Foundations in Teaching - Assessment Literacy

Course Code
50291330

Provider
OD&PL

Tutor(s):
Rachel Haworth,Ryan Prescott,Maria King

Suitability
It is aimed at postgraduates and staff who are new to teaching and have
completed the Foundations in Teaching online course and want to develop
their teaching practice. Some experience of teaching would be useful,
but not essential.

If the event is FULL, then please register on our waiting list by
emailing your details to Organisational Development and Professional
Learning - academicdev@leeds.ac.uk.

Date(s)
Monday, November 03, 2025, 10:00 to 11:30

Max Places:
30

Description

Pre-work:

Please complete the online Foundations in Teaching course
before attending. You can book this course if you haven't completed it
yet through the FiT webpage: https://studenteddev.leeds.ac.uk/getting-
started-in-se/

Aims:

This is an interactive session designed for you to share any concerns
you might have or support you might need around the topic of assessment
literacy.
You will have the opportunity to share with your peers any experiences
you’ve had or situations that you are worried about with dealing with.
This workshop will give you the space to share best practices in
teaching and explore what could work for you.

Outcomes:

1. Discuss effective ways to design and plan your teaching to ensure
constructive alignment between learning outcomes, teaching activities,
and assessments.
2. Identify actions you could take and improvements you could make with
future teaching design to support students development of assessment
literacy.

Content and format:

This synchronous session will build on the asynchronous Foundations in
Teaching content on designing and planning your teaching. This is an
online session, held via MS Teams. You will work in breakout rooms to
discuss experiences, challenges, and concerns around assessment literacy
and constructive alignment. These discussions will allow you to share
best practice and identify actions you can take with your own future
practice.

Learning and Teaching Methods:

Participants will be guided on how to share their reflections in
facilitated breakout activities, and how to use those discussions to
develop actions.

Tutors:

Rachel Haworth - Academic Development Consultant, OD&PL
Ryan Prescott - Student Education Development Advisor, OD&PL
Maria King - Student Education Development Advisor, OD&PL

Related Events:

There will be futher 'Developing your teaching' sessions covering other
areas of teaching practice.

Mapping to the PSF:

This workshop relates to A3 (area of activity – assess and give feedback
for learning) of the PSF. Once you have a minimum of 12 months
experience of teaching in Higher Education you are able to prepare an
application for Associate Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy.