Saul Becker on Learning to learn at university
May 20, 2011
Video >> Saul Becker: “I teach the first four lectures that our first year students have on a particular module, called Social Problems. So that I am the first academic they will see in terms of those first four lectures and then it gets handed on to other people. So of course, these students are …
Valuing our teaching
February 1, 2011
Video >> Paul Greatrix: “I think recognising excellent teaching is hugely important and before I came to Nottingham, I was impressed from afar with the Lord Dearing Awards because they seemed to me to be an explicit and overt way of really celebrating teaching within the University. They are very competitive and the award of them …
Developing curiosity
Video >> Saul Becker: “When our students come here we are giving them the best knowledge that is available at that time and we’re also teaching them how to make judgements about the quality of that knowledge, so we are hopefully teaching them that some things are pretty certain and some things are less certain …
Katharina Lorenz on teaching critical skills
Video >> Katharina Lorenz: “There’s an advantage looking at Classics to actually practice some of the analytical skills one needs to understand cultures better. “I think this is one of the real essence of doing something like Classics is to force people to be very, to scrutinise what they see in the world around them …
Optimising small group teaching in Psychology
September 21, 2010
Antonia Hamilton: Background & Significance “Small group teaching (tutorials) forms an essential part of the psychology course and is valued by students, with many students asking for more contact with tutors. However, the quality of small group teaching can be very variable, as noted in the recent National Students Survey results for University of Nottingham. …
Guiding students in reading for seminars
June 26, 2010
Video >> Kate: “What can you do to help and support students who are maybe struggling with those skills?” Nick Thomas: “We tailor the reading list very closely, or at least I do, for the seminars so that the recommended titles are made very clear for that particular seminar. It’s very clear which books are …
Helping students to identify what they’ve learned on placement
January 26, 2010
Video >> Annie: “We’ve had students out on placement before. They usually stay with us for about six weeks, and towards the end of the six weeks they’re starting to be involved with patient education. They do the sessions, the patient education sessions at phase three. They become more confident talking about coronary heart disease …
Learning Sets as a strategy to enable learning from a work placement
Video >> Alison: “I think the role of the learning set, for me, in bringing students and mentors to share their practice is to develop critical thinking, to actually enable students and mentors to critically discuss, have time to reflect, have time to think about and challenge practice and then usually take some action, personal …
Linking theory and practice: guiding students on a work placement
Video >> Alison: “In a lot of work related professions where there’s work experience and it comes across whether you have sandwich courses or courses where the practice is integrated in different ways. I think you’re in school one minute and you’re out of the practice setting, you’ve got classroom world-real world, and I think …
Portfolio compilation: evidencing learning and professional development
Video >> Alison: “I think portfolios are getting increasingly important. They seem to underpin a lot of professional education as a strategy, or a tool, for assessing, formatively, or summatively, students’ progress. And the NMC requires it, that’s the Nursing and Midwifery Council, once you’re qualified, that you could be asked to submit one every …
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