53 Powerful Ideas All Teachers Should Know About
byIn Idea 30 – Departments differ widely in their teaching quality, Graham Gibbs focuses on the significance of the local departmental culture and respectfor…
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Students as Partners workshop with Professor Alison Cook-Sather
byOn Monday 10th October, Professor Alison Cook-Sather will be visiting the University. She will be giving a workshop on working in partnership with…
Promoting students’ personal and social skills: Sidekicks
byA program for studentsto learn about helping their friendswhen times are tough. A mental health and well-being survey conducted by Counselling and Psychological Services,…
Future of OLT: redirection of funding
byThe notice below about the future of the Office for Learning and Teaching is the statement from the Federal Government which appears on the…
Retaining and Engaging First-in-Family Learners in higher education
byAs part of her OLT Fellowship on Engaging and Retaining First-in-Family Learners, Associate Professor Sarah O’Sheawill be running a two-day forum exploring best practice…
Call for proposals: 2016 ePortfolio Forum ‘Connecting learning to the future’
by2016 ePortfolio Forum – Connecting learning to the future 28-29 September 2016 Sydney Conservatorium of Music The University of Sydney The call for proposals…
Congratulations! OLT grant success for Sydney staff
byThe Office for Learning and Teaching has announced the successful grants in its final grants round. (See report in this issue of Teaching@Sydney about…
Congratulations to the Widening Participation travel grant recipients
byCongratulations to the following recipients of 2016 Widening Participation travel grants: Maegan Baker, Cathryn Forsyth,Melissa Hardie,Rebecca Johinke,Melinda Lewis, Renee Lim, Kieryn McKay,Alison de Pree-Raghavanand…
Small changes in teaching: the minutes before class
byIn a series of articles inThe Chroniclefrom his book “Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons From the Science of Learning“,James M. Lang presents simple and practical…
Call for proposals: Australian Conference on Science & Mathematics Education
byACSMEis a great opportunity for university-level science and mathematics educators to share ideas andinnovations and hearabout key new ideas and research on student…