13.10.10
Hilaire Graham
Dean of Learning and Teaching
Q: What do you bring to teaching?
(various answers)
Enthusiasm
Experience
•work
•life
•enterprise
Technical skills
Knowledge
•Specific
•General
•learned
•discovered
Communication skills
•listening
Note; To give inspiration often leads to gaining inspiration
Me: A desire to encourage exploration through sharing knowledge/experience
Beginning to teach
•Feel good about beginning to teach
•Prapare for your teaching activities
•Feel confident about marking
•Give appropriate feedback
•Reflect on and develop your practice
Teaching as a profession
•What does it mean to be a professional?
Confident
•communication
•self belief
accountable
objective
Supportive re:
•students
•peers
Informed
•your knowledge/practice
•cultures
•student/peer needs
•teaching methods
Prepared
Detached
Letting others learn
being a part of a community
What is teaching?
The exchange of knowledge and experience that help students develop more conscious/focused decision making
Showing a path
Guiding exploration
Understanding the 1 way & 2 way exchange of information and when they are appropriate
Successfully creating an understanding of the subject being taught
role model
duty of care
Understanding your students needs/learnig requirements
Being successful in your objective
•Telling knowledge
Health & safety
History. Chronology
Feedback
What do we consider to be our 'code of conduct'
Dutiful
Professional
Inclusive
•of student diversity
•of peers
Current/knowledgable
Competent
Inspirational
Committed
Organised/responsible
Ethical
Team member
Supportive
Respectable/Confidental
Expertise in teaching learning and assessment
Recognition of institutional expectations
The education sector
HE is represented in government by the department of business & skills
HEFCE
•Higher Education Funding Council for England
LSC
•Learnig Skills Council
Professional body
•HEA - Higher Education Academy
Things that help you(me) learn
Self
•Visual explanations
•Repetition
•Familiar environment
•Encouragement
•Regonising when I 'get it'
•Doing
•Voicing theories
•Research - seeing how others did it - replicate - understand
•Practice
•From mistakes ie; from lack of knowledge or risk taking
•Question things
•Doodle
What can impact on your learning
•Environment - noise - light - temp - comfort - distractions
•Time - making time for learning
•Other interests - can take time from your studies but could inspire
•Home life
•Finance
•Travel
•Weather
•Physical condition - wellness
•Peers - both in a supportive role or as a distraction
•Confidence
•Contact time with tutors
•Interest
•Course structure
•Technology - including home/univercity facilities
•Pervious learning experience
•Learning style
•Age
•Personality
•Attitude
•Pervious learning experience
•Learning style
•Age
•Personality
•Attitude
