{"id":3977,"date":"2017-04-05T11:38:08","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T01:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sydney.edu.au\/education-portfolio\/ei\/teaching@sydney\/?p=3977"},"modified":"2017-04-05T11:38:08","modified_gmt":"2017-04-05T01:38:08","slug":"happened-week-4-open-door","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/educational-innovation.sydney.edu.au\/teaching@sydney\/happened-week-4-open-door\/","title":{"rendered":"What happened at Week 4 \/\/ Open Door?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Run from 27 until 31 March, Week 4 \/\/ Open Door is a University-wide event designed to enable all staff to see how others teach and to observe how innovative approaches work in practice.<\/p>\n<p>With 95 classes offered in the program, the event showcased a wide range of disciplines, class types and teaching techniques.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QrxK3NeJNnw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Held across five campuses, the &#8216;open door&#8217; classes allowed staff to sit with students and watch how they reacted, learned and engaged with the various approaches to teaching.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This week was an opportunity for staff to open up their classrooms for other staff to watch, and for the observers to see what students are seeing,&#8221; said <a class=\"usyd-js-load\" href=\"http:\/\/sydney.edu.au\/education-portfolio\/people\/adam.bridgeman.php\">Professor Adam Bridgeman<i class=\"icon-link-ext\"><\/i><\/a>, Director of Educational Innovation in the Education Portfolio.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We hold Week 4 \/\/ Open Door to enable our teachers to learn tricks and get tips from other teachers to take back into their own classrooms.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was fantastic to see so many classes open this week and so many people attending. I&#8217;d really like to thank all those who put themselves forward and participated,&#8221; said Professor Bridgeman.<\/p>\n<p>Marie Chellos, from the Conservatorium of Music, who attended Dr Rowena Cowley&#8217;s third-year pedagogy voice class at the Conservatorium, said: &#8220;I came out of interest, because I know this lecturer is a fantastic teacher, so I wanted to see her style. She was very informative, engaging and inspiring.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So what happened? We went to three classes to see what Week 4 \/\/ Open Door was all about.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3979\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3979\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sydney.edu.au\/education-portfolio\/ei\/teaching@sydney\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/adrian-week4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3979\" src=\"http:\/\/sydney.edu.au\/education-portfolio\/ei\/teaching@sydney\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/adrian-week4-300x185.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/educational-innovation.sydney.edu.au\/teaching@sydney\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/adrian-week4-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/educational-innovation.sydney.edu.au\/teaching@sydney\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/adrian-week4-370x228.jpg 370w, https:\/\/educational-innovation.sydney.edu.au\/teaching@sydney\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/adrian-week4.jpg 478w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3979\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr Adrian George engages his first-year chemistry lecture students in Week 4 \/\/ Open Door.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>Dr Adrian George<br \/>\nSchool of Chemistry, Faculty of Science<\/h2>\n<p><a class=\"usyd-js-load\" href=\"http:\/\/sydney.edu.au\/science\/people\/adrian.george.php\">Dr Adrian George<i class=\"icon-link-ext\"><\/i><\/a> ran an engaging first-year chemistry lecture for Bachelor of Pharmacy students, focusing on acids and bases.<\/p>\n<p>Using a variety of methods, Dr George kept his students&#8217; attention by breaking up the lecture with chemistry demonstrations (bright colours and humour!), and worksheet problems that they solved together on screen.<\/p>\n<p>Getting laughs out of a morning chemistry lecture is no easy task, and Dr George&#8217;s warm, amusing and informative tone was obviously appreciated by his students.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3981\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3981\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sydney.edu.au\/education-portfolio\/ei\/teaching@sydney\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/rowena-and-student.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3981\" src=\"http:\/\/sydney.edu.au\/education-portfolio\/ei\/teaching@sydney\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/rowena-and-student-300x185.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/educational-innovation.sydney.edu.au\/teaching@sydney\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/rowena-and-student-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/educational-innovation.sydney.edu.au\/teaching@sydney\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/rowena-and-student-370x228.jpg 370w, https:\/\/educational-innovation.sydney.edu.au\/teaching@sydney\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/rowena-and-student.jpg 430w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3981\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr Rowena Cowley leads a stretching exercise with her third-year pedagogy voice class at the Conservatorium of Music.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>Dr Rowena Cowley<br \/>\nSydney Conservatorium of Music<\/h2>\n<p><a class=\"usyd-js-load\" href=\"http:\/\/sydney.edu.au\/music\/staff-profiles\/rowena.cowley.php\">Dr Rowena Cowley<i class=\"icon-link-ext\"><\/i><\/a> shared her vast experience in teaching singing with her third-year pedagogy voice class, focusing on posture, anatomy and breathing.<\/p>\n<p>Making her class interactive, Dr Cowley used discussions, demonstrations and physical activities to engage her students, bringing the information to life with active student participation.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously well-liked and respected, Dr Cowley brought to her class her warmth, knowledge and impressive ability to address each student by name.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3982\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3982\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sydney.edu.au\/education-portfolio\/ei\/teaching@sydney\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/week_4_zoe_alderton.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3982\" src=\"http:\/\/sydney.edu.au\/education-portfolio\/ei\/teaching@sydney\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/week_4_zoe_alderton-300x185.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/educational-innovation.sydney.edu.au\/teaching@sydney\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/week_4_zoe_alderton-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/educational-innovation.sydney.edu.au\/teaching@sydney\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/week_4_zoe_alderton-768x473.jpg 768w, https:\/\/educational-innovation.sydney.edu.au\/teaching@sydney\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/week_4_zoe_alderton-1024x630.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/educational-innovation.sydney.edu.au\/teaching@sydney\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/week_4_zoe_alderton-370x228.jpg 370w, https:\/\/educational-innovation.sydney.edu.au\/teaching@sydney\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/week_4_zoe_alderton-570x351.jpg 570w, https:\/\/educational-innovation.sydney.edu.au\/teaching@sydney\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/week_4_zoe_alderton-770x474.jpg 770w, https:\/\/educational-innovation.sydney.edu.au\/teaching@sydney\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/week_4_zoe_alderton-1170x720.jpg 1170w, https:\/\/educational-innovation.sydney.edu.au\/teaching@sydney\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/week_4_zoe_alderton-943x580.jpg 943w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3982\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr Zoe Alderton gave an insightful analysis of how pathos is used in persuading an audience in her second year writing hub class in Week 4 \/\/ Open Door.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>Dr Frances Di Lauro<br \/>\nDirector of the Writing Hub, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences<\/h2>\n<p><a class=\"usyd-js-load\" href=\"http:\/\/sydney.edu.au\/arts\/writing_hub\/staff\/profiles\/frances.dilauro.php\">Dr Frances Di Lauro<i class=\"icon-link-ext\"><\/i><\/a> developed an interesting and stimulating Writing Hub class for second-year students on argumentation: theory and practice. 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