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Developing Professional Practice
Developing Professional Practice
- Have you ever considered in what ways the learning environment impacts learning and teaching? How does your approach to teaching impact students’ learning? Find out how to support your students through designing Positive Learning Environments.
- The environment in which learning and teaching occurs can be just as important to student learning as the actual content. Educators play a vital role in creating learning environments that encourage and facilitate learning and teaching. Find out how to support your students through designing Positive Learning Environments.
Module 7: Learning from your Teaching Practice (Asynchronous)
Description
Learning never truly ends, especially for educators. Through peer-observation and self-reflection, this asynchronous module provides a framework for lifelong professional development in higher education.
Promoting Positive Learning Environment
Promoting Positive Learning Environment
- Have you ever considered in what ways the learning environment impacts learning and teaching? How does your approach to teaching impact students’ learning? Find out how to support your students through designing Positive Learning Environments.
- The environment in which learning and teaching occurs can be just as important to student learning as the actual content. Educators play a vital role in creating learning environments that encourage and facilitate learning and teaching. Find out how to support your students through designing Positive Learning Environments.
Module 6: Inclusive Teaching Practice
Description
The concept of “the traditional learner” is constantly changing. Develop inclusive teaching practices in this module to create positive learning environments that celebrate and promote diversity.
Productive Planning and Preparation for Learning and Teaching
Productive Planning and Preparation for Learning and Teaching
- How do you design your teaching to maximise students’ learning? Which strategies and tools are best suited to your teaching approach, and your students’ learning needs? Productive Planning and Preparation equips you with skills and techniques to design effective lessons and courses.
- Just as we advise students to plan for their learning, planning for teaching is equally important. Yet, overly-complicated lesson designs are often time-consuming and impractical to implement. Productive Planning and Preparation equips you with skills and techniques to design effective lessons and courses.
Module 5: Planning your Teaching Practice
Description
At the core of effective learning and teaching lies preparation and planning. This module applies the elements of learning and teaching covered in the previous modules to devise powerful planning principles and processes.
Stay tuned – workshops coming soon!
Advancing and Assessing Student Learning
Advancing and Assessing Student Learning
- How do you know whether your learning and teaching has been effective? How do your students know? Advancing and Assessing Learning explores ways of teaching and assessing for lifelong learning.
- Assessing and evaluating student learning can be a contentious process. Determining appropriate assessments and communicating their purpose to students are challenging, but necessary, aspects of learning and teaching. Advancing and Assessing Learning explores ways of teaching and assessing for lifelong learning.
Module 4: Feedback and Marking for Learning
Description
Simultaneously one of the most challenging, and most important, components of learning and teaching, meaningful feedback enhances and reiterates learning for life. This module examines how to provide meaningful feedback, and how to assess learning fairly and consistently.
Stay tuned – workshops coming soon!
Navigating Approaches to Learning and Teaching
Navigating Approaches to Learning and Teaching
What makes a good teacher? Do certain strategies improve or hinder student learning? Navigating Approaches examines meta-cognition, or how students learn, to help you determine the best ways to approach your learning and teaching.
There are myriad ways of engaging in learning and teaching. Importantly, each approach has different outcomes for student learning. Navigating Approaches examines meta-cognition, or how students learn, to help you determine the best ways to approach your learning and teaching.
Module 2: Approaches to Learning and Teaching
Description
While “learning and teaching” are often used interchangeably, they have vastly different foundations and principles. This module examines what learning within higher education looks like, and how your sense of who you are as an educator affects that learning.
Stay tuned – Workshops coming soon!
Getting Started: Learning and Teaching at ANU
Getting Started: Learning and Teaching at ANU
- Have you ever wondered what makes learning and teaching at ANU special/different/unique? Are you keen to up-skill in ANU-specific approaches, policies, and tools? Whether you are new to ANU, or wanting to keep up-to-date with the latest changes, Getting Started will set you up for learning and teaching at ANU.
- Learning and teaching in Higher Education poses unique challenges and opportunities. Within this context, every Higher Education institution is underpinned by its own culture and policies. Whether you are new to ANU, or wanting to keep up-to-date with the latest changes, Getting Started will set you up for learning and teaching at ANU.
Module 1: Setting the Scene (Asynchronous)
Description
Every learner, educator, and institution is unique, and ANU is no exception. Find out about the primary policies, structures, and services that underpin learning and teaching at ANU, and in your specific discipline, in this asynchronous module.
Below is a list of relevant workshops provided by various units within the ANU:
Enhancing Learner Engagement
Enhancing Learner Engagement
- How do you encourage students to want to learn in the Higher Education context? What can you do to increase student interaction and engagement? Find out how to inspire your students’ learning with Enhancing Learner Engagement.
- Attracting and maintaining student interest is a constant challenge – regardless of whether you are teaching face-to-face or in a remote environment. Find out how to inspire your students’ learning with Enhancing Engagement.
Module 3: Facilitating Students’ Learning
Description
Not all learning and teaching styles are equal. This module develops your teaching to enhance learning by focusing on facilitation and learner engagement/engaging learners.
