Teaching Tuesdays@CSU
Teaching Tips & Links for SELF-DIRECTED LEARNING
Issue 37 - Managing Your Academic Workload
In this penultimate issue of Teaching Tuesdays@CSU for 2018, the focus is on ...
What can I do to manage and reduce academic work stress?
As we come to the end of another teaching year, the accumulated stress of the year can be tiring and challenging to deal with. In this bulletin, we link to a practical presentation with some good ideas for right now and for approaching the coming year. The further reading includes links to inspire our ongoing academic professional journey.
Testing the new CSU Learning Spaces Portal
Academics are invited to use the Learning Spaces Portal, which is currently being piloted, and give feedback.
Graduate Learning Outcomes Workshops On-campus
Are you looking for ways to incorporate the Graduate Learning Outcomes into your teaching arsenal? On-campus workshops will be run over the next few weeks where you can get help with your own subjects from GLO advisors. See below for details.
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Implementing the CSU Value IMPACTFUL in your teaching.
As a community of impactful professionals we are each thinking about how to best direct our efforts to secure results for our students and our communities. We take learnings from each of our experiences and have the gumption and tenacity to find a way past difficulties and obstructions.
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What can I do to manage and reduce academic work stress?
By Dr Stephanie Delaney
Source: https://www.magnapubs.com/mentor-commons/?video=15164
Common contributors to academic work stress include problems related to working with students, work-related stress and workplace political issues.
This short presentation provides practical advice with examples of how to deal with these stressors. Associated materials provide worksheets for you to develop your own resources and references for further reading.
Strategies for limiting the impact of stress
1. Anticipate student-related problems
- Based on your experience, proactively work on your responses to typical student problems.
- Create your own personal resource collection so you know where to send students for support outside their subject needs.
2. Anticipate work-related problems
- Read your emails! – not just emails from your students.
- Do the worst tasks first, such as having difficult conversations.
- Keep a journal – there is a link here to a great idea – the 10-year Journal – helpful for identifying recurring themes in your work life.
- Create your own personal resource collection so you know where to go for your own needs.
3. “Sharpen the saw” (from Stephen Covey’s “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People”)
- Engage in professional development – on- and off-campus for a range of reasons. (NOTE: As you are developing your EDRS for next year, plan for this)
- Engage in on-campus professional development related to your teaching resources.
- Take care of yourself – includes guidance on brainstorming how to use unscheduled extra time.
See below, PROFESSIONAL LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES AND RESOURCES No.4 for access instructions to Mentor Commons.
Or, contact
Ellen McIntyre elmcintyre@csu.edu.au
Matthew Larnach mlarnach@csu.edu.au
Further reading ...
Timeless Quotes for Teaching and Learning Inspiration
Working to Make a Difference
https://www.teachingprofessor.com/topics/for-those-who-teach/working-to-make-a-difference/
QUOTE: "...the importance of what we do course after course, semester after semester, year after year doesn’t change. It’s just as important the first time you teach, the last time, and all those times in between. In the beginning, most of us aspire to make a big difference in lots of students’ lives. After a few years we’re more realistic, puttering along, doing our best not to make a difference in the wrong direction, not making a difference at all, maybe making a little difference, but still believing that what we teach and what students can learn has the power to make a huge difference."
Reflections on Teaching: Learning from Our Stories
QUOTE: "If you’re looking for a good professional reading experience this summer, this is the book I’d recommend. You don’t often find pedagogical reading that effectively offers both information and inspiration. "
Reference: Shadiow, L. K. What Our Stories Teach Us: A Guide to Critical Reflection for College Faculty. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2012. Available as an eBook from CSU Library.
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Learning Spaces Portal Pilot
http://learningspaces.csu.edu.au
CSU Academics are invited to use the Learning Spaces Portal, which is currently being piloted, and give feedback.
