Activity 1 evidence on a sticky note Take a quick moment to write - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

 Take a quick moment to write down the most innovative piece of evidence you might have NOW, to support a claim for effective teaching.  Present the evidence to the person next to you  Stick examples on the butchers paper at your tables

 Sticky note posters will be stuck up on a wall in the venue for you to review later.

Activity 1 – evidence on a sticky note

 Evidence takes planning :

 keep your evidence cap on at all times.

 Why am I collecting evidence?

 Summative, formative

 For reviewing my practice in order to improve my teaching; To check if my teaching is effective ; to help set goals for performance development; for promotion, quality assurance, an award application

An evidence plan

The ‘evidence grid’

Adapted from Nicoll. C & Smith, C. (2000) ‘Sources of Evidence on Quality Teaching’

ALTC Awards An ‘evidence quadrant’ as a framing tool: thinking about evidence that is qualitative and quantitative across each of the four areas.

Use multiple sources to substantiate a claim, or to reach a deeper understanding.

Peers Self Student Feedback Student Learning

Prompt questions:

• What could he use to evaluate student learning? In particular, how could he measure

attainment of the graduate attributes he is seeking to cultivate through the learning activity?

• What can he do to have his teaching approach recognised and rewarded by his peers?
• How can he find out what the students thought of the learning activity and how it

may have influenced their learning?

• What forms of observation can he use to assess what the students are learning

throughout the semester?

• How can he share his pedagogy with his peers and make other contributions to

scholarship in the area?

• What formal means of evidence are available to him about the impact of his teaching

in university learning and teaching quality assurance systems?

• Is there a faculty grant he can apply for to help pay for an external assess/evaluator
• f the program?

Activity 2 –exemplar prompt questions