Presentation Skills
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- Selection of materials
- Structures
- Producing notes and hand outs
- Power point
- Working with technology
- Pace and tempo
- Interaction
- Concept checks
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5 hours |
Micro Skills
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- Presence
- Use of space and disposition
- Eye contact
- Modulation and projection
- Gesture and gesticulation
- Working with your technology
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5 hours |
Preparing for teaching in English
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- A New-to-Teaching Toolkit
- A guide to the Learning and teaching resources on the Higher Education Academy web pages
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5 hours |
Lecture techniques in English
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- Effective structuring of your lecture
- Using Critical Thinking and thinking skills in your teaching
- XXIst Century learning scenarios – how to deal with the new generation of students
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5 hours |
Teaching in small group situations
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- Cognition and learning in social contexts
- Group management strategies
- Engagement
- Reflexivity
- The power of discussion
- Dynamics and reflection
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5 hours |
Teaching in large group situations
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- Preparations
- Using Aims & Objectives to set the learning context
- Differentiation of the audience
- Interaction – old vs new technologies
- Extension activities
- Not just lectures – all large group teaching contexts.
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5 hours |
Feedback(Enhancing Learning through Formative Assessment and Feedback)
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- Is YOUR feedback fit for purpose?
- The various forms that feedback
- What students want from feedback
- What makes feedback effective
- Strategies to give quality feedback in a timely manner
- How feedback helps students take action to improve their learning
- Comments and level of detail is useful in feedback
- Comments in English for others to read. Making sure students understand feedback
- Forward-facing? Feedback
- Using feedback to build motivation and self-esteem
- Ensuring feedback reflects the assessment purpose and the grading criteria
- What makes a good feedback sheet
- Encouraging dialogue around feedback
- Using self-and-peer-feedback to develop students’ skills of self-assessment
- Technology enhanced feedback
- References
- Designing Feedback Templates with 10 UK examples
- 10 Strategies for Timely Feedback
- 10 Strategies to Engage Students with Feedback
- 10 Ideas for Enhancing Feedback with Technology
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I hour modules |
Learning & Learning Theory
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- Considering the Kolb Learning Cycle
- Introducing learning outcomes and Bloom’s taxonomy
- The reflective learner and how to create them
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3 hours |
Tutorials and supervisions in English
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- Better Feedback to students
- Candid conversations and good tutorials
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2 hours |
Assessment
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- Types of assessment and their applications
- The fundamentals of test design
- Evaluating effectiveness
- Matching curriculum to results
- Effective ipsative assessment.
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2 – 5 hours |
Planning and designing interesting learning activities
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- Ways to add dynamics and ‘sparkle’ to academic teaching
- Incorporating media
- Dynamic and interactive learning
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Using Technology
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- Finding, evaluating and integrating web resources for learning
- Integrating technology into assessment Learning from screen
- Module management
- Plagiarism and how to prevent it in technology
- Podcasting – a guide to using and creating podcasts
- Using blogs in learning and teaching
- Using images in learning and teaching
- Design tips for learning and teaching
- Using online discussion rooms
- Using video in learning and teaching
- Using wikis in learning and teaching
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1 hour modules |
Finding and using Open educational resources
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- Aims and evaluation of open sources
- XXIst Century Learning
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3 hours |
Plagiarism
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- Teaching Academic Honesty and encouraging Originality
- Designing out plagiarism from student work
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2 hours |
