Date:Tuesday 13th - Thursday 15th September 2011 (2.5 days)

Time:Various

Venue:
Room 1.03, 3-4 Foster Place

Schedule (Word doc, 49KB)

Registration Closed

Introduction to Teaching at Trinity for New Academic Staff

Facilitators: Dr. Ciara O'Farrell & Dr. Anne Markey

Are you a new academic about to begin teaching for the first time?

Who is it for?
This is a foundation course created for new academics, new to teaching. The focus is very much on developing skills to offer you a confident start in your first teaching role. The course provides practical advice and approaches to practice, set within the teaching and learning context of Trinity College and Ireland.

What is involved?
Attendance- The course runs over two and half days. The course is always heavily subscribed and we request that participants are able to attend the course in full before booking a place. We provide certificates of completion to participants to evidence their continuing professional development in teaching practice.

Participation- The sessions are highly participatory with a focus on working in small groups, engaging in active learning and exploring teaching and learning through discussion with peers from diverse discipline areas. You will also have the opportunity to do some microteaching. This is optional, but most past participants identified this as a really valuable and distinctive component of the course.

Date:Tuesday 27th September

Time:10:00 - 12:30

Venue:
Room 1.03, 3-4 Foster Place

Registration Closed

Small Group Teaching

Facilitator:Dr. Anne Markey, School of English

In this interactive workshop, participants will be encouraged to consider educational arguments for supporting learning in small groups. They will also consider effective strategies for planning, delivering and managing small group sessions.

Date:Starts Wednesday 28th September

Venue:
Room 1.03, 3-4 Foster Place

Time:
10:00 - 12:00

Registration Closed

Accelerated Learning - Advanced Learning and Adaptive Problem Solving Techniques: Practical Lessons from Cognitive Science

Facilitator: Dr. David Delany, CAPSL

In this practical workshop participants will learn novel advanced deep learning and adaptive problem solving techniques derived from research in cognitive science into the development of superior mental performance. Particular attention will be paid to the application of these techniques to improving both research and teaching skills.

Derived from findings in cognitive psychology the course principles and techniques are designed to accelerate and deepen the meaningful learning, creative thinking and deep insight skills of researchers in both the sciences and the humanities. Puzzles and case studies illustrate the application of the techniques to fundamentally improving the depth and quality of our thinking in areas as diverse as neuroscience, business, law, the fine arts, genetics, philosophy, and engineering.

Dr. Delany is a neuroscientist with a research focus on novel brain training interventions for psychiatric disorders and cognitive enhancement. He also runs this course for academics and researchers in a wide range of external institutions including Cornell University, New York.

You must be able to attend all dates.

Wednesdays 28th September, 5th, 12th, 19th, 26th October, 2nd November

Date:Monday 10th October 2011

Time:10:00 - 13:00

Venue:
Room 1.03, 3-4 Foster Place

Registration Closed

Enhancing your Presentation Skills in an Academic Environment

Facilitator: Dr. Roisin Donnelly, DIT Learning and Teaching Centre

The fact that for most people, even experienced academic presenters, getting up and presenting in front of an audience can be an uneasy experience. For today’s academic, it is important to be able to communicate thoughts and ideas effectively, using a variety of tools and medium. Happily, presentation skills are something we can learn and as a result, we want to make dynamic, lively, memorable and effective presentations in our academic environments.

Whether it is presenting your research at a conference, giving Key Note speeches, making presentations to pitch ideas internally, in fact whether you are persuading, educating, or informing, this interactive workshop will provide participants with practical advice on how to improve their presentations in front of an audience. It will focus on the key stages of preparation, structure, delivery, handling question and answers and the all-important use of visual aids and current presentation technologies. Read more on Workshop Content (MS Word, 11 KB)

Date:Monday 24th October 2011

Time:10:00 - 13:00

Venue:
Room 1.03, 3-4 Foster Place

Registration Closed

Alternative Assessment Strategies

Facilitator: Prof. Alan Mortiboys

Assessment has been described as the single most important factor influencing the quality of students’ learning in higher education. If this is the case, then as a lecturer it is important for you to consider:

• Whether your assessment tasks are encouraging productive approaches to learning in your students;

• Whether you are developing your students’ intrinsic motivation by the very nature of the tasks and by ensuring that there is a variety of assessment tasks in a programme.

