Enhanced development courses

This course is intended for more experienced Teaching Assistants (tutors and demonstrators) who are embarking on lecturing for the first time. It considers what is involved in planning a lecture, and discusses strategies for engaging the students’ attention. Participants are offered the course ‘Lecture Practice’ by way of follow-up in the following week. Lecture Practice is a peer observation exercise (participants deliver a 20-min lecture to their colleagues that they prepare in advance) which is run in three groups of 5. It is therefore only available to 15 participants maximum.   

This course is for you if are about to get involved in preparing an occasional lecture for the first time, or if you are still relatively new to lecturing and intend to review your lecturing practice. If lecturing is not yet an immediate concern for you this semester, please do not sign up for this course yet.

This course is intended for more experienced Teaching Assistants (tutors and demonstrators) who are taking on course design responsibilities. It provides an overview of what is involved in turning subject content into a course for students, and discusses what might make for a well-designed course. It includes a look at different approaches to course design and discusses some institutional dimensions that have to be taken into account.

This course is for you if are about to get involved in preparing a new course for the first time, or if you are still relatively new to course design and intend to review your practice. If course design is not yet an immediate concern for you this semester, please do not sign up for this course yet.

The IAD offers workshops on every first Thursday of each month for experienced T&Ds who are working on an application to the HEA via the Direct Individual Recognition Route. The workshops take place monthly and the agenda of each session is open. The workshops are intended for discussion of work in progress and sharing of drafts. To find out what is required for acquiring accreditation via this route, you need to first participate in the T&Ds' workshop 'Recording Teaching & Routes to Accreditation' or the all staff workshop 'Practical Strategies for Acquiring HEA Accreditation' and/or consult the HEA website at: 

http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/professional-recognition

This participative workshop will introduce ways in which you can encourage and support your students to become more effective learners.  We will explore and share a range of learning strategies which can help break down barriers to success and get students to engage and reflect on their own learning processes. 

The aim is that you will leave inspired and equipped with a few practical ideas to adapt and try out with your students.

This course is intended for experienced Teaching Assistants (tutors and demonstrators) with significant teaching experience in Higher Education. It discusses the ways in which teaching experiences might be recorded for a range of purposes, and considers the options available at Edinburgh for seeking formal recognition of one’s teaching experiences, via internal routes and through a direct application to the Higher Education Academy (HEA).

If you are new or relatively new to teaching, do not sign up for this course yet.