engagement – Page 2 – Teaching@Sydney

Assessment, Educational integrity, News & events, Sydney Curriculum 17 January, 2023 18 January, 2023

Assessment in 2023

by Adam Bridgeman

One of the most difficult aspects of remote teaching has been assessment. The shift of assessment, including exams, online ensured that students could continue…

Portrait of happy smiling young woman with headphones listening

Foster a sense of belonging and community, Law, Measure and support engagement, Student experience, Teaching tips, Use engaging approaches to content delivery 16 September, 2022 16 September, 2022

Tort law ‘on the go’: using podcasts to cover key cases

by Lana Kolta

Primary materials for teaching tort law are case law and statutes. This year, Dr Gemma Turton experimented with using podcasts in LAWS5001 Torts, to…

Eight roundtable participants sitting at the front of a lecture theatre

Be human, Build teacher-student relationships, Core pedagogical principles, Foster a sense of belonging and community, Inclusive teaching, News & events, Off-campus learning, Student experience, Teaching tips 26 July, 2022 26 July, 2022

Being human together – insights from students and teachers at the 2022 Sydney Teaching Symposium roundtable

by Alix Thoeming

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…

Arts and Social Sciences, Build teacher-student relationships, Student experience, Teaching tips 29 June, 2022 29 June, 2022

‘If we want student engagement, we need to engage academic staff first’: teaching in a changing online environment.

by Leanne Stevenson

Dr Simon Kwok holds a PhD from Cornell University and specialises in time series econometrics and finance: ‘essentially a study of how observations align…

Arts and Social Sciences, Build teacher-student relationships, Have clear communications and expectations 15 June, 2022 15 June, 2022

Using Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) in Courses

by Matthew A. M. Thomas

Information Overload Several years ago, a picture of an American professor angrily pointing to a t-shirt underneath his unbuttoned dress shirt went viral. The…

Be human, Build teacher-student relationships, Core pedagogical principles, First Year Coordinators, Foster a sense of belonging and community, News & events 28 April, 2022 29 April, 2022

Disconnection and humanising teaching

by Ruth Weeks

Recently there have been reports of a growing phenomenon of disconnection among students in the media. I’m sure that many of us can relate…

Arts and Social Sciences, Be human, Build teacher-student relationships, Core pedagogical principles, Foster a sense of belonging and community, Inclusive teaching, Student experience 13 April, 2022 13 April, 2022

Well-being first: Building relationships in online teaching spaces

by Leanne Stevenson

Phillip Poulton and Rachel Yoo are PhD candidates and tutors in the Sydney School of Education and Social Work, and also qualified primary school…

Foster a sense of belonging and community, News & events, Student experience 25 March, 2022 25 March, 2022

Welcoming students back to campus

by David Edward Connaghan

A successful orientation and transition experience is vital in developing a sense of belonging to the University, which is itself strongly linked to both…