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Dear Sally,
Regarding your earlier post to the SEDA mailing list, you
may be interested in two publications which Ireland's National Academy
distributes. These are:
In at the Deep End- starting to teach in
Higher Education - Bettie Higgs and Jacqueline Potter
This book, adapted from an original text written by Phil
Race, is designed to support postgraduate students who are beginning to teach.
It includes sections on small group teaching, lecturing and assessment and this
second edition contains additional case studies.
In At The Deep End: Postgraduate Students'
Experiences of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education - James Cronin,
Bettie Higgs, Marian McCarthy and Jacinta McKeon
This publication is based
on the experiences of student teachers on a graduate studies module
PG60003:"Teaching and Learning for Graduate Studies" run by Ionad Bairre, the
Centre for Teaching and Learning in University College Cork, Cork
Ireland.
I’ve provided an overview of the postgraduate module
offered to students at University College Cork below. This module is run by Dr
Bettie Higgs, Teaching and Learning Centre and Department of Geology, University
College Cork, and I have cc’ed her in this email should you wish to contact her
directly to ask specific questions about this course.
Best wishes,
Catherine O'Mahony
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Catherine O’Mahony
Acting Manager
NAIRTL
Distillery House
North Mall
Cork
Ireland
t: +353 21 490 4690
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PG6003 Teaching and
Learning for Graduate Studies
Module
overview:
All
teachers remember their first year of tutoring, demonstrating or lecturing, and
those first questions that went through their minds. Do I know enough? Do I look
ok? Will the students keep turning up? This course is designed to support
postgraduate students who are beginning to teach. It will include seminars on
small group teaching, large group teaching, lecturing, and assessment. It will
take new teachers beyond those novice questions we have all asked, and encourage
them to reflect on, and improve, the learning that is taking place. It will
address questions such as how can we get students to engage in our teaching
sessions, and how can we tell if students understand what we are teaching?
It will also encourage postgraduate students to consider how their own research
and teaching and learning can complement each other.
Target
audience: Suitable
for all graduates with teaching responsibilities in all disciplinary areas and
in all Colleges
Duration:
Eight
sessions x 1.5 hours
Credit
Weighting: 5
credits
Learning Outcomes:
On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
·
Design, deliver and evaluate an event or activity to enable student
learning
· Engage with various sources of evidence and scholarship to
evaluate and improve their teaching practice
· Demonstrate critical
reflection on personal teaching practice within their disciplinary contexts
·
Devise appropriate strategies for further professional development of their
teaching practice.
Assessment: Continuous Assessment (Literature
Review and Portfolio of Teaching)