SECTION C: ASPECTS OF SCHOLARLY TEACHING

(i) Developing aims and content for scholarly teaching

 

Aim 1:
  • Understand the formal relationships between aims/content and other elements of teaching : method, assessment and evaluation
  • Appreciate the special significance of relations between aims/content and an awareness of student perceptions of their learning context.
Topic 1:

How are aims/content/desired outcomes and other elements related? What is the nature of the connections?

Task:
  • In appropriate aims and content statements you will be able to recognise the student and his/her learning in those statements. What have you learned about your students, from assessing their work, that informs you when you formulate such statements?
  • What have you learned about your students, from your interviews with three students, from the practice of teaching and from having your teaching evaluated by students, that informs you about that same issue?

 

Read:
  • Prosser & Trigwell: pp 138-142 (two Science teachers talk about how they approach the aims and content of their teaching)
  • Ramsden: pp 134-5

 


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