Professional Development Events
Hilary Term 2013
Registration for all the events below 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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Date:Friday 8th March 2013 Time:10:00 - 12:30 Venue: |
Interactive Lecture Design & Delivery 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: Monday 11th March 2013 Time: Venue: |
Active Learning in Large Lectures Students use lectures for many purposes: sleeping, meeting friends, etc. From time to time they learn from lectures. Yet to the extent that students merely passively sit in lectures this is quite infrequent: as ways of merely communicating information lectures are rather ineffective. This workshop considers simple, low-tech ways in which students can actively learn in lectures: how we can build small group teaching into large (>100) lectures. |
Date: Tuesday 12th March 2013 Time: Venue: |
Large Group Teaching Large group teaching creates particular challenges around student participation and engagement, especially among heterogeneous groups of Freshman students. This workshop discusses a variety of student activities to encourage interaction, foster student interest and develop independent learners including movie and news extracts, a show of hands, in-built questions, working in pairs, and reflection on a session. It demonstrates how we can make lecture topics more relevant and authentic to students thus moving away from conventional large-group lecturing styles. |
Date:Wednesday 13th March 2013 Time: Venue: |
Enhancing your Presentation Skills in an Academic Environment 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: Wednesday 8th May 2013 Time: Venue: |
Title: TBC Faciltiator: Prof. Ray Land, Durham University Further information to follow |
Date: Wednesday 15th May 2013 Time: Venue: |
Habits of Highly Productive Writers Facilitator: Associate Professor Helen Sword, The University of Auckland, New Zealand ‘Publish or perish’ is the mantra of the successful academic. Yet few academics have been explicitly trained as writers, and fewer still have been schooled in the intricate art of maintaining research productivity without sacrificing work-life balance. Helen Sword, author of Stylish Academic Writing, has interviewed more than 90 successful academics from across the disciplines to find out about their professional formation as writers, their daily work habits and their habits of mind. In this interactive workshop, she will present a smorgasbord of evidence-based strategies for colleagues who aspire to write more confidently, stylishly, engagingly, daringly or simply more prolifically. |
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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. |
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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. |
Date:Wednesday 16th January 2013 Time:12:00 - 14:00 Venue: 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, professional or pedagogical reasons. In this session you will begin to identify and articulate your teaching philosophy, and begin to draft your statement. |
Date:27th & 28th February 2013 Time:9:00 - 16:30 both days Registration Closed |
Two Day Writing Retreat (non-residential)Facilitator: Dr. Ciara O'Farrell, CAPSL A common frustration for academics is finding a block of protected time to progress their writing for publication. By participating in this writing retreat you will benefit from two full days to focus exclusively on your writing for publications output (journal article/book chapter/review etc). This non residential writing retreat will be held during reading week, in a quiet and comfortable venue that is off campus and away from the distractions of the office. The vast majority of your time will be spent in intensive, individual writing, although each session is framed by a short writing prompt to act as a springboard to your writing. There will also be a peer review exercise built into the second afternoon. As places are limited and the retreats are always over-subscribed, participants must be free to attend both days in full. Lunch is provided on both days. Places are strictly limited to 14. |
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Date:Wednesday 19th & Thursday 20th September 2012 Time:Various Venue: Registration Closed |
Introduction to Teaching at Trinity for New Academic StaffFacilitators: Dr. Ciara O'Farrell & Dr. Marian FitzmauriceIntroduction to Teaching at Trinity is a cross-discipline two day programme for academics who are new to teaching at Trinity College Dublin, or for those who wish to update their teaching skills. It will provide participants with the opportunity to meet other lecturers new to Trinity and to discuss and evaluate pedagogic approaches to teaching at third level. It will introduce participants to the approaches advocated by Trinity to curriculum design, assessment, lecture design and delivery, large group teaching, scholarship of teaching, and teaching evaluation. Attendance: The course runs over two days. We request that participants are able to attend the course in full before booking a place. CAPSL provides certificates of completion to participants to evidence their continuing professional development in teaching practice. |
Date:Monday 8th October 2012 Time:14:00 - 17:00 Venue: Registration Closed |
Small Group TeachingFacilitator: 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:5th & 6th November 2012 Time:9:00 - 16:30 both days Venue: Registration Closed |
Two Day Writing Retreat (non-residential)Facilitator: Dr. Ciara O'Farrell, CAPSL A common frustration for academics is finding a block of protected time to progress their writing for publication. By participating in this writing retreat you will benefit from two full days to focus exclusively on your writing for publications output (journal article/book chapter/review etc). This non residential writing retreat will be held during reading week, in a quiet and comfortable venue that is off campus and away from the distractions of the office. The vast majority of your time will be spent in intensive, individual writing, although each session is framed by a short writing prompt to act as a springboard to your writing. There will also be a peer review exercise built into the second afternoon. As places are limited and the retreats are always over-subscribed, participants must be free to attend both days in full. Lunch is provided on both days. Places are strictly limited to 14. |
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Enhancing your Presentation Skills in an Academic EnvironmentFacilitator: 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:Thursday 22nd November 2012 Time:10:00 - 13:00 Venue: Registration Closed |
Interactive Lecture Design & DeliveryFacilitator: Dr. Roisin Donnelly, DIT Learning and Teaching Centre 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. |
Postgraduate Diploma/Master in Education
CAPSL, in partnership with the School of Education, offers a Diploma/Masters in Higher Education. The course is intended to serve academics (including postdoctoral staff) who are new to the area of teaching and learning in higher education, as well more experienced colleagues who wish to develop and enrich their own practice.
The Postgraduate Diploma is offered over two years, with participants taking two modules in each year. Participants who have successfully completed the first two years may proceed to undertake the Masters, involving a third year devoted to the completion of a dissertation.
Full details are available on the School of Education website:
http://www.tcd.ie/Education/courses/masters/ or view the brochure.
For further information about course content and structure, please contact Dr. John Walsh or phone 1-8961221.
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