Develop experience and a working understanding of successful online teaching pedagogies that can be applied to your own teaching contexts. Designed for those who are new to teaching online or for experienced teaching staff wanting to improve the effectiveness of their existing practice.
Explore the benefits of lesson planning and common features of good lesson plans and further develop your skills.
This module provides an opportunity for you to examine diversity and inclusivity principles and policies from your institution and consider their application in your classroom.
Review the complex and multifaceted concepts behind a teachers’ professional identity. Examine the benefits and consider the factors which shape this identity.
Work collaboratively to articulate a prediction of the skills, knowledge and dispositions for the future workforce and design a lesson that nurtures these skills.
Understand learning and teaching at Navitas and think about your own teaching style and analyse how it aligns with the Navitas values and contexts. Explore the similarities and differences across the Navitas learning and teaching community.
Look at teaching and learning through your students’ eyes and innovate with empathy. Focusing on what innovation means in an educational context and exploring innovative teaching practices at Navitas.
Re-evaluate how assessment tasks are delivered in terms of applying basic, good practice, contemporary principles that often underpin success. Review the principles of contemporary assessment practices and how these relate to your teaching practice.
Review an assessment process cycle and note challenges of engaging students in this process. Explore strategies for involving students to develop their assessment literacy, while promoting a stronger sense of engagement and ownership in their own learning.
Explore the importance of assessment moderation and validation and learn how to undertake a critique of assessment practices against a set of guidelines and make recommendations to improve assessments.
Discuss the pros and cons of rubrics, see a handy 4-step guide to designing effective rubrics, compare different examples and create a rubric to evaluate a specific learning outcome.
Collaborate with educators to unravel principles of digital citizenship and how we might foster safe, responsible and ethical, digital practices. Design an infographic that can be used as a tool to help you support good digital citizenship.
Explore digital literacies relevant to higher education students and redesign an existing learning and teaching practice so as to develop students’ digital capabilities.
Reflect on your digital competencies with the aim of implementing small changes in the classroom setting. Build the capability of reflecting on teaching practice and the use of digital technologies to support technology enhanced learning.
