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Teaching Portfolio Workshop: autumn 2012

Dear Participants

I am pleased to inform you that the next Teaching Portfolio workshop will take place on 29^th and 30^th August 2012.  We look forward to welcoming you to the workshop.  In advance of that you may find the following information helpful.

The autumn workshop will introduce you to what a Teaching Portfolio is and what it contains.  It will explore the theoretical and practical background to Teaching Portfolios and, of course, will also focus on how to get started writing your own Portfolio. The workshop will comprise a combination of knowledge exchange, discussions, exercises, presentations and activities. The overall objective is to help you professionalise your university teaching and to make sure that you get the support and help you need both to integrate the Roskilde way of doing problem based learning and project work and to qualify for your lectureship at the end of the adjunct period.

Key elements of the workshop are:

·         Becoming a reflective practitioner (I strongly recommend you read Donald Schön’s book ‘The Reflective practitioner’)

·         Structuring your experiences and hopes for future teaching

·         Organising and planning your qualification period (adjunct supervision, participating in courses;

·         Formulating an agenda and plan for reaching pedagogical teaching and learning goals),

·         Getting a grip on learning theories and teaching techniques.

All of you have teaching experience already – some more than others – and at the workshop we will use your existing experiences as a way into discussing practices, methodologies, learning theories and goals for the future. It’s all about building knowledge, insight and confidence. To do that we will explore not just the positive and more effective teaching experiences but the less positive and more challenging as well.  To help you in this process I’d like you to prepare in advance of the first workshop session on Wednesday the 29^th a few answers and thoughts to the following questions: 

1: Who was the best teacher you ever had? (at any level – pre-school to Ph.D.)

Why was s/he so effective?

2: Who was the worst teacher you ever had?

Why was s/he so bad?

3: What is the best teaching experience you ever had?

Why was it so positive?

4: What is the worst teaching experience you ever had?

Why was it so bad?

5: What do you think you know about learning theories and university pedagogics?

How did you learn this?

To help you in your thinking I have attached an article: Teaching smart people how to learn – which I think you may find interesting.  Please take the time ahead of the workshop to read this.  In addition, I have created a Blog for us, which you will find at: http://teachingportfolioatroskilde2012autumn.blogspot.dk/

Finally, a gentle reminder that full attendance at the workshop is required to pass the course so please plan ahead with this mind.  During the workshop refreshments will be available and sandwiches and snacks will be served for lunch both days – so do not worry about food. If you have any food allergies please let Inge Stenholt,our perfect secretary, know as soon as possible.  Inge can be emailed at: Inge Stenholt Stenholt@ruc.dk 

So, in summary, I look forward to welcoming you to the workshop, to working with you and to reading your portfolios in the future!

Best wishes

Sussi

Sussi Louise Zimmermann

UniPæd

Institut for Psykologi og Uddannelsesstudier

PAES

Post box 260

Universitetsvej 1

4000 Roskilde

+45 4674 2997

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