Development Opportunity for New Sessional Academic Staff
The Sessional Staff Teaching and Learning Program aims to orient new sessional staff to learning and teaching at Western; assist them in developing active learning environments with their students and; support staff with using enquiry-oriented methods to frame individual professional development goals as sessional academics. The program runs twice a year during autumn and spring semesters.
What is the Program about?
The Program is designed to support new sessional academic staff to
- Examine their students' engagement in learning to adapt their approaches to teaching
- Identify strategies to improve responsiveness to culturally diverse learning environments
- Track down some of the different technological platforms available at WSU to support teaching and learning to consider how they might be used to improve the educational experience
- Use research-informed guidelines on effective feedback to reflect on the approaches to assessment within their units
- Locate a variety of sources of feedback on their teaching and their students' learning to inform their work in unit and course teams
- Exchange strategies and sources of support with other academic colleagues
This Program is facilitated through a flipped delivery mode where attendees are required to:
- complete online modules which focus on teaching practice (1 hour)
- attend an interactive, participant-focused, face-to-face workshop (2 hours).
NOTE: Non-completion of the online module activities by the required completion date will result in exclusion from the face-to-face workshop.
Register your interest for this program in Autumn 2020
Workshop Dates: Wednesday 18 March or Friday 27 March, 2020
Time: 10am - 12pm
Location: Parramatta South Campus
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Reimbursement: All sessional staff who complete the program can claim three hours work (one hour’s pay for completing the orientation and independent study modules and two hours pay for attending the face to face session). Details of claiming will be sent to Sessional staff who register and attend the face-to-face workshop. Entitlements for reimbursent are only available for first time participants.
If you have any additional questions about the program, contact Gina Saliba – Lecturer, Learning Transformations.