The portal has been designed and tested to ensure the user can find information easily and quickly. There are a number of learning spaces that have been selected for this pilot. The Portal is designed to intuitively provide hints when searching to provide the greatest user experience. The Portal provides two main distinct areas of support:
1. How to enhance learning in the space.
Case studies have been created and added to the portal to show the different pedagogies that can be used in the learning spaces for further understanding and application of active learning for students.
2. How to use the technologies in the space.
Just-in-time, succinct, short, snappy videos have been created to show how to use the technology within the learning spaces.
For help with using the portal
Contact
Phillip Hua phua@csu.edu.au
Rachel Stewart-Allan rstewart-allan@csu.edu.au
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Graduate Learning Outcomes Workshops On-campus
The answer is probably YES!
If you support students to
- develop literacy skills,
- prepare them for professional life or
- expand their horizons to different cultures or a sustainable future,
Did you know the GLOs can now be included in your subject outline?
We'd like to help you...
- Choose the right few GLOs for your subject
- Assess your learning outcomes with clarity
- Come up with ideas for teaching the GLOs
- Offer you resources to make it easier
On-campus face-to-face workshops are being offered in Wagga Wagga this week, then Albury and Bathurst in the following two weeks.
Come along to these workshops to hear about and share strategies to embed the GLOs in your classroom... or learn how to clearly assess the GLOs in your existing subject learning outcomes.
More details are available on this flyer:
Lifelong Success for CSU Students.
Contact: Bruce Stenlake
Phone: 02 693 32969
Email: bstenlake@csu.edu.au
To get a head start, why not look at these two recent 20-minute online workshops on Digital Literacy and Information and Research Literacy. There are some great CSU resources also attached to the presentations to get you thinking about GLOs in your subjects.
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Monday Morning Mentor
Remember our highly popular Monday Morning Mentor earlier in 2018? The good news is we will have access to 32 more sessions in 2019. So, watch this space ...
The final 2018 Fall series has a few more editions to run. Each online seminar has the same format as 20-Minute Mentor with each topic available for one week only.
Remaining topics:
Nov 27 - How Can I Encourage Students to Stay Connected with Course Content After Class?
Dec 03 - How Can Talking through Subject Evaluations Improve my Teaching?
Dec 10 - How Can Promoting Academic Integrity Improve Learning Outcomes for Students?
Access details will be published in What's New.
Alternatively, contact
Ellen McIntyre emcintyre@csu.edu.au
Matthew Larnach mlarnach@csu.edu.au
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Follow Teaching Tuesdays on Twitter.
Our Twitter feed includes links to further hints, tips and resources in the broader field of teaching in higher education.
https://twitter.com/TeachingTuesday
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PROFESSIONAL LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES AND RESOURCES
1....Teaching support resources at CSU
2....CSU Professional Learning
3....Bonus CSU resource - Lynda.com
4....Magna Publications Subscriptions
5....Links to previous bulletins
6....Subscribe
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1. Teaching support resources at CSU
You have access to a range of quality CSU resources to help you incorporate educational resources and techniques into your teaching. Check out the following:
- Teaching at CSU - the Division of Learning and Teaching website with links to resources for Teaching Staff, Online Learning, Assessment, Curriculum, Indigenous Curriculum, Workplace Learning, Technologies, Feedback and Analytics, and Learning Spaces.
- Resources for Learning and Teaching Academic and Professional Staff - searchable CSU database
- Learning Technologies - the starting point for a range of learning design options
- CSU Learning Exchange: Technologies in Context - a searchable database to promote online learning and teaching strategies
- The CSU wiki - a faculty-based source of learning and teaching information and strategies
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2. CSU Professional Learning
The monthly bulletin lists available Professional Learning opportunities from CSU Division of Learning and Teaching (DLT).
Teaching-related topics are listed on the
DLT Professional Learning Calendar
DLT Calendar
Writing Assessment tasks in alignment to outcomes and marking criteria. Adobe Connect online session.
28 November 1:00 pm.
Launching Graduate Learning Outcomes in Subjects. On-campus sessions.
