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Welcome to the March issue of Teaching Matters!

Teaching Matters Student Employment

Future Teaching Matters themes include: Tutoring and demonstrating – April 2017 PhD experience – May 2017 Assessment and Feedback – June 2017 If you’d like to contribute a blog post, video, or other media on any upcoming themes or any teaching-related subject, let us know. Mar 1, 2017

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Welcome to June-July Hot Topic theme: Students as Change Agents (SACHA)

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

We’re delighted to have the opportunity to showcase some of the learnings and insights from the SACHA programme in this blog series, and look forward to your comments and suggestions about how we ensure this sort of challenge-led experiential learning continues into the new curriculum transformation across the whole University.

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Meet the Syllabus: engaging in current research

Teaching Matters Student Employment

Sabrina is working for the think tank, the German Society for International Cooperation; Joel for Full Fact, an organisation that checks claims made by politicians and the media. He now works as a researcher and writer for Full Fact – an organisation which factchecks claims made by politicians and the media.

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The ‘other side’ of the university: Employ.ed on Campus Internship

Teaching Matters Student Employment

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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Surfacing and accelerating learning: introducing the Edinburgh Award

Teaching Matters Student Employment

There are currently over 70 different versions of the Edinburgh Award recognising various student activities including part-time work experience, student involvement in the media, peer-assisted learning facilitation and charity fundraising.

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GeoScience Outreach: teaching science communication ‘beyond the programme’ and outside of the ‘Ivory Tower’

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

Students are encouraged to tap into other skills sets not traditionally taught in academic courses through workshops on topics such as science communication skills, visual design concepts and social media engagement.

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Let’s Gather: Getting staff and students together

Teaching Matters Academic Support

Branding, together with a better visual presence around the School and on social media, has brought coherence and clarity to a mixed programme of activities. Thanks to Josephine, we had bright, striking posters to promote events under the banner of ‘Let’s Gather’. Poster designed by Josephine Cahill.

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