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This workshop will provide an overview of what a rubric is and how to develop one. The practical hands-on workshop will allow staff to consider their current/future assessment tasks and effective ways of assessing these using rubrics. Staff are requested to bring a unit outline (containing (...)

Online quizzes are a popular assessment tool – both for students to check their progress, and for formal assessment. Participants are introduced to the quiz activity in the LMS, its component parts and the creation, organisation and management of quiz questions and quizzes. The Workshop is (...)

Effective learning activities involve group work, and the LMS has extensive opportunities for group activities and group management fulfilling its underpinning social constructivist theoretical base. The Moodle software manages groups through two facets: groups and groupings. In this workshop (...)

The program will provide a solid introduction to the body of research around student learning and effective teaching. For those who have some teaching experience, it will provide a firm foundation upon which to improve your teaching and develop your teaching skills. For those new to teaching, it (...)

Tutors, including postgraduate students, teaching in any subject area. Note: Business students should contact Professor Phil Hancock for subject-specific workshops. In this workshop, you will examine a range of strategies for facilitating discussion and running engaging, interactive classes.

The workshop will provide details of the signs and symptoms of, and management strategies for, these common conditions. Participants will learn a five step process for how to assist someone showing signs or symptoms. It will also cover internal and external resources available for support and more (...)

The Postgraduate Teaching Internship Scheme allows promising doctoral research students, including professional doctoral students, to develop teaching skills in their fields and to undertake a program of professional development activities during the course of their PhD candidature.

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The workshop will also help you explore the skills needed to create and deliver highly effective presentations in a practical manner. Content includes: personal presentation, dealing with nervousness, body language, voice usage, preparing, structure of speech, the use of presentation aids and (...)

UWA's learning management system provides a variety of tools, features and interactions in an online environment for supporting teaching and learning experiences at UWA. Different roles have different access and capabilities for using the system, and there are two tutor roles - a grading role and a (...)

Connecting to Unifi, using Dropbox to synchronise files between locations and managing your email and calendar with your iDevice will be demonstrated.

In this fast-paced, hands-on workshop, you’ll learn how to choose the best words to get your message across clearly and quickly, bring your writing to life with strong, punchy verbs, cut the deadwood out of your writing, write in a friendly, human style.

Done well, teaching with technology has the potential to enhance learning. This can be achieved by the ways we present information, communicate with students, create communities, provide engaging learning experiences, and provide authentic learning and assessment tasks. This workshop will introduce (...)

Group work is continually being touted as a beneficial and necessary process for student learning and yet students often complain about it both from the point of view of distribution of work and fairness of assessment. How do you ensure students actually learn all that is intended and don't merely (...)

This workshop offers an overview of an effective process for planning and managing a mentoring relationship that will suit your career needs..

Whether you are new to UWA or have been here some time, this information session demystifies some of the workings of the University and provides an overview of the University’s structure and decision-making processes. The session covers key committees, managers and other governance issues, such (...)

In this workshop participants will investigate the LMS Communication activities: Forums, Announcements, Chat, Feedback and Choice.

This session will increase your understanding of the requirements and process of applying for reclassification, the link to the Professional and General Staff Agreement, the assessment process and how standard position descriptions can be utilised for your application.

In August 2009, The University endorsed a series of principles around peer review of teaching at UWA, and a Good Practice Guide to support faculties, schools and individuals engaging in peer review of teaching. In this workshop, participants will be introduced to these resources and will examine (...)

The Induction is open to any staff member who wants to learn more about the role of Human Resources in the employee life cycle, and is particularly relevant to new staff. You will get an overview of UWA policies that apply to staff behaviour, performance expectations and shared rights and (...)

I AM BREATHING reminds us what it is to be alive - a tale of fun and laughs with a smattering of upset and devastation.

Within a year, Neil Platt goes from being a healthy 30 something British bloke, with a great sense of humour, to becoming completely paralyzed from the neck down (...)