Teaching & Learning Updates
Sept 2017
Friday Morning Meetings and CPD
Some weeks, certain teams will be gathered together in cross-College meetings-
Access
HE
TAFs
Tutor Mentors
Functional Skills Teachers
ProMonitor Champions
If no-one has contacted you about when you're expected to attend these meetings yet, you can check the schedule for these meetings here
What's new on the TLA Page?
Most of the links you'll regularly need can be seen on the first page and all Teaching & Learning content is now housed under the A-Z. Some of the newest additions here are the 'assessment strategies', 'differentiation' and 'in-session target setting.' Keep checking back as more pages are added and existing ones are updated.
Please email me with any feedback on the usability of the site, requests you might have for content to be added, or any suggested materials we can showcase.
Your Learning
Evidence-Informed CPD Project
The project provides colleagues with the opportunity to learn more about the following teaching approaches and test them in their own contexts-
Retrieval practice and use of knowledge organisers
Revision techniques supported by cognitive science
Modelling and metacognition
Responsive teaching through questioning and checking for understanding
Redrafting for excellence and Austin's Butterfly
Guest Blogging
We are looking for other guest blogs.
- Do you have some effective practice you'd like to share with colleagues?
- Have you engaged in some CPD recently and you'd like to share this learning more widely?
- Have you read something recently that has provoked some reflections for you?
Whatever it is then we want to hear from you. Please email your posts or ideas to Hannah.Tyreman@sheffcol.ac.uk
Online courses starting soon!
What follows below are a list of courses you can engage in online right now-