Managing difficult conversations in the classroom
With around 75,000 students at The University of Sydney it should come as no surprise that occasionally they, and we, might feel differently about…
Pharmacy Students Working with Museum Collections and Artefacts – A Case for Object-Based Learning
For an incoming first-year pharmacy student, understanding how their chosen profession has evolved and developed over time will enable a better appreciation and connection…
Being human together – insights from students and teachers at the 2022 Sydney Teaching Symposium roundtable
It’s the middle of 2022 and we’ve had two and a half very strange years at Sydney. Two and a half years of figuring…
A shared sense of place – empowering culturally responsive teaching
What is culturally responsive teaching? To be a culturally responsive teacher is to be “able to understand and consider the different cultural backgrounds of the people (we) teach“. The University of Sydney is an…
Important Canvas updates for semester 1 2022
Canvas has been updated with new features for 2022 including anonymous posting on discussion boards, the ability to add and/or request your pronouns to…
Online Communication: Scale, Scope and Simplicity in FASS1000
2021 brought with it further challenges to teaching and new opportunities to reflect and learn. Centred on the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences…
Pharmacists’ Ways of Thinking and Ways of Doing through Object Based Learning
I found teaching inspiration for pharmacy education in the most unexpected place – Ancient Greece. It all started with a digital collection of artefacts…
To See, or Not To See? Who Decides The Answer?
The rapid transition to online teaching due to COVID-19 both in Australia and abroad has left us all in a strange new world. One…
Learning from the best: A case for intra-unit peer observation
Peer observation is terrifying. There, I said it. Many of us tertiary teachers walk into our first class with naught but a half-day orientation…
Supporting students through HELP funding changes
Since the end of the free tertiary education reforms introduced by the Whitlam government, most domestic students have seen their time at university supported…