Sessional Teaching Program: Self-Access Modules

The modules are a self-access introduction to some basic principles of learning, teaching, assessment and evaluation. They are designed to help you in the preparation of your teaching programs. They are also a resource to return to while teaching.

As a new academic staff member you may sometimes need some quick tips on handling laboratory sessions, tutorials or lectures, or for setting or marking assignments. The tips provided here are practical suggestions for some commonly experienced situations.

The modules are intended to stimulate your ideas, with a combination of your own personal experience, reflecting on how you yourself learn, what worked for you as a learner and what you observe in your students, together with the ideas and experiences of others as recorded in scholarly writings on higher education.

There are also links to more in-depth discussions of the underlying principles. These are intended to help you work out your own approaches based on the ideas and experiences of others.

Index to Modules

A set of resources for those beginning teaching in higher education. The 'Introduction' contain a number of activities plus some practical tips, while the 'Reading' provide a summary of key ideas related to the topic.

	Module 1	Learning and Teaching Goals	Introduction	Reading
	Module 2	How Students Learn	Introduction	Reading
	Module 3	Learning Environments (note: some exercises require macros to be enabled)	Introduction	Reading
	Module 4	The Learning Curriculum	Introduction	Reading
	Module 5	Student Diversity	Introduction	Reading
	Module 6	Lectures for Effective Learning	Introduction	Reading
	Module 7	Tutorials for Effective Learning	Introduction	Reading
	Module 8	Practicals for Effective Learning	Introduction	Reading
	Module 9	Fieldwork for Effective Learning	Introduction	Reading
	Module 10	Online for Effective Learning	Introduction	Reading
	Module 11	Assessment for Effective Learning	Introduction	Reading
	Module 12	Evaluation for Effective Learning	Introduction	Reading

Additional Resources

• Research Writing: Learning a writing skill and thereby avoiding plagiarism
• Active Learning Strategies
• Sessional Teaching Program: Bibliography

These items are available from the Resources for Learning and Teaching web page.

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