This session:

• offers the opportunity for you to look critically at your assessments; 

• provides information on the range of assessment tasks that can be used in modules.

Date:Monday 24th October 2011

Time:14:00 - 17:00

Venue:
Room 1.03, 3-4 Foster Place

Registration Closed

Developing Student Motivation through Active Learning

Facilitator: Prof. Alan Mortiboys

This practical session shows how a range of active learning strategies, for use in large group teaching, can have a positive effect on students’ motivation and readiness to engage with the subject, with the lecturer and with each other.

Participants will have the opportunity to:

• review how far their current practice affects their students’ motivation;
• experience and appraise a range of strategies for active learning;
• plan for how to implement suitable strategies for use in their teaching.

Date:Monday 7th November 2011

Time:12:30

Registration Closed

Methodologies and Management of Students in Research with Community

To book your place at this seminar, email roisin.mcgrogan@tcd.ie.

Date:7th & 8th November 2011 & 9th & 10th November

Time:9:00 - 16:30 both days

Venue:
The Cliff Townhouse, St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2.

Registration Closed

Two Day Writing Retreat (non-residential)

Facilitator: Dr. Ciara O'Farrell, CAPSL

A common frustration for academics is finding quiet time to write for publication.  Participating in a writing retreat can help you to benefit from dedicating a block of time to focus exclusively on your academic writing.

The aim of this retreat is to provide you with an opportunity to work on or complete a piece of academic writing that you have already developed (ie. your research and organization is complete). For this reason we ask you to identify your writing task on registration.  

The retreat will focus exclusively on writing. The majority of your time will be spent in intensive, individual writing. However, this is a task-orientated process and you will be asked to identify achievable writing outputs at the beginning of the retreat. Structured peer groups will help you to set goals and encourage progress over the two days. There will also be a peer review exercise built into the second day.

Prospective participants must be available to attend both days in full. As places are limited preference will be given to those:

• writing for publication
• who have not attended a previous writing retreat (though we will be happy to accommodate you if we have places)

Please identify your writing task on registration.  Lunch is provided on both days.

Places are strictly limited to 14.

Date:Monday 5th December 2011

Time:12:00 - 14:00

Venue:
Room 1.03, 3-4 Foster Place

Registration Closed

Writing a Teaching Philosophy Statement

Facilitator: Dr. Ciara O'Farrell, CAPSL

At some point in your academic teaching career, you will be asked to write a statement about your approach to teaching and the rationale behind what you do as an educator.   It may be for promotion purposes, or for personal, political, professional or pedagogical reasons.  

In this session we'll help you identify and articulate your teaching philosophy, provide examples of teaching philosophy statements, and spend time drafting your statement. 

Date:Friday 16th December 2011

Time:12:00 - 14:00

Venue:
Room 1.03, 3-4 Foster Place

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Writing a Teaching Philosophy Statement

Facilitator: Dr. Ciara O'Farrell, CAPSL

At some point in your academic teaching career, you will be asked to write a statement about your approach to teaching and the rationale behind what you do as an educator.   It may be for promotion purposes, or for personal, political, professional or pedagogical reasons.  

In this session we'll help you identify and articulate your teaching philosophy, provide examples of teaching philosophy statements, and spend time drafting your statement. 

CAPSL, as part of the Dublin Region Higher Education Alliance (DRHEA) would like to offer 3 places to academic staff from Trinity College Dublin on a 5 ECTS credit module: ‘Online Teaching’.

This module aims to equip those engaged in teaching in higher education with competence in teaching online, with the ability to identify opportunities to use technology to enhance their teaching and to gain enhanced educational technology skills.

On successful completion of this module the learner will be able to

• Evaluate their own teaching with a view to identifying opportunities to incorporate educational
  technologies to support student learning.
• Critique a range of educational technology tools to determine suitability for their own teaching and
  appropriate to their own competence level with technology.
• Synthesise pedagogic and technology skills and strategies to design effective learning opportunities in an online learning environment.
• Reflect on the experience of being an online learner and how this might influence their own teaching approaches.
• Produce a portfolio of tools, approaches and techniques, to enable them to incorporate increased
  utilisation of educational technology in at least one module which they teach.
• Produce a plan, with timelines, tasks, and evaluation plans for use of appropriate technologies described in their portfolio.

For more information on this module, its timings and workload, please see Workload Breakdown and Module Descriptor.

