Addressing the attainment gap for black and minority ethnic students is the topic of the latest of the Teaching Excellence Alliance’s (TEA) webinar. There is a significant, persistent, and unfair attainment gap of approximately 15% between students from black, Asian
MIMA is hosting the fourth in its series of One Fifteen talks, all of which are aligned with the University’s Research Grand Challenges. The talk, with Dr Ewan Ingleby and Dr Clive Hedges, will look at our current understandings of learning,
This March’s Learning and Teaching Journal Club will look at teaching methods in the classroom for a particularly thorny topic – pharmacology. Should we flip and lecture, or should interactive problem solving be the way forward?Matthew Van Loo is presenting the paper. If you have ever wondered why the students find pharmacology challenging to learn (or any other core topic to your subject area), then this could be the session for you…
Did you know about the new EU directives on digital accessibility? In association with Dr Abi James NADP are offering training events on Improving Digital Accessibility & the new EU Directive during March 2019. In her workshop delegates will be introduced to guidelines, techniques and regulations for improving digital accessibility…
A call for papers is now open for the 3 Rivers Regional Learning & Teaching Conference 2019. This year’s theme is ‘Embedding Student and Staff Well-Being in the Curriculum’. Contributions are welcomed on this and any other learning and teaching initiatives in higher-education. Presentations should be in the format of either a 15 minute talk or a Show a Tell, where you can demonstrate a new learning and teaching initiative over coffee to the delegates…
Teesside University is in the early stages of implementing its recently developed Personal Tutoring Code of Practice providing an institutional wide personal tutoring system and approach. The Personal Tutor is a member of academic staff assigned to an individual student as a source of pastoral, general academic and professional support and many of our academic colleagues have taken on this role. Further information around The Code of Practice…
Module evaluations are designed to inform the enhancement of learning and teaching across the University, and therefore contribute to the delivery of an outstanding student and learning experience. Through engaging staff and students in the evaluation and reporting process, module evaluations stimulate meaningful dialogue concerning pedagogic practice and the student experience…
When I began studying BSc Food Science and Engineering, I soon realised two crucial facts; I must adhere to report writing guidelines, as per module handbooks, and immerse myself in quantitative data analysis. I went to town with Anovas and p-values, repeatedly edited words to maintain my word count, and added graphs galore. Then, half way through my second year…
Over the last year Academic Registry has been reviewing the offer around Continuing Professional Development (CPD) that it provides to colleagues across the University. We have worked collaboratively and considered holistically all the CPD we provide, and subsequently developed a set of principles which underpin our offer…
Want to know more about how the Future Facing Toolkit can enhance your learning and teaching practice? Following on from the first phase of Future Facing Learning workshops the Digital Learning Team are offering Masterclasses and Coaching sessions…
