Postgraduate Teaching Coordinators’ Network Meeting
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Postgraduate Teaching Postgraduate Teaching Coordinators’ Coordinators’
Network MeetingNetwork Meeting
14th September 2010
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Agenda
• Teaching Primer course• Central Short Courses
– Courses available – New courses– Attendance
• PGR Teaching Award• Issues for coordinators/postgraduates – use of
video resource from PESL• Any other business
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Framework for PG teaching development: developed from UoN I-WHO interviews with PG teaching
coordinators and PGs who teach
Teaching primer
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Mandatory Teaching Primer?
• Under review - University policy for mandatory training for PGs who teach
• Now – Academic responsible for PG reviews their training needs when they are starting to teach
• Some schools have policies on training requirements for specific PG teaching roles
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Teaching Primer – What? Core elements
1. Induction/orientation information2. Responsibilities in a teaching role - working with
others, self-management.3. How students learn – developing and enabling in UK
HE.4. Overview of key approaches within teaching roles
– lecturing, leading seminars, demonstrating, supervision – enthusiasm and ability to relate to students.
5. Providing clarity of communication to overcome language barriers – demonstrating complex concepts
6. Marking and assessment – criteria and consistency7. Processes for reviewing teaching - sources of
support for teaching development.8. Core subject knowledge
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Teaching primer - How much?
Options:(1) Less than 10 hours of contact time over an
academic year – one day Teaching Primer course
(2) More than 10 hours of contact time with students during an academic year = 2.5-3days of Intensive Learning & Teaching Programme (pathway to Associate Fellow qualification, academic career and PGCHE)
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Teaching primerWhere? – different models
(A) Core resources delivered in your school to a cohort of new starters (embed ‘core knowledge’/subject and teaching process discussions)
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(B) University sessions with mixed groups
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Availability of resources
• Learning from experienced colleagues in the classroom and discussing their teaching work (Nottingham’s online video resources – PESL)
• ILTP resources (powerpoint materials available to download from Professional Development website
• Mapping of video resources according to teaching methods (available October 2010)
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Video resources currently available
• Video resources of teachers in your faculty discussing or demonstrating their teaching work:– 39 Arts– 25 Engineering– 49 Medical and Health Sciences– 63 Sciences– 86 Social Sciences[http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/teachtube/]
Direct video feed hyperlink in your online postgraduate handbook
Or discussion group for new starters or discussion session with ‘experienced’ PGs and new starters
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Courses available
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/csc/
Generic
• A practical look at core teaching skills• How do students learn?• How do you know you are doing a good
teaching job?• Preparing your teaching session
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Courses available
Specific
• Small group teaching• Lecturing for learning• Demonstrating in laboratory practicals• Marking and assessment (& for scientists)• Supporting students doing projects and
dissertations
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New Courses
• Supporting Example Classes?• Public speaking skills for postgraduate
teachers• Learning Technologies for Teaching
• Questions/comments?
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• 35 courses – 755 booked• 510 attended (67.5%)• 231 not attended (Range 15-1 / session)
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• 12 pgrs missed 3 or more sessions• Coordinators emailed and removed from sessions• 1 missed a further 4 sessions!
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PGR Teaching Award
• Publicised in December• Submissions in March – 1 side A4 and
reference/s – 20 applicants• 2010 winners from Department of Art History,
School of Chemistry and Division of Social Research in Medicine and Health - Awarded certificate and £100 voucher
• 6 highly commended certificate
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Answering difficult questions in seminars (interacting with undergraduates)1. What are the similarities and differences in
how teaching is organised in your school against the descriptions in the video?
2. How can we/you build confidence in your new PG ‘teachers’?
3. What does this mean for how PG ‘teachers’ learn to communicate with undergraduates in their new roles in your subject?
4. What does this mean for how PT ‘teachers’ understand their role?
5. Other issues you bring