Please contact Ms. Jade Elizabeth Barrett on ext 3601 or email Jade.Barrett@tcd.ie if you have any further queries.

Registration Closed

Date:9th January 2012

Venue: Online

Registration Closed

eModerating Online Activities for Education (8 weeks online)

Facilitator:Ms. Catherine Kane, eLearning

In this workshop we will examine how to use online Discussions and Blogs in our eLearning modules paying particular attention to eModerating, students support, eAssessment and eActivities. This course will run online over 8 weeks (there is no face-to-face session). You will have to contribute to activities which will take between 20 minutes and one hour per week.

This course is very flexible and does not require you to be available at fixed times. It is an opportunity to experience eLearning as a participant while also learning how to build online activities for your own students.

This workshop is based on the research work of Dr Gilly Salmon, http://www.atimod.com/

Date:24th January 2012

Time:14:00 - 17:00

Venue: Room 1.03, 3-4 Foster Place

Registration Closed

Deterring and Detecting Student Plagiarism         

Facilitator: Dr. Sharon Flynn, NUIG

Sharon will lead a discussion around student plagiarism, why we should be concerned and what we can do to address it.

• Awareness and Concerns
• Thinking about plagiarism
• Reasons behind student plagiarism
• Internet plagiarism
• Deterring plagiarism through assessment design
• Resources – where to find them

Date:25th January 2012

Time:14:00 - 16:00

Venue: ISS Training Rooms, 200 Pearse Street

Registration Closed

Getting started with Turnitin

Facilitators:Ms. Catherine Kane, eLearning & Ms. Jade Barrett, Academic Practice

This workshop will help you;

• create a user profile
  
• add classes and assignments
  
• submit papers
  
• check the originality reports
  
• use grademark

Date:31st January 2012

Venue: Online

Registration Closed

eModerating Online Activities for Education (8 weeks online)

Facilitator:Ms. Catherine Kane, eLearning

In this workshop we will examine how to use online Discussions and Blogs in our eLearning modules paying particular attention to eModerating, students support, eAssessment and eActivities. This course will run online over 8 weeks (there is no face-to-face session). You will have to contribute to activities which will take between 20 minutes and one hour per week.

This course is very flexible and does not require you to be available at fixed times. It is an opportunity to experience eLearning as a participant while also learning how to build online activities for your own students.

This workshop is based on the research work of Dr Gilly Salmon, http://www.atimod.com/

Date:Starts 3rd February 2012

Time:9:30 - 12:30

Venue: Room 1.03, 3-4 Foster Place

Registration Closed

Writing for Academic Publication Programme (six session programme)

Facilitated by: Dr Ciara O’Farrell (CAPSL)

 “Writing for Academic Publication” * is a multi-discipline programme which offers time and space to focus on and develop your individual academic publications. It encourages academic writers of all levels of experience in publication become part of an active writing community.

The programme supports academic writers throughout the writing for publication process. It encourages participants to adopt new writing behaviours and develop writing strategies to reach publication targets.

Through focused discussion, writing activities and writing time, this programme aims to help you manage your individual writing journeys through to completion of a paper for submission for publication. Each workshop is based on a theme that reflects the writing process, but also includes specific individual writing time.

For: Academic staff members of TCD
Participants should be able to commit to the whole programme which take place on the following dates: 3rd February, 24th February, 9th March, 30th March, 20th April & 11th May.

* WfP programme adapted from Murray and MacKay, 1998; Murray, 2001; Murray and Moore, 2006
Murray, R. & Mackay, G. (1998) Supporting academic development in public output: rejections and propositions, International Journal for Academic Development, 3, pp. 54–63.
Murray, R. & Morss (2001) Studies in Higher Education Volume 26, No. 1, 2001
Murray, R and Moore, S (2006), The Handbook of Academic Writing: A Fresh Approach, Open University Press

Date:7th February 2012

Time:11:00 - 13:00

Venue: Room 1.03, 3-4 Foster Place

Registration Closed

A Lecturer Prepares: The Role of Performance in Teaching and Learning

Facilitator:Dr. Nicholas Johnson, School of Drama

Speaking in front of audiences is often a daunting part of the modern lecturer's life. Blending roundtable discussion with practical demonstration, this workshop will explore some core strategies from actor training that can benefit the academic. Beyond the technical tools of public speaking, this workshop will explore how envisioning a lecture as performance can enhance teaching and learning practice.

