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Enhancing Educators: Training the Trainers in Higher Education

Equip university educators with essential tools to meet evolving student needs and global standards through comprehensive training on subject content, teaching methods, assessment strategies, and values like diversity and professional development.

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Enhancing Educators: Training the Trainers in Higher Education

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  1. THE NEED TO TRAIN THE TRAINERS

  2. Who • University lecturers /academics • Teaching assistants (such as research students who do tutoring etc) • Senior academics and administrators

  3. Why • Bologna (Impetus, and ‘stick’ but...) • Roles of universities • Massification • Heightened expectations of students, employers, and others • Fees

  4. What • Awareness : of wider context of student learning : institutionally, nationally and internationally; • Knowledge: Subject Content in relation to : Competences - generic and subject based; appropriate methods of t and l for level; how students learn generally and within subject; methods of assessment appropriate for level, and how to give appropriate feedback to encourage learning. use of appropriate learning technologies; methods for evaluating effectiveness of t and l; implications of QA for development :

  5. What else • Values: respect for students; integrity of subject input(research/content etc); commitment to subject and encouragement of participation acknowledging diversity of that contribution; promoting equality; commitment to continuing professional development and evaluation of own practices • Understanding: demonstrated through practice in tla, assisted curriculum development, assessment work etc

  6. When • Initial (focus on techniques and rationale: awareness and practice) • Continuing development ( deepening of understanding and evaluation)

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