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Facilitated by Michael Wood and Asst/Professor Rashmi Watson, the Creative Conversations will focus around personal experiences with assessment through open space learning forum.

The process that will be used for our conversations is called “Open Space Technology”. 'Open Space' is a self- (...)

Would you like to know more about staff contemplative retreats and quiet days at UWA? If so, we invite you to an afternoon conversation on Wednesday 16th May, 3.00-4.00pm in Seminar Room 1 Love House

Retreats and Quiet Days have been offered at UWA for the last four years with (...)

The colloquium is intended to give UWA staff the opportunity to share and disseminate the important work they are doing in teaching and learning research and scholarship with their peers. This year it will feature a mix of 25 minute presentations and three minute ALTC grant winner snapshots.

Intended Audience:

This session is for all academic and sessional teaching staff at UWA, particularly those constructing teaching portfolios or teaching award submissions.

Workshop Description:

The strength of a teaching portfolio or award submission often rests (...)

Those who are, or intend to, supervise international students who want to reflect upon, develop or refresh their current conceptions and practice of supervision. Using a discussion-based approach, this workshop builds on the material about international student supervision introduced in the one-day (...)

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The workshop is aimed at those who already have a basic working knowledge of PowerPoint, but would like to learn to present more interesting and effective presentations.

Workshop Description:

Develop engaging and effective PowerPoint (...)

This programme is intended for staff teaching at UWA for whom English is a second language and who would like to enhance their oral presentation and pronunciation skills.

** Preference will be given to permanent teaching staff. **

The programme will be facilitated by a (...)

Workshop Description:

Teachers are being stretched in their efforts to maintain high quality teaching, often in a time or resource-poor environment, and with an increasingly diverse student cohort. Ideas on how to establish and maintain a good learning experience for students by (...)

Intended Audience:

The workshop is aimed at those who already have a basic working knowledge of PowerPoint, but would like to learn to present more interesting and effective presentations.

Workshop Description:

Develop engaging and effective PowerPoint (...)

English and Cultural Studies and the Westerly Centre will host a professional development day for English teachers on Friday the 22nd of June in the Calloway Auditorium.

The day will consist of the choice of three seminars focusing on the themes of "New writing/literary heritage/theo (...)

Intended Audience:

Those who are engaged in postgraduate supervision and who want to reflect upon, develop and refine their current conceptions and practice of supervision. This workshop not only provides grounding in the Graduate Research School's guidelines, policies and procedures (...)

Intended Audience:

Tutors, including postgraduate students, teaching in any subject area.

Note: Business students should contact Professor Phil Hancock for subject-specific workshops.

Workshop Description: In this workshop, you will examine a range of strategies for (...)

Intended Audience:

All staff engaged in teaching at any level of experience

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The value of peer review/observation/reflection as a powerful tool for the enhancement of teaching has long been recognised. Teaching is, by its very nature, an (...)

Intended Audience:

This workshop is for all academic and sessional teaching staff at UWA.

Workshop Description:

Effective teaching is a central aspect of an academic career at UWA. This workshop will focus on the criteria and evidence that can be included in a (...)

Assessment has always been a practice that is central to all teaching institutions. It happens, often, so instinctively that little thought goes into whether it is as good as it could be.

Questions such as the following are often not examined:

What is the difference between an (...)

Workshop Description:

Large classes mean the lecture class is maintained, yet effective teaching requires reconsidering how learners are engaged in the lecture time. ‘Active Learning’ is a principle which aims to involve students in the learning process, so that they are not simply (...)

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Lecturing staff who want to improve their teaching utilising their SPOT data and explore alternate ways to evaluate teaching in their class.

Workshop Description:

Effective teaching involves not only understanding the scholarship of research (...)

Those who are, or intend to, supervise international students who want to reflect upon, develop or refresh their current conceptions and practice of supervision. Using a discussion-based approach, this workshop builds on the material about international student supervision introduced in the one-day (...)

This session is for Academic staff who would like to encourage their students to do peer and self assessment.

Workshop Description:

Self-assessment provides a fundamental link with learning. Self-assessment is concerned with learners valuing their own learning and achievements (...)

Intended Audience:

Those who are engaged in postgraduate supervision and who want to reflect upon, develop and refine their current conceptions and practice of supervision. This workshop not only provides grounding in the Graduate Research School's guidelines, policies and procedures (...)