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.
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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 to help with assessment and
marking. You will have the opportunity to assess and mark an example
assessment against a marking rubric with peers and reflect on the
experience. This workshop will give you the space to share best
practices in assessment and marking and explore what could work for you.
Outcomes:
1. Identify the principles and purpose of assessment and marking.
2. Identify actions you could take and improvements you could make with
future assessment and marking.
Content and format:
This synchronous session will build on the asynchronous Foundations in
Teaching content on the principles and purpose of assessment and
marking. This is an online session, held via MS Teams. You will work in
breakout rooms to discuss experiences, challenges, and concerns around
assessment and marking by working through an example assessment and
applying a marking rubric to it. 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.
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