Designing and Planning Curriculum

In their shoes: Understanding the international student perspective

In this recording, Jason Cormick-Dockery and Abraham Punnen discuss barriers to learning faced by international students and make recommendations for promoting an inclusive environment.

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Motivating academic engagement with employability skills

A pilot program at FIC is not only preparing new international students for the job market post-graduation, but also having a positive impact on motivating students in their academic study.

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Do you understand?: Ways to check understanding in the classroom

Kimi Anderson shares effective strategies and tips that teachers can implement to gauge students’ level of understanding in the classroom.

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L&T Framework: Prevailing pedagogies

Explore the principles that underpin our learning and teaching practices and commitment to meeting the needs of our diverse groups of students.

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Mood before matter: Building teacher-student relationships

Lecturer from SAE Qantm Perth, Sam Cutri, looks at innovative strategies and techniques to building teacher-student relationships.

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Scaffolding learning and maximising engagement

Dr Lincoln Gomes and Anselm Paul demonstrate how Bloom’s taxonomy and flipped learning can be applied to design lessons that will maximise engagement from learners.

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Group assignments: Improving the experience for students and teachers

In this recording, Lee Ridge highlights some of the strategies that have been used to increase student collaboration and improve outcomes using group assignments.

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The growth mindset: The power of acknowledging potential

Denise Metzger from UNSW shares ideas on how to help teachers and managers move from a ‘fixed’ to ‘growth’ mindset in changing educational contexts.

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Strategy Sessions: Connecting conceptual disciplines to the real world

Matthew Thurgood explains how to develop critical thinking in students by facilitating the application of theoretical concepts to the ‘real world’.

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Surfacing the hidden curriculum: Learning the rules of academic writing

Richard Ingold looks at how knowledge of language and writing conventions can impact students’ chances of success and provides practical advice on supporting student writers.

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Surfacing the hidden curriculum: What matters in your industry?

Sharon Aris looks at how knowledge is valued and practised in industry to reveal how it can be made more explicit to students in their classroom and assessment work.

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