Teaching and Learning Bulletin
Using reflective moments to share, evidence, and enhance our practice In a previous Teaching and Learning seminar, we explored reflection on action. This is the process of examining our teaching after the event to learn, refine, and grow. This week, we started …
Teaching and Learning Bulletin
Reflection on Action: Making Reflection a Shared Professional Practice During our Teaching and Learning seminar on Reflection on Action, colleagues explored what it means to pause, examine, and learn from our teaching experiences. Drawing on Donald Schön’s influential concept of reflection on …
Teaching and Learning Bulletin
Learning Outcomes: Linking Constructive Alignment and Employability Skills I recently led a Teaching and Learning seminar that focused on how we write, use, and reflect on learning outcomes. The session explored constructive alignment (Biggs and Tang 2011) and how our learning outcomes …
What Do We Value in a University?
This week I’ve been attending education fairs and meeting prospective students and their families. It reminded me that to maximise an outcome you first need to know what you value. Some things are easy to see: certificates, facilities, rankings — and yes, …
Teaching and Learning Bulletin
Graduate Attributes: Exploring how our students shape their futures through skills, values, and reflection In this post, I wanted to share and reflect on a recent session with our new students focused on our Graduate Attributes. The students worked in small groups …