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Teaching in Higher Education
This document discusses effective teaching practices in higher education, focusing on constructing meaningful learning outcomes, aligning teaching methods and assessments to learning outcomes, and designing engaging learning activities to help students actively build knowledge through experience. Key aspects covered include defining intended learning outcomes, choosing teaching activities likely to achieve the outcomes, assessing actual student learning, and arriving at final grades through constructive alignment of these elements.
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- 2. Learning outcomes - todiscuss teaching practices in different contexts - to plan for interaction and student engagement - to reflect on current practice - to develop an action plan to refine approaches used to maximise engagement and learning
- 3. Powerful ideas inteaching* http://www.flickr.com/photos/49503002139@N01/1435314340 * Gibbs, G. & Habeshaw, T., 1992. Preparing to Teach: An Introduction to Effective Teaching in Higher Education, Technical and Educational Services.
- 4. Learners construct knowledge http://www.flickr.com/photos/danisarda/3939008630/
- 5. Learners need tosee the whole picture http://www.flickr.com/photos/slightlynorth/3470300872/in/photostream/ 5
- 6. Learners are selectivelynegligent
- 7. Learners are drivenby assessment
- 8. Learners often onlymemorise 8
- 9. Learners’ attention islimited 9
- 10. http://www.flickr.com/photos/46191841@N00/3554010670 Learners’ can easily be overburdened
- 11. Adults learn differently About... Pedagogy Androgogy The Learner Dependent personality Increasingly self-reliant Role of Learners’ To be built on To be used as a experience resource for learning by self and others Readiness to learn Determined by age and Develops from life tasks stage in the course and problems (maturity) Orientation Subject Centred Task and problem- centred Motivation By external reward By internal incentives. curiosity
- 12. Learners learn well bydoing http://www.flickr.com/photos/danisarda/3939008630/
- 13. Learners learn wellwhen they take responsibility for their learning
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- 15. Preparing to teach... 3 questions
- 16. Q1 - Who? A1:Students in Higher Education
- 17. Q2 - What doyou want students to learn and achieve?
- 18. Q3 - How do you want students to learn and achieve the goals you set for them ?
- 19. 1 2 Constructive alignment 1 - students construct meaning through relevant learning activities --> creation (teaching as a catalyst for learning) 2 - what the teacher does to support learning --> facilitation (of an environment for learning)
- 20. Constructive alignment requires4 steps: 1 - Defining the intended learning outcomes (ILOs); 2 - Choosing teaching/learning activities likely to lead to the ILOs 3 - Assessing students' actual learning outcomes to see how well they match what was intended 4 - Arriving at a final grade. 20
- 21. A learning outcome... ....is a statement of what a learner is expected to know, understand and be able to do at the end of a period of learning and of how that learning is to be demonstrated. (Moon, 2002) Moon, J. (2002) The Module and Programme Development Handbook. London: Kogan Page Limited
- 22. Learning outcomes should: •be written in the future tense • identify important learning requirements • be achievable and • assessable use clear language easily understandable to students When writing outcomes, it may be useful to use the following expression At the end of this module you should be able to.......
- 23. Bloom's Taxonomy (1956) Anderson & Krathwohl's Taxonomy (2001) Evaluation Create action driven
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- 27. Let’s write some learning outcomes! http://www.celt.iastate.edu/teaching/RevisedBlooms1.html
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- 31. Active learning in laboratories?
- 32. You have iteasy! :-) Research advocates interaction! Adams, D.J., 2009. Current Trends in Laboratory Class Teaching in University Bioscience Programmes. Bioscience Education, 13(2009). Available at: http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/detail?accno=EJ858371 [Accessed October 7, 2012].
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- 34. Let’s design activities forlearning!
- 35. Things to consider: •How does the learning outcome relate to the learning activity? • How long will the activity take? • How do you communicate the activity to the students? • How will students be engaged? • How will students demonstrate their learning?
Editor's Notes
- #4 talk to the person behind you - 3 minutes - what are powerful ideas in teaching
- #5 IDA note – after talking about learning, the Are They Students or Are They Learners chart at z.umn.edu/idaportal can be quite helpful for seeing teachers and students alike need to see and interact with people in the classroom differently – shifting from students to learners.
- #7 IDA note – I like Biggs & Tang plus threshold concept folks making the point that learning is about replacing mis-information, gaps in knowledge – both seem to “normalize” that we don’t know and need to learn rather than make it a flaw of category of folks.
- #8 IDA note - There’s something in the Biggs & Tang book on this that I love and can’t find in notes on home computer, but it makes the point that our course design and syllabus need to be congruent with our spoken words – so if we say active and learning and constructivism, but grading policy shows up right after course description and if the policies are rule bound rather than process fostering, then we under cut our intentions and show students once again to be driven by assessment. Here’s the link I use to help talk about it with faculty doing syllabus re-design: www.emich.edu/facdev/docs/EMUSyllabusChecklistSep2011.doc
- #16 IDA note – I’ll work to do the update for Tapa #1 and have it on the idaportal site by the end of Tuesday. Tapa 1 is about who (I call it atmosphere), tapa 2 on what (aims from Biggs), tapas 3 & 4 on how (activities and assessments, also from Biggs)
- #18 what
- #20 The 'alignment' aspect refers to what the teacher does, which is to set up a learning environment that supports the learning activities appropriate to achieving the desired learning outcomes. The key is that the components in the teaching system, especially the teaching methods used and the assessment tasks, are aligned with the learning activities assumed in the intended outcomes. The learner is in a sense 'trapped', and finds it difficult to escape without learning what he or she is intended to learn.
- #21 we have to state our objectives in terms that require students to demonstrate their understanding, not just simply tell us about it in invigilated exams. The first step in designing the curriculum objectives, then, is to make clear what levels of understanding we want from our students in what topics, and what performances of understanding would give us this knowledge. It is helpful to think in terms of appropriate verbs. Generic high level verbs include: Reflect, hypothesise, solve unseen complex problems, generate new alternativesLow level verbs include: Describe, identify, memorise, and so on. Each discipline and topic will of course have its own appropriate verbs that reflect different levels of understanding, the topic content being the objects the verbs take.
- #23 (learning outcome) A learning outcome sets out what a learner is expected to know, understand and be able to do as the result of his/her participation in a course
- #29 Regardless of the group size the learning environment should provide an opportunity for students to obtain a deep understanding of the material. Biggs (1989) notes that in order to gain a deeper learning the following four components are important: ␣ Motivational context : intrinsic motivation, students need to see both learning goals and learning processes as relevant to them, to feel some ownership of course and subject. ␣ Learner Activity : students need to be active not passive, deep learning is associated with doing rather than passively receiving. ␣ Interaction with others : discussion with peers requires students to explain their thinking, this, in turn, can improve their thinking. ␣ A well structured knowledge base : the starting point for new learning should be existing knowledge and experience. Learning programmes should have a clearly displayed structure and should related to other knowledge and not presented in isolation.
- #30 IDA note: http://stephenbrookfield.com/Dr._Stephen_D._Brookfield/Workshop_Materials.html – the Discussion as a Way of Teaching ppt and PDF files have good info / ideas in short bursts.