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Spotlight on Practice Worth Sharing: Team building in Higher Education

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

Being able to share thoughts and ideas on the planning of lectures/workshops/seminars, as well as meeting to reflect on the pedagogy of these, helps to make for a cohesive team. Learning to Teach in Higher Education, Routledge. Cultures and Change in Higher Education. ProQuest Ebook Central, Trowler, P.

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IntroAP: Recognising and developing postgraduate teaching

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

One option that can address these questions and hurdles is a professional teaching accreditation with Advance HE (formerly the Higher Education Academy (HEA)). Online discussions between workshops also allow participants to crystalise their thoughts and gain peer and mentor feedback outwith the classroom. Jul 26, 2018

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How I learn is(n't) how you learn

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

This is a question that I have come back to time and time again, after a teaching and learning workshop I took part in last May. A workshop focused on those exact questions – something I hadn’t thought about at all and simply wasn’t much concerned about. We read, we write, we learn… simple, right?

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CoDI Show: Hey, you at the back!

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

For the last ten years I have been researching the ways that staff and students co-create curricula. I can’t imagine the BBC commissioning me to lead a TV series where I could showcase higher education co-created curriculum in the style of Professor Brian Cox on Astrophysics or Professor Mary Beard on Roman History.

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Service Excellence Programme: Programme and Course Information Management (PCIM)

Teaching Matters Academic Support

As a result, staff time will not be wasted updating and publishing the same information in multiple locations reducing the risk of inconsistent information being presented to students. Sarah has previously worked in student support leadership roles completing a Masters in Education (Leadership and Management).

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Professional Development and Professional Recognition for University Teachers: a mentor’s eye view

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

We’re all Fellows of the Higher Education Academy (HEA) , so we know what it’s like to take a good hard look at our own teaching and our students’ learning, to challenge ourselves to improve and to go public on our successes and disappointments and what we’ve learned from them.

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Top ten most read Teaching Matters blog posts of 2018

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

Chris provides an example of how, on one of his courses, they include a workshop on assessment literacy for the students, using the HEA Engaging with Feedback Toolkit. However, he argues just doing one workshop is not enough… 4. Here, the emphasis is placed not on the delivery but on the reception of feedback.