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The SIBT teaching community professional development project

How can we extend the value we offer our teachers? How can we strengthen our teaching community?
What PD has the greatest impact on our students’ learning experience?

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Celebrating World Teachers’ Day: Global initiatives supporting and recognising teachers

In addition to college and campus celebratory events, we’re summarised initiatives supporting teachers at the global level.

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Donut worry! Sharing strategies to boost student attendance for mental health initiatives

Explore student mental health strategies shared between Melissa Mushikori (ICM, Canada) and colleagues in Australian colleges.

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Peer Observations Project (POP): a flexible approach to peer observation

The Peer Observations Project (POP) trialed at SIBT aims to encourage collaboration between teachers through observations with new and exisiting teaching staff in order to learn from others without the the pressure of being observed by a manager.

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Collective case building: an innovative approach to active learning

Saad Qureshi highlights key features of ‘Collective case building’, a new active learning teaching method that is an extension of traditional ‘Case based learning’.

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Celebrating Advance HE’s HEA Fellows

Learning & Teaching Services are delighted to announce the Higher Education Academy in the UK has awarded 15 Navitas staff with new Fellowships.

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Making groups work: Embedding team engagement in assessment

How do you assess group work and engage students in the process? Renuka Pathmasuntharam from Curtin College shares a model with great learning outcomes.

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Recognising teaching excellence: Navitas Advance HE Fellowship Program

The Navitas HEA Fellowship program is a ‘wrap around’ support program to assist you with the process of writing your application, creating a network of peer support and feedback, along with providing expert feedback mechanisms.

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Academic Integrity Awareness Week: Research integrity matters

ACAP’s Academic Integrity Awareness Week aims to raise awareness of the importance of academic integrity to students and staff.

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Intercultural communication for university classrooms

This lecture focuses on cultural differences that can lead to miscommunications and other challenges in the context of American Higher Education.

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Can classroom engagement and positive psychology help address anxiety among students?

Explore some teaching strategies that can help provide a safe and supportive classroom environment.

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English language teachers and the native speaker fallacy

Students want both native and non-native English-speaking teachers, but Victoria Phillips’s research finds that hiring practices may not always reflect this.

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Navigating academic culture with international students

When international students move from one academic culture to another, they encounter differences with the students at their new college or university. The main difference we often focus on is the language proficiency of international students compared to domestic students. However, there can be deeper philosophical and cultural differences in terms of learning and teaching;…

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Scaffolding assessment completion with H5P learning interactives

Ges Ng and Rebecca Rosemoore present early findings from a pilot project which aimed to provide students with active learning opportunities using H5P.

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Power and the Wave: Scaffolding students’ academic writing

Richard Ingold from Navitas English shares various teaching tools required for successful academic writing, including Power Words and Power Grammar.

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Using the SAMR model to innovate assessment design

Bronwyn Mortimer and Gemma Clarke share how they achieved a complete redefinition of traditional group oral presentations using the S.A.M.R model.

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