Dimensions of Practice
Quality Teaching | Meaningful Learning
Workshops by Areas of Activity
UKPSF – A1 – Design and Planning of Learning Activities
Planning for Active Blended Learning (ABL)
I’m interested in some new ideas for supporting active learning in my sessions.
Enhancing Representation in the Curricula
I would like to learn more about diversity and representation and how this can be embedded into the curricula from a module and programme perspective.
I would like to enhance my teaching practice and support learning to include greater levels of representation in my content and / or programme.
Record and edit video using tools available
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?
Content Development
What tools could I use to get students doing more than just reading powerpoints online?
Xerte e-learning and online Toolkits Workshop – Introduction for beginners
How can I use some of the content but move to a more active online delivery?
Calling Students to Adventure
UKPSF – A2 – Teaching and Supporting Learning
Approaches to Teaching 1 and 2
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?
The Study Smart Series: workshops promoting AI literacy
These workshops are suitable for teaching and professional services staff across faculties. They are suitable for anyone with an interest in the use of AI at UON.
Developing Collaborative Learning in NILE
Do you need to develop skills for developing participative online activities?
Do you need to develop skills to use tools such as discussion boards for promoting online interactive learning?
Technology Tools you can use in your Teaching
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?
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 your practice to support dissertation students
Are you looking for strategies you can use to enhance your supervision practice and help students make progress?
Enhancing the Engagement of your International Students
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?
Decolonising Yourself and your L&T
Learning and Teaching for LGBTQ+ Inclusivity
The session combines information, discussion and activities, concluding by facilitating development of practical ways to make your course, curricula, classes, and interactions with UG and PG students more inclusive.
UKPSF – A3 – Assessment and Feedback
Getting to Grips with Marking and Grading at UON
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 help my students to make better use of feedback and feedforward? Too often, students don’t even read it!
Have they cheated?
How do I evaluate signs of possible academic misconduct within student assessments?
Technology Tools to enhance your Assessment
I need to understand the different types of assessment I can set up in NILE, using the assignment tool, and how technology can help also to
record grades and provide feedback to students.
Tell-tales of Ghost-written Assignments
• 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?
UKPSF – A4 – Learning Environment and Supporting Students
PAT Workshop - Meeting Students' Needs as a PAT
I want to understand what my role as a PAT 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.
Enhancing Graduate Employability
Help! I’ve been told I need to embed employability into my programme – how can I do this?
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?
Technology as part of the Learning Environment and Student Support and Guidance
I want to add some variety to the learning environment I provide in NILE, to include some audio and visual aspects and some fun through things like quizzes.
I have heard that there are a variety of tools that can help us track student activity and engagement.
Decolonising the Curriculum - What? And Why?
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?
Working with UON Partners
I have taken on the role of department contact for a partner programme and want to make a success in the role.
Our partners seem to have so many questions, that I am finding it hard to cope! What AM I responsible for in this role? And who can help and advise me in the role?
UKPSF – A5 – Develop your Teaching Skills
Peer Observation to Enhance your Teaching - in a classroom or online
I know that discussion of learning through Peer Observation forms part of the assessment for HEA Fellowship. Can you help me prepare for this?
Introduction to the Fellowship Scheme
I want to gain professional recognition for teaching and supporting learning in higher education.
I would like to gain Fellowship of the HEA – what is the process for this at UoN?