The lecturer-student relationship
November 24, 2009
Video >> Swetha Aknoor: “If you look at the Indian culture, technically, our teachers supposed to be as God for us. We have this thing, you know, the father, the mother and the teacher are all God. So yeah, our teachers, we do have to have a lot of respect for them, we can’t take …
The staff experience of learning from internationalisation
September 30, 2009
Video >> Martin Binks, NUBS: “Certainly teaching in other countries, which I’ve done quite a bit of, you learn a huge amount because there are suddenly areas of behaviour or attitudes that you’ve never come across before. “It has made me recognise the need to get feedback from the students in their body language and …
Engaging students in learning communication skills
April 14, 2008
Video >> Paul Crawford: “The key for me is engagement, some students, for one reason or another, might be tiredness, maybe family problems or maybe just they’ve not, sort of, keyed in. I don’t think they’re to be ignored, so I’m working at engagement even with people that might be difficult to engage with for …
Using aims at the beginning of a session to aid learning
July 9, 2004
Video >> Do Coyle: “I think it’s really important that at the beginning of any session, with any learners, that there’s clarification around where we’re going in a particular session. “I would expect them to do that with, say, pupils in school. I would expect the most erudite of professors to do that with their …
Managing the personal side of small group teaching
January 8, 2004
Video >> Pam: “You have to draw distinctions very much between the teacher and the assessor, and I think all of us have to change hats from time to time. You want to be supportive, you want to be encouraging you have to understand that somebody is having a bad day, that other things are …
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