Teaching Tuesdays@CSU
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Issue 20 - Enhancing Learning
In this series of bulletins, we are drawing on Subject Experience Survey questions to inspire the our weekly topics. This week’s focus comes from
Question 4: The quality of teaching in this subject helped me to learn.
Through living the value of inspiring we engage and motivate our students and communities to also proactively build innovation and capacity into their lives, careers and industries.
10 Strategies for Enhancing Learning in Introductory (Subjects)
By Dr Barbara Jacoby
Source: https://www.magnapubs.com/magna-commons/?video=3076
(See below for instructions on how to access the CSU free subscription to this resource).
QUOTE: “Teaching is leading students into a situation they can only escape by thinking”.
- attributed to University of Maryland colleague of Dr Jacoby.
With this week's focus on Question 4 of the SES in mind, the content from Dr Jacoby in this webinar addresses challenges associated with teaching compulsory introductory subjects. Most strategies are relevant across any level of a course, with a few that are specific for new students. They can be applied in online and blended classes, although the primary focus is on face-to-face learning and teaching.
Four common challenges are identified as "cases" and strategies to address each case are outlined in this 60-minute webinar.
1. The Case of the Disappearing Students
Strategy 1: Tell students what they should learn; give them early and frequent feedback
Strategy 2: Make learning useful and relevant
Strategy 3: Ask students frequently for feedback about their learning
2. The Case of Blaming the Students
Strategy 4: Managing cognitive Load by providing structures for learning
Strategy 5: Helping students learn through metacognition
3. The Case of the 1,000-yard Stare (aka, the Case of the Zombie Students)
Strategy 6: Don’t make it only about content
Strategy 7: Offer a variety of ways to learn
Strategy 8: Teach students to ask questions instead of only answering them
4. The Case of Pedagogy Overload Syndrome
Strategy 9: Don’t feel you have to embrace every new teaching strategy
Strategy 10: Use technology, but not as a panacea
The drawing out of each strategy includes useful examples and resources. The main points of Strategy 2 are an indicator of what you can expect.
Strategy 2: Make learning useful and relevant
- Let students know why we fell in love with our discipline to begin with - INSPIRE
- Use important social issues that affect students in their context
- Create a learning environment that: Is personally meaningful to students & faculty; Suggests practical applications related to students’ experience;
- Example:
- SENCER http://sencer.net/ Science Education for New Civic Engagements and Responsibilities – has a large range of resources to prompt your thinking and examples of model subjects.
- PKAL – Project Kaleidoscope - https://www.aacu.org/pkal - STEM resources.
The Supplementary Materials include mapping and rubric development templates and examples and an extensive list of references.
RECOMMENDED PUBLICATION: Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning – available through CSU Library, Volume 50 is current for 2018.
At CSU, you can get expert help with developing rubrics by submitting a SRS request, or by contacting the Assessment Leads in the Division of Learning and Teaching. For rubrics, check out the range of self-help resources on the Assessment, Moderation and Benchmarking website.
Presentation handouts, full transcripts and supplementary resources are available for download from the Magna Commons website if you don't have time to listen to the seminar.
NOTE: CSU Twitter feed this week broadcast a reminder to students that this session's SES is opening soon.
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20 minutes spent well
Monday 20 Minute Mentor ****ENDS ON AUGUST 12****
Do you have 20 minutes per week to learn new teaching tips?
You have a short window of opportunity to access this resource.
CSU has an 8-week institutional subscription to the Monday Morning Mentor Summer (USA) Edition that expires on August 12. You can listen to the presentation and download the accompanying resources up to that time.
For the unique weekly passwords
CSU staff, please contact Ellen McIntyre: elmcintyre@csu.edu.au
or, Watch for weekly announcements on YAMMER and WHAT'S NEW.
Quote from a CSU Academic on Yammer: “These are good."
Email feedback: “It was easy to listen to, non-sensational and credible. I love the fact that the short session can be ingested at any time of the day.”
Topics so far in 20-Minute Mentors:
How Can I Help Students See that Sweat-Working Hard and Smart-Is Key to Their Success?
How Do I Use Controversial Issues to Build Cognitive Skills in my Students?
How Can I Teach Routine Courses with Energy and Enthusiasm? This is about teacher presence.
How Do I Discuss Academic Integrity During the First Class?
How Can Improving Student Feedback Improve the Quality of Each Educational Encounter? This is about feedback from students and teaching responses, e.g. Subject Experience Survey.
How Do I Get Students to Come to Class Prepared?
What are the Secrets to Making Highly Effective Educational Videos?
What is Essential in a Grading Policy?
How Do I Release My Students' Natural Zest and Curiosity for Better Learning?
How Can I Use Simple Gamification Strategies to Engage my Students?
