Four-day University Teaching and Learning Course - August 2014

The University Teaching and Learning Course is a four-day program offered to all new professors and on-the-job faculty.  For the new comers, this course will prepare you on some important aspects of university teaching and learning, such as lecturing, course design, and assessment and giving feedbacks.  For the experience faculty, this course can give you new insights in your teaching and useful advice on current teaching pedagogy to enhance student learning. This course is delivered in a blended-learning format – face-to-face and online delivery.

Registration:

Please click here for registration. For more information, please contact Miss Tammy Sha at 23586803 or cttammy@ust.hk.

Room 6558 via Lift 29-30

What the sessions are about:

1 & 2.  Course Design I & II

Whether or not you are involved in building courses, it is important to learn the principles of good course design and how to apply them in order to maximize the chance that the students you teach will have a positive learning experience.

These two sessions can contribute to your ability to:

• Identify the context of your course and its design, so as to enable you to teach it successfully
• Explain the effects that course design can have on student learning
• Write learning outcomes and design a course aligned with those outcomes
• Design appropriate learning and assessment activities, including those that make use of technology
• Design opportunities for feedback to students into your course
• Evaluate your course

3 & 4.  Teaching Methods for Active Learning I & II

The aims of these two sessions are to identify good teaching practices that encourage active learning. The sessions will explain student's attention span and the benefits of using interactive activities to recover their engagement in class. Strategies to avoid overloading students with information will also be described. 

5.  Resources to Enhance Student Learning

This session aims to answer your questions about how to find, select, and successfully make use of learning resources. There is a range of resources and instructional styles that you can adapt for your teaching but making the appropriate choice, sometimes is difficult. This session will help you to identifying, wisely selecting or creating, and using resources with your students – and then evaluating their effectiveness. At the end, you will be better equipped to enable your students to learn efficiently and effectively.

6.  Making Most of Discussion

Discussion involves interaction among all members of a group. The teacher fades into the background and is no longer the center of the classroom. Instead the teacher encourages students to communicate directly with one another and monitors the discussion, providing guidance when it is needed. This session will give you the tips and strategies you need to prepare for, initiate, facilitate, evaluate, and improve discussion experiences, whatever the size and nature of the course you teach.

7.  Marking and Giving Feedback

The process of marking, grading and giving feedback is crucial: it is the most powerful lever teachers have to orient students' study efforts towards the most important things in the most appropriate ways. Students will pay most attention to what they think is being assessed – so, in this session we will look in more detail at the implications of key areas such as: setting assessment tasks; specifying outcome criteria; helping students self-review; giving feedback.

8.  Developing Your Teaching

This session focuses on your professional growth in teaching. It is based on the premise that you can stay vital in teaching by continuously reflecting on your teaching practice and, through this process, developing new teaching skills and approaches.