Teaching Smarter - making learning happen!

In a world-class teaching-led university, the quality of the student learning experience is paramount. There are, however, many different ways of making learning happen effectively, efficiently and enjoyably. So what is 'excellent' teaching? What do such teachers do with their students? What are the professional and personal characteristics which hallmark excellent teachers? How do such teachers keep track of how their students are learning? How do students know when they're on the receiving end of excellent teaching?

In this interactive lecture, I will propose that smarter teaching is about tuning in everything we do when we teach to five factors underpinning successful student learning. We need to:

1. Strive to enhance our students' want to learn.

2. Help our students to develop ownership of the targets represented by intended learning outcomes in our provision, and of their need to work towards these targets;

3. Keep our students learning by doing - and give them plenty of opportunity for practice, learning through mistakes, and repetition where appropriate;

4. Ensure our students get quick and useful feedback on their learning - from us, from each other, and from learning resources;

5. Help our students to make sense of what they learn - to get their heads round ideas, concepts, theories and models.

In this lecture, we will share our experience to explore how we can focus teaching on making learning happen, paving the way towards our students' success, and on how we can 'teach smarter': causing optimum learning payoff as efficiently as we can.

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