Date:15th February 2012 (change of date from 8th February)

Time:10:00 - 13:00

Venue: Room 1.03, 3-4 Foster Place

Registration Closed

eLearning Effective Design

Facilitator:Ms. Catherine Kane, eLearning

This workshop is designed for Academic Staff thinking of developing an eLearning project.

It is an introduction to elearning covering the following;

• What is Web Based e-Learning,
  
• What are some of the problem that might occur,
  
• How do you start planning your e-Learning project,
  
• What is meant by the term Instructional Design
  
• How can you apply this to your own projects,
  
• What delivery methods and approaches might you follow
• How and when should you evaluate your eLearning project.

Participants are asked to have an idea they want to develop in mind when they book a place as there will be time in the workshop to start planning your project.

Date:27th & 28th February 2012

Time:9:00 - 16:30 both days

Venue:
TBC

Registration Closed

Two Day Writing Retreat (non-residential)

Facilitator: Dr. Ciara O'Farrell, CAPSL

A common frustration for academics is finding quiet time to write for publication.  Participating in a writing retreat can help you to benefit from dedicating a block of time to focus exclusively on your academic writing.

The aim of this retreat is to provide you with an opportunity to work on or complete a piece of academic writing that you have already developed (ie. your research and organization is complete). For this reason we ask you to identify your writing task on registration.  

The retreat will focus exclusively on writing. The majority of your time will be spent in intensive, individual writing. However, this is a task-orientated process and you will be asked to identify achievable writing outputs at the beginning of the retreat. Structured peer groups will help you to set goals and encourage progress over the two days. There will also be a peer review exercise built into the second day.

Prospective participants must be available to attend both days in full. As places are limited preference will be given to those:

• writing for publication
• who have not attended a previous writing retreat (though we will be happy to accommodate you if we have places)

Please identify your writing task on registration.  Lunch is provided on both days.

Places are strictly limited to 14.

Date:
5th March 2012

Time:
10:00 - 13:00

Venue:
Room 1.03, 3-4 Foster Place

Registration Closed

Interactive Lecture Design & Delivery

Facilitator: Dr. Roisin Donnelly, DIT

The lecture in its many forms is still the most commonly used method of delivering instruction in higher education today. There presently are many calls to move away from the traditional lecture to interactive varieties as such an effective lecture can be one of the most exciting and rewarding aspects of an educator’s work. The time and effort invested in planning, structuring and preparing can lead to students interacting, discussing, questioning and working together.

Date:
15th March 2012

Time:
10:00 - 12:00

Venue:
Room 1.03, 3-4 Foster Place

Registration Closed

Motivation to Learn

Facilitator: Dr. Janine Stockdale, School of Nursing & Midwifery (Provost's Teaching Award Winner 2011)

A theoretical way of designing your classes so that your students are motivated to learn, developed by a Professor of Educational Psychology and Instructional Design at Florida State University. 

Date:21st March 2012

Time:13:00 - 13:50

Venue: Room 1.03, 3-4 Foster Place

Registration Closed

Large Group Teaching: Challenges and Strategies

Facilitator: Dr. Desmond Ryan, School of Law (Provost's Teaching Award Winner 2011)

In this session, we will consider the challenges facing those teaching large groups (in excess of 100 students) and explore strategies for coping with these challenges.

Issues to be addressed include group identity and co-operation; encouraging in-class participation; use of alternative assessment methods in large group contexts; provision of feedback to individual students in large group classes; the role of large group teaching in the context of other forms of teaching.

Date:
22nd May 2012

Time:
9:30 - 12:30

Venue:
Room 1.03, 3-4 Foster Place

Registration Closed

Writing for Academic Journals

Facilitator: Dr. Rowena Murray, University of Strathclyde

This workshop will cover the following topics: targeting a journal, getting started, analysing abstracts, writing an abstract, outlining, drafting, and dealing with feedback from reviewers.  There will be some writing and discussion activities, and participants are encouraged to bring laptops to use at this workshop.

Date:
22nd May 2012

Time:
14:00 - 17:00

Venue:
Room 1.03, 3-4 Foster Place

Registration Closed

Writing a Book Proposal

Facilitator: Dr. Rowena Murray, University of Strathclyde

This workshop will introduce a template for book proposals.  There will be analysis and discussion of a completed, successful proposal.
Discussion points could include: finding a publisher, writing for specific audiences, making the case for your book, and other issues raised by participants.