Teaching Skills Development Program

• Program Description
• Aims
• Outcomes
• Schedule
• Face to Face Program
• Laboratory Demonstrator Training
• Learning Technologies Training for Tutors
• Further Information

Program Description

Tutorials provide a rich learning environment for both students and tutors. The Teaching Skills Development Program is available in a workshop and on-line format. It includes a number of tips, strategies and principles for facilitating discussion, handling student diversity, identifying plagiarism and marking essays, among others. This program is only available to tutors who are currently teaching or will be teaching in Semester 1. Enrolment is essential for either the face-to-face or on-line program (LMS).

Aims

• Provide tips/strategies for planning tutorials, facilitating discussion, marking essays.
• Develop an understanding of issues of diversity in teaching and learning.
• Introduce Murdoch's approach to academic integrity and plagiarism.

Outcomes

Participants who complete the entire program will:

• understand how to plan an effective tutorial and begin to plan sessions that encourage student interaction;
• be more aware of issues of student diversity and employ appropriate responses in teaching;
• be aware of, and implement the Murdoch approach to, academic integrity.

Schedule 2009

The Teaching Skills Development Program is available online for staff and affiliate staff who are unable to attend the workshop, or who choose to undertake the program flexibly.

Enrolment for Online Program

Once you have been allocated a staff number, you can enrol online via the link to Learning Management System (LMS) Enrolment Self Service on your MyTeaching page.

To self enrol for the program:

1. login to the Staff Portal – MyMurdoch
2. select MyTeaching
3. select the link to LMS Enrolment Self Service
4. click Enrol for the Teaching Skills Development Program (2009)

Face to Face Program

To enrol online:

Semester 2, 2009 program - Monday 27th July 2009
Semester 1, 2009 program - Tuesday 17th February 2009

Note: sessions will only run with a minimum of eight participants.
Maximum number of participants for each session is 20.

Archived: 2005-2008 workshops

Further Information

For enrolment and enquiries:
Ms Sue Senior
Organisational Capability
4th Floor Library North Wing 4.30
Murdoch Campus

+61 (08) 9360 2531
s.senior@murdoch.edu.au