Workshops for Sessional Tutors, Demonstrators and Facilitators
In Semester One 2012, La Trobe University will offer a series of workshops for sessional tutors, laboratory skills demonstrators, and facilitators in work-based and enquiry-based learning programs. The common purpose of all these workshops is to help sessional staff make their teaching at La Trobe more effective, more efficient, and more personally rewarding.
The Curriculum, Teaching and Learning Centre (CTLC) works closely with staff in each Faculty and Campus to design and develop workshops that meet the needs of their tutors, demonstrators and facilitators. A series of short three-hour workshops have been developed to provide sessional staff with research-based, practical guidelines and strategies for teaching students in small group situations. Workshops are generally scheduled before or soon after the commencement of semester.
Who should attend?
Since each program/Faculty decides which tutors it will pay to attend which workshops, please check with your subject coordinator before enrolling in any workshop.
All sessional staff new to tutoring, demonstrating, facilitating at La Trobe are required to attend Effective Tutoring 1: Practical Strategies for Engaging Students and Promoting Learning. It provides research-informed fundamentals of learning and teaching to enhance student learning.
A second workshop, Effective Tutoring 2: Assessment, Feedback and Marking for Learning will be offered as a 3-hour online module in Weeks 3-5 of Semester One 2012.