Category: Teaching Practice

Discussions around teaching practice.

Student walking on a path - Photo by Mike Catabay for Learning Innovation Hub

We Were All First Years Once

"The transition from school to the real world is a big one, and there are things that I now take for granted that were so foreign to me in the early days."

/ 24 August, 2017

How Well Do You Know Your International Students?

If Macquarie Learning & Teaching staff increase their awareness of the experience of international students, and know where to find support, as a community we can foster a positive learning environment for over 20% of our cohort.

/ 24 August, 2017
Student working at desk

Ten Easy Ways to put Research And Inquiry Into Units – FAQs

Over the last ten weeks Emeritus Professor Angela Brew presented ten simple suggestions to help you change your units or parts of your units to develop students’ research skills and competencies that you can adapt to suit your particular context. Here is...

/ 10 August, 2017
Student working at desk

Ten Easy Ways to put Research And Inquiry Into Units (10/10)

This series of posts presents ten simple suggestions to help you change your units or parts of your units to develop students’ research skills and competencies that you can adapt to suit your particular context.

/ 3 August, 2017
Student working at desk

Ten Easy Ways To Put Research And Inquiry Into Units (9/10)

This series of posts presents ten simple suggestions to help you change your units or parts of your units to develop students’ research skills and competencies that you can adapt to suit your particular context.

/ 27 July, 2017
Student working at desk

Ten Easy Ways To Put Research And Inquiry Into Units (8/10)

This series of posts presents ten simple suggestions to help you change your units or parts of your units to develop students’ research skills and competencies that you can adapt to suit your particular context.

/ 20 July, 2017

Ideas From HERDSA2017

This year’s theme was “Curriculum Transformation” with presentations organised around practical implications, drivers and facilitators in curriculum transformation. Here is what I learned based on selected presentations I attended.

/ 13 July, 2017
Student working at desk

Ten Easy Ways To Put Research And Inquiry Into Units (6/10)

This series of posts presents ten simple suggestions to help you change your units or parts of your units to develop students’ research skills and competencies that you can adapt to suit your particular context.

/ 6 July, 2017
Y Gen Z are Next title from Vivid Ideas Sydney 2017

How Do You Engage Your Gen Z Students?

Gen Z, those born in the mid 90s to early 2000s, are likely to make up a large proportion of your current and upcoming cohorts. How can you gain and keep their attention?

/ 29 June, 2017