pre-work – Teaching@Sydney

First Year Coordinators, Medicine and Health, Offer meaningful assessment, feedback and academic integrity, Student experience, Use engaging approaches to content delivery 10 February, 2024 10 February, 2024

Getting Every Student to Open the Book and do Assigned Readings: An Integrated Workshop Design in First-Year Pharmacy

by Janet Cheung

In 2023, the Sydney Pharmacy School implemented a new vertically integrated curriculum. Incoming first-year students enrolled in the Pharmaceutics and Pharmacy Practice (PHAR1921) unit…

Have clear communications and expectations, Teaching tips, Use engaging approaches to content delivery 4 August, 2023 4 August, 2023

Turning the tables: Getting your students hooked on their weekly readings

by Janica Nordstrom

Convincing students to complete the weekly readings before coming to university classes is a common struggle. More often than not, students show up to…

Build teacher-student relationships, Have clear communications and expectations, Teaching tips, Use engaging approaches to content delivery 30 January, 2022 31 January, 2022

The value of prework and how to ‘get them to do it’ in the new normal

by Robyn Martin

Although I take comfort that I am not alone in facing the challenge of getting students to complete class prework, it has always frustrated…

First Year Coordinators, Teaching tips 30 March, 2017 30 March, 2017

Engaging students in pre-work – wisdom from the crowd

by Danny Liu

Making sure students prepare for class and complete assigned work is a longstanding challenge for all educators. We’ve written on Teaching@Sydney previously about one…