How Can I Move My Teaching Forward at Midcareer?
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Link to: Folder with all previous issues of Teaching Tuesdays
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Teaching support resources at CSU
You have access to a range of quality CSU resources to help you incorporate educational resources and techniques into your teaching. Check out the following:
- Teaching at CSU - the Division of Learning and Teaching website with links to resources for Teaching Staff, Online Learning, Assessment, Curriculum, Indigenous Curriculum, Workplace Learning, Technologies, Feedback and Analytics, and Learning Spaces.
- Resources for Learning and Teaching Academic and Professional Staff - searchable CSU database
- Learning Technologies - the starting point for a range of learning design options
- CSU Learning Exchange: Technologies in Context - a searchable database to promote online learning and teaching strategies
- The CSU wiki - a faculty-based source of learning and teaching information and strategies
Regular seminars on teaching-related topics are listed on the
CSU Professional Learning Calendar - accessed directly here
or from the Division of Learning and Teaching front page - accessed here
CSU Professional Learning Calendar:
NORFOLK Paperless Marking - an Introduction. Adobe Connect session 31 July 2018 at 1:00 pm; OR
Writing good learning outcomes. Adobe Connect session a 1 August 2018 at 1:00 pm
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Bonus CSU resource - Lynda.com
A search for 'enhancing learning' with a filter for Education and eLearning returned 116 results. Resources range from general teaching tips, to keynote lectures, to the specifics of various tools and applications for employing educational resources and techniques.
For example,
Learning to Teach Online (2h 5m).
Using TED to enhance learning (4m 14s) and Engage students in learning content with Quizlet (7m 10s) video as part of the broader topic of Teacher Tech Tips (8h 45m).
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Contemporary Approaches to University Teaching MOOC
Contemporary Approaches to University Teaching is an
open access COURSE for the Australian Higher Education Sector.
This teaching induction course provides key introductory learning and teaching concepts and strategies for those who are in their first few years of university teaching. The self-paced course is comprised of 11expert-developed modules, and several specialty modules and resources.Follow this link for more information: Contemporary Approaches to University Teaching
NOTE: Completion of this course will provide some credit and a pathway into the CSU Grad. Cert. in Learning & Teaching in Higher Education (GCLTHE). It can provide a basis for commencing preparation for Associate Fellowship (HEA).
Magna Commons
All staff with a CSU email address have free access to our annual
CSU subscription to the Magna Commons series of online seminars
Presentation handouts, full transcripts and supplementary resources are available for download if you don't have time to listen to the seminar.
How to subscribe
Staff with a CSU email address can obtain the Magna Commons CSU subscription code from Ellen McIntyre elmcintyre@csu.edu.au
Advance Higher Education Fellowship
*******ACT NOW*******
If you are interested in applying for an Advance HE Fellowship in 2018, please contact Matthew Larnach in DLT, mlarnach@csu.edu.au, before August 3rd.
Since 2015, 27 CSU staff have been awarded prestigious Advance HE Fellowships.
The Division of Learning and Teaching (DLT) will soon commence active mentoring and support of the 2018 cohort of Advance Higher Education Fellowship applications (formerly HEA Fellowship). DLT now has Access Membership that results in significantly reduced Fellowship application fees for CSU staff members wishing to receive international recognition of their Learning and Teaching achievements.
We support CSU Fellowship applications through active mentorship provided by experienced Advance HE Fellows, workshops encompassing application processes, provision of detailed feedback, and ongoing administrative support. For further details please visit our website.
Transforming Assessment Webinars
1 August 2018, will be on the topic of
Unlocking the code to digital literacy - implications for learning and assessment.
Associate Professor Jo Coldwell-Neilson (Deakin University, Australia) will present an updated understanding of digital literacy. She will discuss a framework to scaffold and contextualise digital literacy learning through the curriculum and inform assessment practices to ensure our graduates are prepared for a digitally enhanced workplace.
This work formed part of an OLT National fellowship: "Unlocking the code to digital literacy".
Information on this and future events, archived recordings of past sessions, and links to resources can be found on the website at transformingassessment.com.
Register for free at http://transformingassessment.com
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Issue 4 Academic Integrity; Issue 5 Feedback; Issue 6 Feedback;
Issue 7 Active Engagement; Issue 8 Building on Prior Learning;
Issue 9 Student Diversity; Issue 10 Learning Outcomes;
Issue 11 Deep Learning; Issue 12 The Teaching-Research Nexus;
Issue 13 Improving Student Learning; Issue 14 Planning for Effective Student Learning; Issue 15 Feedback for Teaching; Issue 16 Gamification;
Issue 17 Activities for Effective Learning; Issue 18 Dialogic Feedback;
Issue 19 Student Evaluation
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