November 20, 2018

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Preparing for your EDRS: Teaching Development Goals

At this time of year, you are busy preparing for your EDRS (Employee Development and Review Scheme) conversation with your supervisor. You have the opportunity to take an active role in your own ongoing professional learning and development.

Graduate Learning Outcomes Workshops On-campus

Are you looking for ways to incorporate the Graduate Learning Outcomes into your teaching arsenal? On-campus workshops will be run over the next few weeks where you can get help with your own subjects from GLO advisors. See below for details.

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Implementing the CSU Values in your teaching.

Planning and setting goals for EDRS includes your Professional Learning and Teaching Development objectives. We are pleased to provide you with some resources that could help you:

• articulate your objectives
  
• plan how you may be able to achieve them
  
• provide evidence of achieving your goals
  

Some concrete online resources are available for your self-paced Professional Development, including teaching tips and strategies, leadership development resources delivered through videos, articles, transcripts, and presentation slides, and evidenced through certificates of completion.

The Learning Academy, Division of Learning and Teaching has purchased access to Magna Commons and 20-Minute Mentor Commons from Magna Publications.

We also now have access to The Teaching Professor and Academic Leader publications.

Get your access now! CSU Subscription to L&T and L&T Leadership Resources**

Full access details for staff with a CSU login** are being published daily in What’s New for the next few weeks.

Alternatively, contact:

Ellen McIntyre – emcintyre@csu.edu.au

Matthew Larnach – mlarnach@csu.edu.au

**These resources are only available to CSU staff and so subscription instructions cannot be published on publicly accessible publications such as Teaching Tuesdays@CSU.

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The Teaching Professor. Edited by respected scholar and author, Dr Maryellen Weimer, TheTeaching Professor keeps readers informed of pedagogically sound techniques, new ideas, strategies that work, and pragmatic approaches for enhancing student learning and improving instructional effectiveness, regardless of teaching modality or academic discipline.

The new The Teaching Professor, launched August 2018, reflects the changing needs of today’s college faculty and the students they teach. This new fully online version includes everything readers have loved about The Teaching Professor for so many years—great articles and practical, evidence-based insights—but it also contains many new features and formats that will make it an even more indispensable resource.

Each week readers can expect thought-provoking and actionable advice on a wealth of critical topics, including:

• Improving student learning
• Designing effective activities and assignments
• Energizing and re-inspiring yourself in mid-career
• Promoting academic integrity
• Responding to course evaluations and feedback
• Dealing with difficult students
• Getting students to read what’s assigned
• Integrating instructional technology
• Creating a climate for learning
  

In short, The Teaching Professor is better than ever and will quickly become your go-to resource for inspiration and advice on better teaching and learning, regardless of discipline or course format.

Here's an example from The Teaching Professor.

Five New Twists for Online Discussions

By: Kristin Kowal and Laurie Berry

Source: https://www.teachingprofessor.com/topics/online-learning/teaching-strategies-techniques/five-new-twists-for-online-discussions/

Introduction

QUOTE: Most online courses have what we call “traditional discussions,” which follow the read-write-post (and perhaps reply to a peer or two) pattern. Even if the discussion questions are interesting, both instructors and students can get tired of the same old routine. We recommend trying any of these five “twists” on traditional discussions in the next online course you teach. These activities encourage student engagement and critical thinking—and they might help you feel more connected to your students as well!

The “Twists”

1. Adding images of examples
   
2. External discussion and reflection
   
3. Debate
   
4. Role-play
   
5. Fishbowl

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Academic Leader provides the information deans, chairs, and other academic decision-makers use for effective leadership within their colleges or departments and fulfil their institution’s primary missions of teaching and scholarship.

Here's an example from Academic Leader.

Seven Big Ideas for Academic Leaders: How You Lead Matters!

By Dr Laurie Elish-Piper

Source: https://www.academic-leader.com/topics/leadership/seven-big-ideas-for-academic-leaders-how-you-lead-matters/

Big Idea 1: Optimism matters
Big Idea 2: Kindness and care matter
Big Idea 3: Communication matters
Big Idea 4: Intentionality matters
Big Idea 5: Relationships matter
Big Idea 6: Collaboration matters
Big Idea 7: Inspiration matters

Final thoughts

QUOTE: That’s quite a list, but as I’m reminded daily, being an academic leader is a huge responsibility. And I have one final big idea to share—remember to breathe, smile, and take care of yourself so you can get up tomorrow and do it again!

Laurie Elish-Piper, PhD, is dean, distinguished teaching professor, and presidential engagement professor in the College of Education at Northern Illinois University.

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Magna Commons offers on-demand versions of Magna's most popular Magna Online Seminars, covering a broad range of topics of interest to faculty & administrators.

We have many CSU subscribers to this ongoing subscription. These online seminars are generally 45 to 60 minutes long, with some extending to 90 minutes. Each presentation is accompanied by full transcripts, handouts of the presentation, supplementary materials and a certificate of completion.

Some of the most popular Teaching Tuesdays@CSU issues in 2018 have been derived from this resource.

Magna Commons recent offerings

For Teachers: Building Professionalism in Professional-track Students (44min)

For Leaders: Department Chairs: Trends and Issues Over Time (36 min)

The Role of the Strategic Plan in Building Faculty Development Programs (44 min)

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Mentor Commons offers on-demand versions of Magna's popular 20-Minute Mentor programs, covering a broad range of faculty development topics.

