2022 Sydney Teaching Symposium

Join us on Monday 18 July 2022 for the annual Sydney Teaching Symposium. This popular event highlights approaches to teaching and assessment developed by colleagues across the University which are practical, transferable, and student-centred. This year, as we start shifting gears to a post-COVID reality, we will be discussing how we support students in perhaps unfamiliar ways of learning, how assessment and feedback can be reimagined, how to teach well again face-to-face, what it’s like to build relationships with students, how team teaching benefits us all and, importantly, how we can design and deliver inclusive and equitable learning experiences for all students.

 

Key details

Date: Monday 18 July 2022 from 9:00 am AEST

Venue: Face-to-face in the Abercrombie Building H70, with a live broadcast option for those who are unable to make it to campus. Zoom details have been emailed to all registrants.

Cost: Free but registration is essential. This event will be catered – please indicate any dietary requirements upon registration.

Availability:
University of Sydney staff and students, as well as staff from other higher education institutions.

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Symposium themes

Teaching and supporting the COVID generation:
After two years learning mostly over Zoom, students may be feeling isolated and unfamiliar with university learning practices. How are we supporting students to transition to new ways of learning, for both students new to university and those who have been here but predominantly online?

Reimagining assessment and feedback practices:
The last two years has seen an impressive rethinking of our assessment towards authentic, digital-first practices. How will assessment and feedback look in 2022 and beyond?

Effective face-to-face teaching: Students have been seeking to return to campus to learn and reconnect with their teachers and peers. There is also a growing recognition of a grassroots need for flexibility in teaching mode. How are we making on-campus teaching in 2022 work effectively in different parts of the University?

Relationship-rich education: Connection, community, and relationship have never been more important. How are we building relationship-rich student-student and student-teacher experiences?

Team-based teaching: Teaching as part of a team has many benefits – additional perspectives, reflection, and collegial support. How are teaching teams working well in different contexts and how can we continue to support each other as educators?

Designing and teaching for equity and inclusion: Almost 1 in 10 students at the University are from an equity cohort (low SES, rural/remote, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander). How are we designing teaching so that we ‘teach to the edges’ as opposed to the middle, for the benefit of all learners?

 

Symposium program

All times are in Sydney time (Australian Eastern Standard Time).

Physical locations are in Abercrombie Building H70.

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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.

Sydney educators can also book a 30 minute online consultation with an educational designer at any time.

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].