Welcome to the Teaching & Learning Tutorial
As with any discipline, there is a wealth of research and information that can be used to inform your teaching in order to increase the quality of your students’ learning. We have tried to include accessible information that will allow you to increase your pedagogical (teaching/learning) awareness and knowledge. Throughout we try to give helpful hints for applying this current best practice in your classroom with your students.
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To get the most out this content, we suggest that you take a few minutes to familiarize yourself with the organization of these web pages.
- Organization of the Teaching & Learning Content
- For the Teacher on the Go! Download our Handbook
- Extend Your Learning
Let’s share what works well with our students; share our successes; share our challenges and share our knowledge and expertise.
From Teaching & Learning Authors: Laura Malbogat, Greg De Luca & Andy Brown
Organization of the Teaching & Learning Content
The content has been divided into 3 main areas which can be read from start to finish: Planning to Evaluation or you can just go to the area you are particularly interested in. Although we have divided the information into sections, it is worth remembering that all the various elements listed below intertwine and inform each other.
This area introduces things to think about before your course starts: the planning and design of your course.
- Learning Outcomes & Objectives: How to decide on the main focus of your course
- Course Planning & Design: How to design all elements of your course
- Multiple Intelligences: How to cater to different student learning styles
- Behaviourism & Constructivism: How to use these two theories to promote student learning
- Bloom’s Taxonomy: How to identify the knowledge types and thinking processes needed for students to be successful in your courses
For the Teacher on the Go! Download our Handbook
We have summarized the teaching & learning information from our website into a handy PDF document. Download it and read it on the bus or metro.
- Teaching and Learning Handbook for Continuing Education Instructors (PDF 34 pages)
Written and Compiled by: Greg De Luca, Contributors: Laura Malbogat, Andy Brown
Extend Your Learning
- Deep Learning vs. Surface Learning: Getting Students to Understand the Difference
– by Maryellen Weimer, PhD, Teaching Professor Blog - Characteristics of Deep and Surface Approaches to Learning
– This table from Houghton (2004) compares the characteristics and factors that encourage deep and surface approaches to learning. Compiled from Biggs (1999), Entwistle (1988) and Ramsden (1992).
Teaching & Learning Authors
Laura Malbogat Greg De Luca Andy Brown