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Workshops
Practical workshops lie at the heart of the academic development offered through C@N-DO, our professional development scheme for staff involved in teaching and/or supporting student learning. All workshops are aligned to the UK Professional Standards Framework, (UKPSF), reflecting internationally-accepted standards for teaching in Higher Education. To find out when academic practice sessions or workshops are running, please follow this link to LibCal, our portal for all staff development activity. You can search for specific sessions or workshop titles, click on a category, or browse the calendar.
In order to assist you in selecting the Workshop most appropriate to your needs, you can select a workshop by Areas of Activity or Role.
Areas of Activity:
A1 - Design and Planning of Learning Activities
A2 - Teaching and Supporting Learning
A3 - Assessment and Feedback
A4 - Learning Environment and Supporting Students
A5 - Develop your Teaching Skills
Role:
New to HE Teaching
Personal Academic Tutors
Programme Leaders
Supervisors
Enhance your use of Technology
New to Teaching
Are you New(ish) to HE Teaching?
Planning for Active Blended Learning (ABL)
I want to take a structured approach to planning to encourage student engagement in pre/post-session tasks that are meaningful and integrated with session activities to form one blended experience for students.
I’m interested in some new ideas for supporting active learning in my sessions.
Approaches to Teaching 1
I am new to teaching in HE and feel the need for some fundamental skills and ideas to use in my HE Teaching. Where do I start?
Approaches to Teaching 2
I would like some support as to how I can develop my own teaching practice.
I would like to try out some new and different teaching activities that I haven’t used before.
Getting to Grips with Marking and Grading at UoN
I’ve been asked to mark work for our courses, but I’m struggling a bit with grading the work appropriately to the level of the module.
It’s clear which is the strongest work done for this assignment, and which is the weakest, but I don’t find it easy to assign a particular grade, especially for the work ‘in the middle ground’.
Exploring Feedback
How can I ensure that my feedback is useful to enhance students’ learning?
How can I help my students to make better use of feedback and feedforward? Too often, students don’t even read it!
Personal Academic Tutor
Are you a Personal Academic Tutor?
PAT Workshop - Meeting Students' Needs as a PAT
UKPSF – A4
I want to understand what my role as a Personal Academic Tutor is under the new Learner Support process, and how the elements fit together.
I would like to share and exchange ideas for planning the focus and activities for the sessions with my PAT students across the year.
Coaching for Success
Individual meetings with students is an important element of my role as a PAT, but we never have much time. How can I make the most of the time?
How can I make sure that my response is really appropriate to student concerns and needs?
How can I quickly engage students in responding actively to issues?
Decolonising the Curriculum - What? And Why?
I’ve heard this phrase ‘decolonising the curriculum’, but what does it mean and why is it important?
I’d like to understand a bit more about the challenges our black students face in their studies and to pick up some initial ideas as to changes we could make to our modules.
PAT Connectedness for Mutual Support
Am I the only one facing this particular challenge in my PAT work? What approaches and strategies have others used to help their PAT students?
My students are struggling with the challenges that studying in this post-Covid world presents. How can I help them? What strategies have others found useful?
Where can I share my PAT experiences with others? What information and services are available that I can signpost to students?
Enhancing Graduate Employability
How can the Changemaker Hub help me to improve my student’s graduate employability?
Help! I’ve been told I need to embed employability into my programme – how can I do this?
Supporting Neurodivergent Students in HE
I have a student in my class who I know has a diagnosis of Autism. I need to understand more about what autism is (and isn’t) and any challenges which may arise for students with Autism during typical academic situations.
What strategies can be helpful when working with students with autism in a higher education setting?
Peer Observation to Enhance your Teaching - in a classroom or online
To be honest, I’ve had bad experiences of observation in the past. I hear the process is different here – how is it different? And how can I get the most benefit from the experience?
I know that discussion of learning through Peer Observation forms part of the assessment for HEA Fellowship. Can you help me prepare for this?
Programme Leader
Are you a Programme Leader?
Decolonising the Curriculum - What? And Why?
I’ve heard this phrase ‘decolonising the curriculum’, but what does it mean and why is it important?
I’d like to understand a bit more about the challenges our black students face in their studies and to pick up some initial ideas as to changes we could make to our modules.
Calling Students to Adventure
How I might make my module less about the delivery of content, and make it more of a student-centred educational journey with a narrative arc.
Supporting Neurodivergent Students in HE
I have a student in my class who I know has a diagnosis of Autism. I need to understand more about what autism is (and isn’t) and any challenges which may arise for students with Autism during typical academic situations.
What strategies can be helpful when working with students with autism in a higher education setting?
Enhancing the Engagement of your International Students
UKPSF – A2
Do you want to know why international student learn differently?
Are you looking for strategies you can use to support international students to contribute actively to class activities?
Have they cheated?
How can I recognise academic misconduct within my students’ work?
How do I evaluate signs of possible academic misconduct within student assessments?
Tell-tales of Ghost-written Assignments
There is something that just doesn’t feel right about some of the work submitted by my students – how can I tell?
• Have they cheated?
• Am I imagining it?
• What should I do?
I’ve heard about the increasing problem of students commissioning ‘ghost-written work. Are there ways I can design assessments to make such contract cheating less likely?
Supervisors
Do you supervise PhD students or Masters Dissertations?
Enhancing your practice to support dissertation students
Do you supervise dissertation students? This includes students at UG, PG or PhD level.
Are you looking for strategies you can use to enhance your supervision practice and help students make progress?
Enhance your use of Technology
Do you want to enhance your use of Technology in Learning and Teaching?
Record and edit video using tools available
Help! I need to provide a video tutorial or information video rather than just give students material to read.
My subject matter is practical with show and tell. How can I provide the demonstration of a practical process online, eg midwifery, working with leather etc?
Technology Tools you can use in your Teaching
How can I use Collaborate in my teaching? Can I use it for doing interactive activities and group work online?
Reflection and discussion are important elements of my courses. What technology tools are available to support such activities?
I have heard that tools like Padlet, blogs and online portfolios can be used to facilitate Active Blended Learning. How do I choose which to use? What are the different ways I can use them effectively as part of my teaching?