Lunch time session
with two of our ARA institute of Canterbury excellence in teaching award
winners.
SEED set up by ARA
staff who have won internal institutional awards to Sharing Experiences of Educational
Design. Short 15 minute sessions to facilitate the sharing of good teaching.
Engineering tutor, Steve
Tomsett is the inaugural presenter and he presents his experiences on flipped
learning – dots and line in a flip class. Provided brief introduction of his
context, mainly focused on teaching engineering maths. Compared traditional
classroom approach with passive theory learning followed by application with
flipping, so passive theory is learnt before coming to class and classroom
learning revolves around active learning. Advocated using a one-one, short
recording focused on ensuring ‘added value’ occurs both before and during
class. Dots are the HOW we do it – and the line is the WHY. Ensure dots are
presented in short ‘bite sized’ bits and then in class, join the dots. Provided
an example with screencast on Adobe Connect archived on Moodle. Quizzes are
attached to each video to ensure understanding dots occurs before class.
Activities in class include authentic problems, application to real world
problem solving and extension of understanding of implications / consequences.
Jane Parker from Business
presented in ‘building confidence in learners’. Provided a perspective as a ‘new’
tutor and empathy with learners lacking in confidence based on her initial
experiences in picking up a class, ¾ through course, following 2 other tutors
who had left! Talked about challenges with teaching a complex subject – law.
Brought in student’ own experiences with ‘law’ and current topical issues as
starters for classes rather than just cover the syllabus. Co-operative learning
used as an approach to encourage communication skills and working through the
issues.
Always good to hear
from passionate teachers J
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