teaching in higher education
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Learning outcomes
- to discuss teaching practices in different contexts
- to plan for interaction and student engagement
- to reflect on current practice - to develop an action plan to refine approaches used to maximise engagement and learning
Powerful ideas in teaching*
* Gibbs, G. & Habeshaw, T., 1992. Preparing to Teach: An Introduction to Effective Teaching in Higher Education, Technical and Educational Services.
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Learners need to see the whole picture
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Learners’ can easily be overburdened
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Adults learn differently
About... Pedagogy Androgogy
The Learner Dependent personality Increasingly self-reliant
Role of Learners’ experience
To be built on To be used as a resource for learning by
self and others
Readiness to learn
Determined by age and stage in the course
(maturity)
Develops from life tasks and problems
Orientation Subject Centred Task and problem- centred
Motivation By external reward By internal incentives. curiosity
Constructive alignment 1 2
1 - students construct meaning through relevant learning
activities --> creation (teaching as a catalyst for learning)
2 - what the teacher does to support learning
--> facilitation (of an environment for learning)
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4 - Arriving at a final grade.
Constructive alignment requires 4 steps:
1 - Defining the intended learning outcomes (ILOs);
2 - Choosing teaching/learning activities likely to lead to the ILOs
3 - Assessing students' actual learning outcomes to see how well they match what was intended
....is a statement of what a learner is
expected to know,
understand and be able to
do at the end of a period of learning and of how that learning is to be demonstrated. (Moon, 2002)
A learning outcome...
Moon, J. (2002) The Module and Programme Development Handbook. London: Kogan Page Limited
Learning outcomes should:
• be written in the future tense
• identify important learning requirements
• be achievable and
• assessable use clear language easily understandable to students
When writing outcomes, it may be useful to use the following expression
At the end of this module you should be able to.......
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Bloom's Revised Taxonomy Wheel
Adams, D.J., 2009. Current Trends in Laboratory Class Teaching in University Bioscience Programmes. Bioscience Education, 13(2009). Available at: http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/detail?accno=EJ858371 [Accessed October 7, 2012].
You have it easy! :-)
Research advocates interaction!