Getting ready for workshop in Coventry!

The final adjustments for the workshop are now under development, and the program can be published soon. The themes for this workshop are: 

• continuing education for staff - inclusivity, peer tutoring
• group work - inclusivity, diversity of learners
• curriculum development, teacher identity
• leveling and assessment - values and pedagogy
• peer tutoring - inclusive staff, academic advisors

The questions that TAMK and Tampere University participants are interested are:

Continuing education for staff –  inclusivity, peer tutoring

1.   How to get staff motivated in developing their (pedagogical) competence and their own work? Are people ready to change their work and working methods, and how to support the motivation for change?

2.   How does the university support implementing new working methods and creating new teaching cultures (for example salary, technical systems or arrangements etc.)?

3.   Is there an obligatory pedagogical course or studies in Coventry University that new university teachers should participate and if there is, what does this contain and how is it organized? (organized by Coventry University)

4.    University teachers’ pedagogical competence: does Coventry University require pedagogical studies from the university teachers?

Group work – inclusivity, diversity of learners

5.    What kind of operations and practices has Coventry University created to be able to operate in such a multicultural and inclusive environment, including both students and staff?

Curriculum development (and continuing education), teacher identity

6.    How does the curriculum define the work of university teachers?

7.    Describe the background and implementing the process of curriculum work in Coventry University in general?

8.    How do you define participatory pedagogy and does Coventry University support this (and if it does, in what ways)?

Leveling and assessment – values and pedagogy

9.    coming up later...

Peer tutoring – inclusive staff, academic advisors

10.  What kind of peer tutoring practices and models for teachers do you have in Coventry University?

 

Happy New Year 2014!

Happy New Year to all DIP -project's partners and actives! Last year was made of interesting and inspiring things. Luckily we had a chance to have a little break during Christmas time and New Year, and now the project team and partners are ready to continue the work with inclusivity and participatory pedagogy.

The project team and project participants from Tampere University of Applied Sciences and Tampere University are now preparing for the next benchmarking workshop in Coventry University. The workshop will take place 28th - 30th January. The themes for this workshop will be 1) Continuing (pedagogical) education for university staff - inclusivity, peer tutoring 2) Group work - inclusivity, diversity of learners 3) Curriculum development, teacher identity 4) Leveling and assessment - values and pedagogy 5) Peer tutoring - inclusive staff, academic advisors. During the next few weeks the themes will be specified and some information exchange will be made between the Finnish and British participants. It now seems, that this will be the last benchmarking workshop in DIP-project: the rest of the project time - which by the way might be until the end of this year - will be spent in terms of promoting the rooting of the results and practices created in the project.