTW Monthly Showcase here. Happy reading!

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

MAY 10, 2018

Once they got started, the students have ripped our hands off in taking this opportunity, being highly imaginative and creative – way beyond our expectations. Current areas of responsibility include: the Edinburgh Award, SLICCs (Student-Led, Individually-Created Courses), Making Transitions Personal and the Development Hub.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

DECEMBER 11, 2019

This could be in 1-1 meetings, or through some of the events we set up. We invite former alumni too, bringing together various generations of students, to share questions and experiences. For example, in term 1, we organise a social when the previous cohort comes back to graduate.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Final Event, detailing my developmental goals, as well as how they had progressed. I would thoroughly recommend doing this, as it really helped me to reflect on my development over the summer, and see how much I had improved. At the end of my internship, I gave a presentation to other interns at the Employ.ed So how did I spend my summer?

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

AUGUST 1, 2016

My role so far has involved working on the postgraduate and doctoral research course brochures, collecting data for the Beltane Public Engagement Network team on their website and social media platforms, and helping out with events. I also enjoyed helping out with the 3 Minute Thesis competition.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

JANUARY 16, 2018

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.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

We then also examined various iterations and developments through a simulation exercise to assess how the demand on these nurses changed throughout a procedure, and the skills they used to adapt to both these events in surgery as well.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JANUARY 9, 2019

The project can only be realised through close engagement with community groups, similar to the Galashiels project. A series of events will be held to orient students to the perspectives of community groups and organisations with an interest in the canal’s development.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

DECEMBER 1, 2016

The tools devised included a light-up installation, Making up your Mind , which enables young people to build personalised brain maps to be discussed at careers events, and IDK (I Don’t Know) , a mid-term creative festival of talks and workshops supported by a website, information pack and Snapchat filter.

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