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Mark Carne. Inspiring teaching staff to improve teaching and learning. Inspiring staff to improve teaching and learning. Would you like less marking? Would you like to spend your day with enthusiastic learners? Would you like to improve your success rates?
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Mark Carne Inspiring teaching staff to improve teaching and learning
Inspiring staff to improveteaching and learning • Would you like less marking? • Would you like to spend your day with enthusiastic learners? • Would you like to improve your success rates? • Would you like access to proven and effective teaching materials produced by experts? • Would you like to stretch your learners and see them perform at their best?
Improving teachingand learning can ... • Help learners complete work on time, to the standard required and reduce the amount of re-marking needed • Make lessons more fun for learners and lecturers • Increase success rates • Increase students’ self-confidence, determination to succeed and appreciation of their subject
How do I start improving teachingand learning? • Talk to your colleagues, look at their assignments and their worksheets • Look critically at your lesson plans and teaching material: does every single session move the learner closer to achieving their goals? • Use the VLE more: set up more quizzes and tests. Learners love scoring top marks in tests.
Improving teachingand learning? • Monitor your industries’ websites and newspapers – working with cutting edge ideas will inspire your learners • Review your assignments and your classroom activities: are you providing the support weaker learners need to achieve AND challenging the more able learners to excel?
Improving teachingand learning: some thoughts • Every activity should take the students closer to achieving their learning goal (if it doesn’t, why are you doing it?) • If students don’t learn the way you teach, maybe, you have to teach the way they learn • Inappropriate materials alienate students. Lessons must be challenging. • Every lesson should have clear aims. If students don’t know where they are going, it is no surprise if they don’t get there.
Improving teachingand learning: some thoughts • Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings. -- Samuel Johnson