Learn how to open academic skills ‘windows’ in your teaching at two new CPD workshops taking place on Tuesday 29 November and Wednesday 14 December run by the Centre for Higher Education Practice (CHEP), together with Steve White, who works to connect academics with the Academic Skills Hub.
Our students have diverse backgrounds and educational experiences. As a result, providing short opportunities or “windows” for students to practice degree-level academic skills before assignments is useful (Wingate, 2016).
Tuesday 29 November – Opening academic skills windows in your teaching: 3 short activities for essay writing
The short activities introduced during this session will help to develop your students’ argumentation and structuring skills for essay writing and provide you with frameworks for activities which you can repeatedly adapt and use, with minimal preparation, during your teaching.
Wednesday 14 December – Opening academic literacy windows in your teaching: 3 short activities for critical thinking
The activities in this session draw on theory-focused reading texts (e.g., extracts from journal articles/student essay writing), rather than technical data or processes.
Once students are familiar with them, these short tasks can be adapted, used as ‘warmer’ activities, introduced at relevant points in a session, or set as challenges for students to create themselves.
To book onto these sessions, please go to Staffbook and search ‘skills’. Please note that these workshops are each capped at 24 people.
