Recognising excellence in teaching and learning

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This year's winners and commendees of the Warwick Awards for Teaching Excellence (WATE) and Warwick Awards for Teaching Excellence for Postgraduates who Teach (WATE PGR) have been announced!

See the WATE website for full details on Warwick's fantastic colleagues and postgraduate tutors who are transforming learning and teaching for all our students.

William Rupp : 01 Jul 2016 09:11 |  Tags: Teaching Excellence Wate Watepgr |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Congratulations to our excellent PGR Teachers!

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The winners and commendees of this year's Warwick Awards for Teaching Excellence (PGR) habe just been announced. Congratulations to the winners and commendees who reflect the excellent teaching practice offered to our students.

To read more see: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/insite/news/intnews2/wate_pgr_winners_1415

Sarah Richardson : 23 Oct 2015 08:50 |  Tags: Awards Teaching Excellence |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Feedback strategies with growing student numbers

The History Department has traditionally used a mixed feedback strategy, providing written comments on formative student work throughout the year, followed by a 15 minute face to face essay tutorial. For summative feedback, written comment is provided on both essays and exams electronically via Tabula, providing brief comments and two or three 'ways to improve'. However, as a consequence of dramatically increasing student numbers, this strategy has come under strain. The departmental teaching fellows often teach 6-7 groups of 15 students per group on the same module. This means that they face not only marking 90+ essays within the allotted 20 days but also organising essay feedback sessions of 15 minutes each (22.5 hours!)

So, the Department are discussing alternative manageable feedback strategies and would welcome comments and suggestions. These are our thoughts so far:

• the minimum expectation is that formative essays will be marked within the 20 days and returned to students. Students will then be offered the chance for a face to face tutorial outside the 20 day window, but these will not be compulsory as in the past
• summative feedback will remain the same
• there will be a wider variety of feedback strategies in addition to, or instead of the written comments: audio feedback inserted into pdfs or word documents; annotated essays using track changes/comments; peer feedback in seminars; generic essay tutorials in class after the submission of a piece of work making general points about how the whole cohort tackled the assignment and ways to improve; adoption of forms/boxes to tick against marking criteria

We will discuss these strategies with our students but welcome any thoughts in our on-going discussions.

Sarah Richardson : 29 Sep 2015 09:51 |  Tags: Feedback Student Engagement Teaching Excellence |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

A SWOT Analysis of the Teaching Excellence Framework

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Sally Brown and Ruth Pickering have produced an excellent SWOT analysis of the government's proposed Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF): http://sally-brown.net/2015/07/teasing-out-the-nuances-of-the-teaching-excellence-framework/ The proposed Green Paper is due this autumn.

Sarah Richardson : 04 Aug 2015 14:32 |  Tags: Ntf Teaching Excellence; |  Comments (1) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

The Complete University Guide 2016 ranks 17 Warwick Departments in their Top Ten

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As discussions about the Teaching Excellence framework get underway this summer, it is pleasing to note that 17 Departments at Warwick have been ranked in the top ten for their disciplines in the Complete University Guide 2016: http://www.thecompleteuniversityguide.co.uk/warwick/performance

Sarah Richardson : 23 Jul 2015 06:57 |  Tags: Awards Recognition Teaching Excellence |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Interdisciplinary Teaching and Learning Event

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May 20th 2014, 10am-1pm

This event will celebrate the power of the interdisciplinary through the work of four National Teaching Fellows who will contribute, between them, three discrete 40-minute sessions.

• Dr Laura Ritchie, Teaching Fellow in music at The University of Chichester will invite colleague to learn the cello.
• Professors Carol Rutter and Paul Raffield will demonstrate their teaching methods in their shared Warwick module 'Shakespeare and the Law'.
• Dr Nicholas Monk, Deputy Director of IATL, will offer a series of 'take-away' exercises designed to appear to students across faculties and disciplines.

No preparation is required, other than a willingness to participate and collaborate.

The event is designed to demonstrate some of the ways in which teaching and learning styles and activities can function across disciplines and faculties. It is also intended to provoke questions, and will require that participants imagine their disciplines in slightly different ways from those to which they may have been accustomed. Perhaps your discipline and the way you teach is more 'interdisciplinary' than you think.

The three hours will conclude with a plenary and some definitions of what we might mean in our teaching and learning experiences when we talk of 'interdisciplinary', 'multidisciplinary' and 'transdisciplinary'.

To book a place see http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/ldc/tandl/workshops/interdisciplinary

Christine Smith : 17 Mar 2014 15:29 |  Tags: Pedagogical Research Teaching Methods |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

WATEPGR 2012/13 Winners and Commendees

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Congratulations to the Warwick Awards for Teaching Excellence for Postgraduate Research students Winners and Commendees.

This year we received over 130 nominations (a 30% increase on last year), with students from every faculty being nominated.

The winners will recieve £500 and commendees £200, to spend on their research or teaching activities. All nominees have been sent a congratulatory letter from the PVC for Education Jan Palmowski.

The awardees wil be presented their certificates at the Teaching Excellence Award ceremony on Wednesday November 6th. This is being hosted by Provost Professor Stuart Croft, and the PVC's for Education, Professors Christina Hughes and Jan Palmowski.

Winners	Commendees
Selin Cooper - Life Sciences Timothy Dodsworth - Law Jonathan Durham - French Eyre Hover - Engineering Joeseph Jackson - English	Owen Daniel - Mathematics Maria Kaparou - Education Simon Parker - WBS Victoria Turner - French Steven Wright - Computer Science

Find out about the winners' and commendees' excellent teaching at
http://www.warwick.ac.uk/watepgr/2013/

Christine Smith : 02 Nov 2013 16:08 |  Tags: Teaching Excellence |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Ramphal Rooms

In November 2011 IATL and the Space Management and Timetabling Team were awarded £1,000,000 from the University's Capital Investment Fund (CIF) to refurbish teaching rooms in the Ramphal building. Ramphal was chosen because it is heavily used by a broad and representative range of the student population. A research project to evaluate the success of the refurbishment was carried out in January-March 2013. To find out more about the refurbishment of the Ramphal building and to read the report please visit http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/ldc/tandl/excellence/themes/openspacelearning/iatlramphal/

The Ramphal Rooms are now available for booking. To request a specific layout for your session, please refer to the suggested layouts in the Ramphal rooms guide and email IATL.spaces@warwick.ac.uk to request your preference from A-J.

Letizia Gramaglia : 15 Jul 2013 14:24 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

HEA Call for proposals for workshop and seminar series, 2013–14.

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The Higher Education Academy’s call for workshop and seminar series (WSS) proposals for 2013-14 is now open, and will close on 31 July.

There are TWO calls: Discipline-focused and Thematic-focused.

The main webpage for the entire scheme is available here:

http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/seminar-series

Letizia Gramaglia : 24 Jun 2013 13:51 |  Tags: Pedagogical Research |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

HEA annual conference 2013 – Bookings now open

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This year the 9th Annual Conference of the Higher Education Academy is coming to the University of Warwick. Visit the HEA website to take a look at the programme and to register.

http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/annual-conference/sessions

Letizia Gramaglia : 05 Jun 2013 15:31 |  Tags: Pedagogical Research Teaching Excellence |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem