Introducing Teach Well - Principles to Practice
Teach Well: Principles to Practice is an exciting new Professional Development module that is FREE for UoP staff and is ideal for new starters, early career academics and staff in roles related to teaching or related to supporting student learning. This professional development module is 30 credits at level 7, and will include asynchronous preparation activities and development activities designed to support and provide context.
Participants will embark on a pedagogical journey through three pillars of practice for teaching well in higher education, and will gain confidence to critically evaluate learning and design approaches and reflect on what it means to teach well across different modes of study. On completion of the module, participants will have gained an understanding of UoP's Blended and Connected approach, underpinned by the principles of Active Blended Learning, and understand what it means to Teach Well, Consistently Well.
Participants in this module should also be able to engage confidently with Advance HE's Professional Standards Framework to work towards an appropriate level of Fellowship.
This practical module focuses on learning design, teaching practice, and assessment and feedback, in the context of a solid pedagogic framework. A significant component of the module content and associated skills is practical teaching. Participants will have an opportunity to demonstrate their ability to teach well in higher education through a micro-teaching assessment.
Module Focus
Throughout the module, participants are encouraged to apply their learning to a module focus that will serve as the central theme for our discussions and design activities ensuring that participants feel inspired and motivated to actively contribute their pedagogic perspectives and expertise in line with their current roles and responsibilities.
The module activities are designed to foster an inclusive environment that nurtures creativity and innovative thinking. Through engaging workshop activities, group discussion, and collaboration, we will collectively explore various approaches to learning design and teaching methods, that epitomises best practice in learning design and teaching practice.
The module activities will function as a collaborative platform, facilitating knowledge exchange amongst the participants integrating real-world experiences and perspectives, appropriate for diverse educational settings.
Participant Feedback
‘The Teach Well course really motivated me to reflect more on the how, what and why of my teaching, and helped me articulate this better with plenty of exploration of underlying teaching and learning theories’
‘Teach Well helped identify the areas of development required in my own knowledge personal practice which has given me the confidence and skills to support the creation and improvement of teaching and learning activities’
‘The Teach Well course joined up the dots of my prior knowledge and put theoretical concepts into context, the impact it has had on my professional practice has been tremendous. I'm now armed with the ability to ask the right questions when talking to my academic colleagues, so that together we can improve modules and courses from several different aspects’
If you are interested in finding out about Teach Well please contact Maria Hutchinson at: maria.hutchinson@port.ac.uk
