New to teaching workshop: Strategies to enhance learning and teaching
for home and international students
31 May 2012, University of Glamorgan
This workshop is intended for staff new to teaching who have
students from a range of cultural and educational backgrounds.
Getting students engaged with the subject matter has always been a
key challenge, but the increased diversity of students can help to open up new
ways of involving them all. Participants will be asked to think about their own
expectations and to compare them with alternative views and interpretations of
commonly experienced teaching situations. Practical strategies will be
introduced to help develop teaching practices that include all students in the
learning process.
By the end of the workshop participants will be able to:
• explain how previous educational experience can impact on
student expectations;
• identify their own assumptions and preferences;
• plan for introducing new teaching strategies in their own
practice.
