Effective Teaching for Higher Learning: Practical, Research-based Strategies (Three-day workshop)
- Intended audience: Continuing and fixed-term staff
- Workshop size: Minimum of 12 participants required
- Cancellation policy: The CTLC will make every effort to notify registrants of cancelled workshops at least 5 working days in advanced
- Next steps: Staff who successfully complete the three-day workshop may be eligible to enrol in the Graduate Certificate of Higher Education Curriculum, Teaching and Learning
This 15-hour short workshop (three-day workshop) provides La Trobe academic staff with practical, research-based strategies and techniques to make teaching, assessing, and giving feedback both more effective in promoting higher learning for students and more efficient and rewarding for staff.
In addition to gaining exposure to and hands-on experience using a variety of teaching options, workshop participants will review key research findings which inform effective practice. They will also have opportunities to reflect on their own practice, learn from and contribute to the learning of other staff, and identify possible applications to their teaching.
There are, of course, many ways to teach well, as research and good practice amply illustrate. To that end, this workshop employs mini-lectures, demonstrations, video clips, pair and small-group work, teaching cases, short writing tasks, and formative assessments to demonstrate a wealth of well-tested options that can be adapted to a range of disciplines and levels. Participants also receive print materials and resources for future reference and follow up.
Effective Teaching for Higher Learning is specifically designed to help participants achieve the seven learning outcomes below.
Those who actively participate and successfully complete the three days will:
- Gain hands-on practice with at least ten research-based, easily adaptable strategies and techniques for teaching, assessing, and giving feedback
- Adapt at least three strategies/techniques demonstrated to apply in their own teaching
- Illustrate at least two of the fundamental research findings presented with examples from their own learning experience and teaching practice
- Identify three or four specific University-level academic supports and resources likely to be of most use to themselves and their students
- Create a first-draft “teaching-learning-assessment” map of a subject they teach
- Meet, work with, and learn from colleagues from a range of disciplines, faculties and campuses
- Identify two or three practical, promising options for further teaching-related professional development.
| Campus | Date(s) | Time | Room | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bendigo | 28, 29, & 30 September 2009 | 9.00 am - 3.00 pm | Ironbark Centre Rm 105 | Closed |
| Bundoora | 23, 24, & 25 November 2009 | 9.00 am - 3.00 pm | IAS Seminar Room | Closed |
| Bundoora | 9, 10, & 11 December 2009 | 9.00 am - 3.00 pm | IAS Seminar Room | Register |
