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• Demonstrate knowledge and critique of the principles, relevant policies and techniques of teaching and learning in relation to your own practice and subject area
• Critically evaluate your own teaching and learning approaches and their impact on learners and how they learn
• Take responsibility for planning teaching and learning activities to encourage student engagement in learning and the achievement of specified learning outcomes for each session
• Take responsibility for evaluating your own performance based on feedback from a variety of sources (student, peer, laboratory supervisor) and demonstrate willingness to change approach to demonstrating in light of this feedback
• Demonstrate basic administrative competence.
• Understand the relationship between the design of a practical session and the learning outcomes associated with it.
Course is Graded as Pass, Honours or Fail
Student Effort Type | Hours |
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Lectures | 5 |
Small Group | 20 |
Practical | 15 |
Specified Learning Activities | 50 |
Autonomous Student Learning | 20 |
Total | 110 |
Participants must:
(a) Be, or about to be, registered for PhD/Masters in UCD
(b) Have, or about to have, an active teaching role within UCD
Those participants who started their post graduate studies in September will be expected to have attended demonstrator training and briefing sessions during the 1st semester.
Description | Timing | Component Scale | % of Final Grade | ||
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Portfolio: ‘Improving my performance’ a self relection and analysis of teaching style | Week 8 | n/a | Graded | No | 33 |
Portfolio: Planning (thinking about) my teaching sessions | Week 4 | n/a | Graded | No | 34 |
Presentation: Curriculum development, using the methodologies discussed in the course to improve teaching | Week 12 | n/a | Graded | No | 33 |
Remediation Type | Remediation Timing |
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Repeat | Within Two Trimesters |
• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
• Group/class feedback, post-assessment
Feedback is directly related to the Assessment
Name | Role |
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Dr Raymond Smith | Lecturer / Co-Lecturer |