This page contains the supporting resources and recordings related to the Monday 18 July 2022 Sydney Teaching Symposium. This popular event highlighted approaches to teaching and assessment developed by colleagues across the University which are practical, transferable, and student-centred.
Symposium themes and program
Check out the main symposium page.
Get further equipped for teaching
Around the symposium, a number of professional learning workshops will be run to further equip Sydney educators with the tools to redesign their curriculum, delivery, student support and engagement, and assessment approaches. They will be delivered by Educational Innovation with assistance from experienced teachers from across the institution.
- Modular Professional Learning Framework winter school
- Tuesday 19 July – M01 Principles of learning and teaching and M03 Inclusivity and diversity
- Wednesday 20 July – M08 Engaging students in lectures and large classes and M05 Assessment and feedback for learning
- Thursday 21 July – M13 Designing for blended and online learning and M14 Online tools for interactive and collaborative learning
- Friday 22 July – M21 Supporting interdisciplinary learning
- Monday 25 July – M11 Microteaching
- Monday 1 August – M09 Engaging students in small classes
- Tuesday 2 August – M09 Engaging students in small classes
- Educational Innovation workshops
- Thursday 21 July – Setting up for assessment success in Canvas
- Friday 22 July – Easy video editing with Adobe Premiere Rush
- Wednesday 27 July – Teaching in HyFlex
- From late July – Getting semester-ready on Canvas
- Student Relationship Engagement System (SRES) workshops – build stronger relationships and engage your students personally, at scale
- Monday 25 July and Tuesday 26 July – SRES for beginners: getting started with personalisation
- Tuesday 26 July – SRES for intermediate users
Sydney educators can also book a 30 minute online consultation with an educational designer at any time.
Symposium recordings
Vice-Chancellor and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education) Welcome and Vision for Education at Sydney – Mark Scott and Joanne Wright
We are working on making the video available, but in the meantime, here is the audio recording.
Student and staff roundtable: Being human at Sydney – connection and belonging in postnormal times – led by Alix Thoeming and alessandra wollaston
[1A1] Five simple approaches towards building strong student-teacher relationships in large cohorts – Hamish Fernando
[1A2] Collaborating with students to develop curriculum and learning resources – Joanne Hart, Robert Chen & Bella Kontorovich
[1A3] Learning from the pandemic: the need for connection and flexibility – Alice Huang & Matthew Clemson
Session 1A Q&A
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[1B1] It’s the little things: supporting student learning in the post-COVID environment – Bronwyn Simpson
[1B2] Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) and ‘fireside chats’ for Courses: Building student’s knowledge and engagement (plus saving time) -Victoria Rawlings
[1B3] Establishing connections for student learning in first year occupational therapy – Joanne Hinitt & Kria Coleman
Session 1B Q&A
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[2A1] Notes from the apocalypse: Building relationships in a group-work based unit with 1100 students – Michael Wheatland & Tara Murphy
[2A2] Smart Responses to Communicating: Developing a podcast assessment for first year students – Moira Dunsmore & Heather Shepherd
[2A3] Engaging consumers and actors to deliver education and assessments in the classroom: a pharmacy case study – Sarira El-Den & Claire O’Reilly
Session 2A Q&A
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[2B1] Designing to the edges with UDL: A first-year writing case study – Benjamin Miller & Sarah Humphreys
[2B2] Disrupting the Margins, Decentering the Middle: Creating Culturally Safe Teaching and Learning Spaces – Amy McHugh-Cole & Matthew Tyne
[2B3] Create your own Padlet adventure – Andy Smidt & Toni Stanford
Session 2B Q&A
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[3A1] Two-sided teaching: Managing large tutor teams and large student cohorts simultaneously – Madeleine Borthwick
[3A2] Zoonotic Viruses and Zoom: How the Pandemic Redefined Clinical Education – Smitha Sukumar
[3A3] Team-teaching to enrich team-based experiential learning when transitioning from face-to-face to online learning – Eliza Wu
Session 3A Q&A
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[3B1] Connecting through collections: Object-Based Learning at the Museum – Jane Thogersen & Eve Guerry
[3B2] Finding your way home: Redesigning how students and staff engage with information at scale – Peter Bryant & Elaine Huber
[3B3] The BUSS1000 story: managing the anxious transition to university – Jane Kerr & Carmen Vallis
Session 3B Q&A
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More information
This symposium is being organised by the Educational Innovation team in the DVC (Education) Portfolio, and is led by Eszter Kalman, Alix Thoeming, Samantha Clarke, and Danny Liu. To contact us, please email [email protected].