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Curtin University of Technology
Curtin Office of Assessment, Teaching and Learning

Foundations of Learning and Teaching Program

Program dates for 2012

Foundations of Learning and Teaching programs will run continuously during both semesters in 2012. Each session, however, will be subject to sufficient numbers (if there are less than 10 participants registered, we will cancel the workshop).

 

Information for new teaching staff (especially new sessional staff)

Participation in Teaching at Curtin, Modules 1, 2 and 3, is a requirement for all new sessional staff at Curtin (who teach more than 6 hours per semester). Faculties will remunerate sessional staff once they have completed the three Teaching at Curtin modules.


Staff are encouraged to attend the Embedding English Language Development into Discipline-based Units seminar after attending module 4 of the Foundations of Learning and Teaching program. This seminar will involve discussion with a panel of discipline academics (from three Curtin faculties) and language specialists who worked together to explore strategies to assist students in developing their English language skills in the context of their units of study.

 

Online registration

Booking (and cancellation) for Semester 1, 2012 program is available through the Employee Kiosk.

 

NOTE: If 3 days before the module/s you wish to attend, you are still without a Staff Identification number, email Evelyn Gibbs at E.Gibbs@curtin.edu.au with details about the workshop/s that you wish to attend.  Otherwise, please wait until your contract is processed, then follow the enrolment instructions below:

  1. Log into Oasis
  2. Click on Employee Kiosk on the left side of the page
  3. Click on ‘Training’
  4. Click on ‘Training Registration’
  5. Click on ‘Click here to view available courses’
  6. Click on ‘13-Foundations of Learning and Teaching’
  7. Select the modules you would like to attend.

FOLT Semester 1, 2012


Modules 1, 2 & 3: Teaching at Curtin

The first three modules focus on approaches to teaching and learning, the teacher and the student, student engagement and assessment of learning and feedback on assessment. They are suitable for all teaching staff, although the focus will be on those who are new, or near new, to teaching at university.

Learning Outcomes

Module 1: Introduction to teaching at Curtin

Articulate your approach to teaching as a guide to the design of learning activities that are inclusive of the diverse student cohort and that reflect current research on student learning.

Module 2: Engaging students

Engage students in active learning and use classroom management strategies.

Module 3: Assessing student learning

Assess student learning and provide meaningful and timely feedback to students.



Modules 4, 5 & 6: Designing for student learning

Module 4 introduces curriculum design. Module 5 provides strategies for evaluation of teaching and introduces peer review and the teaching portfolio. Module 6 provides an opportunity to explore the intercultural curriculum. Modules 4, 5 and 6 are suitable for all teaching staff.

Learning Outcomes

Module 4: Assessment design

Design a unit of study that aligns learning outcomes, student learning activities and assessment strategies.

Module 5: Evaluating teaching

Develop a process for continuous improvement of teaching and learning by using various sources of feedback and evaluation.

Module 6: The intercultural curriculum

Teach in a curriculum that is responsive to intercultural, international and Australian Indigenous perspectives.



Module 7: Orientation to elearning

Orientation to eLearning, has two components. First there is a workshop where participants share ideas about e-learning, investigate e-learning activities that engage online students, trial e-learning technologies available to teaching staff at Curtin, and discover where to find assistance and professional development. In the second component, held a week after the workshop, participants join a virtual classroom (Elluminate Live) and are guided through the key features of the environment including the talk, chat, polling and whiteboard tools as well as exploring ways in which they could incorporate Elluminate Live in their teaching.

Learning Outcome

Module 7: Orientation to elearning

Articulate your understanding of e-learning technologies and identify learning tasks that can be conducted in an online environment.



Module 8: The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

Module 8 is best preceded by Modules 1 - 7. As the final module in the series, it aims to assist staff to develop their scholarship of teaching and learning and complete the peer review process introduced in Module 5.

Learning Outcome

Module 8: The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

Design a personal pathway for continuing professional development in teaching and learning.



For more information: contact: Evelyn Gibbs E.Gibbs@curtin.edu.au, Kathy Lawson Kathryn.Lawson@curtin.edu.au or Veronica Goerke V.Goerke@curtin.edu.au.

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