Professional Development Events
Michaelmas Term 2013
The following workshops are open to all teaching staff: new lecturers, adjunct lecturers, research fellows with a lecturing role; postdocs with a lecturing role.
Date:Monday 23rd September 2013
Time:10:00 -12:00
Venue:
Room 1.03, 3-4 Foster Place
Registration closed |
Introduction to Teaching in Higher Education
Facilitator: Dr Marian Fitzmaurice
This workshop will introduce you to planning for your teaching in Trinity and give you ideas and techniques to support you to become an effective lecturer.
Key areas of focus will include:
- Models of learning
- Identifying learning outcomes and planning your teaching
- Active strategies for teaching in Higher Education
- Effective communication
- Reflecting upon ways to best support your students’ learning.
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Date:Monday 23rd September 2013
Time:13:00 -15:00
Venue:
Room 1.03, 3-4 Foster Place
Registration closed |
Module Design and Assessment
Facilitator: Dr Marian Fitzmaurice
Module design and assessment methods have a significant effect on the learning strategies adopted by students. Effective design can ensure that programmes meet identified educational needs and that teaching methods and assessment strategies are selected to achieve programme objectives. This workshop will focus on the process of deciding the structure of a module from learning outcomes stage through development of teaching-learning experiences and effective assessment.
Key areas of focus will include:
- The relationship between module planning, teaching strategies and assessment
- Assessment for learning - what kinds of knowledge, skills, abilities, values are we seeking evidence of?
- Reflection on current practice and planning for effective assessment
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Date:Wednesday 25th September 2013
Time:10:00 -12:00
Venue:
Room 1.03, 3-4 Foster Place
Registration closed |
Designing Lectures (large group teaching)
Facilitator: Dr Marian Fitzmaurice
This session will focus on approaches to large group teaching, and involving/engaging students in the learning process.
The following topics will be considered:
- identifying important features of a successful lecture
- discussing different strategies and activities which can be used to enhance the ‘traditional’ lecture
- considering ways to manage interaction in large classes
- reflecting upon ways to best support the learning of students in large classes.
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Date:Wednesday 25th September 2013
Time:13:00 -15:00
Venue:
Room 1.03, 3-4 Foster Place
Registration closed |
Supporting research-led teaching through supervision
Facilitator: Dr Marian Fitzmaurice
Research-led teaching is at the heart of TCD’s teaching philosophy, where students become part of a genuinely research-inspired curriculum. In this workshop participants will be introduced to approaches to good practice in effective supervision at both undergraduate and postgraduate level.
Key areas of focus will include:
- Strategies to support students throughout the different stages of the research process
- Supervision as a form of teaching
- What constitute a productive research environment
- Planning and managing the supervisory process
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New to Teaching Toolkit
The HEA has launched a new online New to Teaching Toolkit http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/new-to-teaching-toolkit for those starting out on, or returning to, a higher education teaching career.
The New to Teaching Toolkit contains guidance, literature and exercises in the areas of assessment, feedback, large and small group teaching, as well as developing and working with open educational resources (OER).
It draws on the experiences of new and experienced academic staff from across the disciplines and their reflections on the challenges and opportunities of teaching in higher education in the UK.
In a series of videos, colleagues consider what has worked for them in the classroom and what may work for others. The toolkit also contains information that you can work through at your own pace.
It will be updated with new resources as they become available.
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Registration for events will open two-three weeks prior to each event on this web page. You will receive a confirmation email within three days, and a further reminder email closer to the date of the event. There is a 24 hour cancellation policy for all of our events. All academic staff members can register for the workshops below at no charge.
In accordance with College's Equal Opportunity Policy, Academic Practice aim to provide accessible training for all staff and students. Please let us know if you have any specific needs so we can be as accommodating as possible.
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