Centre for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning

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Programmes offered at the Centre for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning provide staff and students with background knowledge and the practical skills to work in an academic environment. An essential part of these programmes is self-reflection, which ensures that as participants develop their teaching abilities they continue to reflect on their work and the students’ needs via formal and informal evaluation. In these programmes a series of meetings throughout the semester provides participants with the opportunity to discuss and reflect on their teaching strategies.

Distinguished Visitors

Photo of John Ackers Emeritus Professor John Ackers is a very distinguished academic from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) at the University of London. He has been involved in teaching and learning for 27 years, primarily postgraduate coursework teaching in infectious diseases. Until his retirement at the end of 2006 Professor Ackers was Professor of Postgraduate Education in Public Health, Coordinator of the Distance Learning programme at the LSHTM for 2000 and 2001 and Deputy Chair of the University of London’s External System Academic Board. He was involved in the initiation of Distance Learning and developed the Distance Learning Programme from a low base in 2000 to a peak of 1900 students in 120 countries during his tenure as Coordinator. He has been an external assessor in reviews of the teaching programmes of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and the Imperial College Faculty of Medicine and has reviewed a new Distance Learning course for the Royal Veterinary College in London. He continues as an active postgraduate teacher.

Professor John Ackers

All-of-year teaching for Masters programmes

Providing a supportive learning environment for international students

The use of distance learning in the delivery of postgraduate coursework programmes

Teaching & Learning

A broad range of workshops focusing on teaching and learning are available at the Centre for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning.

Small class teaching workshops covering Problem Based Learning, laboratories and tutorials are available for tutors from specific disciplines.

Workshops are available for unit co-ordinators that address teaching and learning issues such as inclusivity, student assessment and how to build a quality teaching team.

Teaching and learning orientation workshops aimed at new academic staff members are also run each semester.

Teaching and Learning

An Institutional Approach to Academic Integrity - The Canadian Context

An Introduction to Problem Based Learning

Assessment: Learning's destination or journey?

Bridging the gap: Translating information skills into practice

Building a Teaching Portfolio

Curriculum Development

Don’t just sit there! Active learning in higher education

eLearning

Foundations of Teaching and Learning

Group work in Problem Based Learning

Managing Academic Conduct @ UWA

Peer Reflection

Preparing a grant proposal for the Carrick Institute

Seminars and Tutorials

So you think you are a good teacher? Prove it!

Student Learning Outcomes: Where to from Here?

Supervising International Students

Supervising Postgraduate Students

Teaching and Learning Orientation

Teaching and Learning programmes for postgraduate students, also see "Development Opportunities"

Team Teaching

eLearning Development and Support

CATL supports staff who use a variety of information communication technologies (ICT) and other flexible teaching strategies. Workshops and training sessions are typically customised to address local needs and focus. We also provide one-on-one training sessions and support.

To find out more about eLearning training and support, please contact the eLearning Development and Support team staff-support@webct.uwa.edu.au.

eLearning Development and Support

Evaluation of Teaching

CATL provides support for academic staff on a range of teaching evaluation issues including feedback on research supervision and teaching from students and peers. CATL also provides assistance to staff wishing to development their academic and teaching portfolios and provides a range for workshops and information sessions on the evaluation of teaching.

Evaluation of Teaching

DVTF - Peer Review of Teaching: Lessons from Peer Reviewing Health Professions Faculty

SPOT Information for Administrative Secretaries

Teaching Awards

Making the most of the SPOT process

Other Development Opportunities

In addition to teaching and learning workshops the centre for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning provides other professional development opportunities for staff and postgraduate students. Essential to the dissemination of teaching initiatives and their evaluation is the communication of this information at conferences and in peer reviewed publications. Workshops for staff and students on maximising the impact of conference presentations and writing reader-friendly journal articles are also available at CATL.

Development Opportunities

Postgraduate Teaching Internship Scheme

Introduction to University Teaching

How to Succeed as an Academic in the Global Research Community

The PhD supervision process at Cranfield University in the UK

Communicating Your Science to the Public

Papercraft: Publishing in Peer-Reviewed Scientific Journals

Making the Most of Your Conference Poster

Programmes & Workshops

Distinguished Visitors

Teaching & Learning

eLearning Development and Support

Evaluation of Teaching

Other Development Opportunities