Wagga Wagga 27 Nov 10:00 am & 4:00 pm;
28 Nov 10:00 am
Albury 28 Nov 3:00 pm;
29 Nov 10:00 am
Bathurst 6 Dec 2:00 pm;
7 Dec 10:00 am
4. Magna Publications Subscriptions
All staff with a CSU email address have free access to our annual
CSU subscription to the
Magna Commons
Mentor Commons
The Teaching Professor and
Academic Leader.
Magna Commons and Mentor Commons video seminars also include the presentation handouts, full transcripts and supplementary resources are available for download if you don't have time to listen to the seminar.
The Teaching Professor and Academic Leader are focused text-based resources for teaching staff (TTP) and those in academic and adminstration leadership roles (AL).
How to subscribe
Staff with a CSU login can obtain the CSU subscription codes from
What's New until Christmas,
Alternatively, contact
Ellen McIntyre elmcintyre@csu.edu.au or
Matthew Larnach mlarnach@csu.edu.au
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The Teaching Professor
The Teaching Professor keeps readers informed of pedagogically sound techniques, new ideas, strategies that work, and pragmatic approaches for enhancing student learning and improving instructional effectiveness, regardless of teaching modality or academic discipline. Each week readers can expect thought-provoking and actionable advice on a wealth of critical topics in learning and teaching.
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Academic Leader
Academic Leader provides the information deans, chairs, and other academic decision-makers use for effective leadership within their colleges or departments and fulfil their institution’s primary missions of teaching and scholarship.
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20-Minute Mentor Commons
Mentor Commons offers on-demand versions of Magna's popular 20-Minute Mentor programs, covering a broad range of faculty development topics. All videos are accompanied by text resources, links to online resources and a certificate of completion.
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Magna Commons
Magna Commons offers on-demand versions of Magna's most popular Magna Online Seminars, covering a broad range of topics of interest to faculty & administrators. These longer videos are 45 to 90 minutes in length and are accompanied by text resources, links to online resources and a certificate of completion.
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3. Bonus CSU resource - Lynda.com
an online subscription library that teaches the latest business,
creative and software skills through high-quality instructional videos.
Why not take a course at your own pace?
There are thousands of courses at your disposal that you can take over the break.
Interested in
Photography - there are 600+ courses to choose from.
3D + Animation - 400+ courses
Digital Painting - 57 courses
... and plenty more topics to choose from in the Lynda.com Library
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Upcoming Teaching Tuesdays issues...
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5. Links to previous bulletins
Folder with all previous issues.
Issue 1 Group Work; Issue 2 Engagement; Issue 3 Engagement;
Issue 4 Academic Integrity; Issue 5 Feedback; Issue 6 Feedback;
Issue 7 Active Engagement; Issue 8 Building on Prior Learning;
Issue 9 Student Diversity; Issue 10 Learning Outcomes;
Issue 11 Deep Learning; Issue 12 The Teaching-Research Nexus;
Issue 13 Improving Student Learning; Issue 14 Planning for Effective Student Learning;
Issue 15 Feedback for Teaching; Issue 16 Gamification;
Issue 17 Activities for Effective Learning; Issue 18 Dialogic Feedback;
Issue 19 Student Evaluation; Issue 20 Enhancing Learning;
Issue 21 Rationale for Assessment; Issue 22 Motivating Learning; Issue 23 Peer Learning;
Issue 24 Improving Online Learning and Teaching; Issue 25 Teacher Presence;
Issue 26 Teaching Current Content; Issue 27 Online Learning Model;
Issue 28 Maximising Subject Experience Survey Response Rates; Issue 29 LEGO for Learning;
Issue 30 Intercultural Awareness for Learning; Issue 31 Reflective Teaching Practice;
Issue 32 Reflective Teaching for Learning; Issue 33 Teacher Presence Online;
Issue 34 Assessment Alternatives; Issue 35 Rubrics Demystified; Issue 36 Help! It's EDRS time
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