Teaching and Learning
Teaching and Learning Workshops for Doctoral Researchers
The Graduate School is pleased to offer this provision, which has been designed and is delivered by our colleagues in the Westminster Centre for Education and Teaching Innovation (CETI).
This series of workshops will equip doctoral researchers with the fundamental theories, principles and pedagogical applications of teaching in higher education. The eight 2 ½ hour sessions will provide doctoral researchers with opportunities to explore, reflect upon and discuss learning theories and principles for giving feedback and assessing learning as well as to evaluate teaching practices by means of observations. The last three sessions are devoted to putting theory into practice through peer teaching and peer feedback.
Overview
Week 1: Learning theories
Week 2: Pedagogy and practical approaches: reflection
Week 3: Lesson planning
Week 4: Feedback and assessment
Week 5: Reflection and discussion on observations
Week 6: Peer teaching practice
Week 7: Peer teaching practice
Week 8: Feedback and evaluation on peer teaching practice
This provision is open to all doctoral researchers, but priority will be given to those who have been unable to secure any teaching duties and/or those who have some teaching duties but do not have the required number of hours required to undertake the University Certificate of Special Study: Supporting Learning in Higher Education (SLHE).
There will be 16 places available in 2024-25 (semester 2) and these will be allocated to those who meet the application criteria after the closing date:
i) that you do not have sufficient hours to apply for/are not enrolled on the Westminster Certificate of Special Study in Supporting Learning
ii) that if offered a place you are committed to attending all eight workshops in the series, as this is a sequential programme which builds on skills and knowledge gained in earlier sessions.
Completed application forms (see link at the end of this page) should be emailed to Nicola Allett: n.allett@westminster.ac.uk by 5pm, 10th January 2025.
The workshops are planned to run on campus (1:30pm – 4pm) as follows:
Week 1 20th January 2025
Week 2 27th January 2025
Week 3 3rd February 2025
Week 4 10th February 2025
Week 5 17th February 2025
Week 6 24th February 2025
Week 7 3rd March 2025
Week 8 10th March 2025