Here's an example from Mentor Commons.

How Can I Encourage the Growth Mindset in Students with Three Simple Tips?

Source: https://www.magnapubs.com/mentor-commons/?video=13945

By Dr Stephanie Delaney

This 20-minute video presentation discusses three advantages of encouraging a growth mindset in students:

• Students have greater engagement
  
• Student retention improves
  
• Increased student success
  

Provides three simple tips:

1. Introduce the growth mindset concept
   
2. Adjust assignment descriptions
   
3. Adjust the way you give feedback.
   

All this is accompanied by text resources, links to online resources and a certificate of completion.

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Remember our highly popular Monday Morning Mentor Summer Edition that ran for 8-weeks in June to August 2018. CSU staff who accessed these webinars enjoyed the topics and the format.

The good news: We have access to the 2019 Spring (16 weeks) and Fall (16 weeks) series that will run weekly over 32 weeks in March and September 2019. So, watch this space ...

The 2018 Fall series is coming to an end and we will have access to the final few editions for 2018. Each online seminar has the same format as 20-Minute Mentor with each topic available for one week only.

Access details will be published in What's New.

Alternatively, contact

Ellen McIntyre emcintyre@csu.edu.au

Matthew Larnach mlarnach@csu.edu.au

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Are you already teaching to Graduate Learning Outcomes?
The answer is probably YES!
If you support students to

• develop literacy skills,
• prepare them for professional life or
• expand their horizons to different cultures or a sustainable future,

then you are teaching GLOs. Congratulations!

Did you know the GLOs can now be included in your subject outline?
We'd like to help you...

• Choose the right few GLOs for your subject
• Assess your learning outcomes with clarity
• Come up with ideas for teaching the GLOs
• Offer you resources to make it easier

On campus workshops are being offered in Wagga Wagga, Albury and Bathurst in the next three weeks.

More details are available on this flyer:

Lifelong Success for CSU Students.

Contact: Bruce Stenlake

Phone: 02 693 32969
Email: bstenlake@csu.edu.au

To get a head start, why not look at these two recent 20-minute online workshops on Digital Literacy and Information and Research Literacy. There are some great CSU resources also attached to the presentations to get you thinking about GLOs in your subjects.

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Follow Teaching Tuesdays on Twitter.
Our Twitter feed includes links to further hints, tips and resources in the broader field of teaching in higher education.
https://twitter.com/TeachingTuesday

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Contents
1....Teaching support resources at CSU
2....CSU Professional Learning
3....Bonus CSU resource - Lynda.com
4....Magna Publications Subscriptions
5....Links to previous bulletins
6....Subscribe

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You have access to a range of quality CSU resources to help you incorporate educational resources and techniques into your teaching. Check out the following:

• Teaching at CSU - the Division of Learning and Teaching website with links to resources for Teaching Staff, Online Learning, Assessment, Curriculum, Indigenous Curriculum, Workplace Learning, Technologies, Feedback and Analytics, and Learning Spaces.
  
• Resources for Learning and Teaching Academic and Professional Staff - searchable CSU database
  
• Learning Technologies - the starting point for a range of learning design options
• CSU Learning Exchange: Technologies in Context - a searchable database to promote online learning and teaching strategies
• The CSU wiki - a faculty-based source of learning and teaching information and strategies

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All CSU students and staff members have access to Lynda.com,

an online subscription library that teaches the latest business,

creative and software skills through high-quality instructional videos.

Why not take a course at your own pace?

One example: An interesting course that you may find a useful resource for your students is Information Literacy. With videos averaging about 5-min in length that together deliver almost 2 hours of learning, "Librarian Elsa Loftis discusses different types of resources and explains how to evaluate their usefulness and trustworthiness".

Another course related to CSU Graduate Learning Outcomes is Digital Citizenship, short videos totalling 1 hr 31 min.

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All staff with a CSU email address have free access to our annual

CSU subscription to the

Magna Commons

Mentor Commons

The Teaching Professor and

Academic Leader.

Magna Commons and Mentor Commons video seminars also include the presentation handouts, full transcripts and supplementary resources are available for download if you don't have time to listen to the seminar.

The Teaching Professor and Academic Leader are focused text-based resources for teaching staff (TTP) and those in academic and adminstration leadership roles (AL).

How to subscribe

Staff with a CSU email address can obtain the CSU subscription codes from

Ellen McIntyre elmcintyre@csu.edu.au or

Matthew Larnach mlarnach@csu.edu.au

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Suggest topics that you would like for Teaching Tuesdays; or
Share your own teaching tips article.

Contact Ellen McIntyre elmcintyre@csu.edu.au to offer your suggestions.

Folder with all previous issues.

Issue 1 Group Work; Issue 2 Engagement; Issue 3 Engagement;

Issue 4 Academic Integrity; Issue 5 Feedback; Issue 6 Feedback;

Issue 7 Active Engagement; Issue 8 Building on Prior Learning;

Issue 9 Student Diversity; Issue 10 Learning Outcomes;

Issue 11 Deep Learning; Issue 12 The Teaching-Research Nexus;

Issue 13 Improving Student Learning; Issue 14 Planning for Effective Student Learning;
Issue 15 Feedback for Teaching; Issue 16 Gamification;
Issue 17 Activities for Effective Learning; Issue 18 Dialogic Feedback;

Issue 19 Student Evaluation; Issue 20 Enhancing Learning;
Issue 21 Rationale for Assessment; Issue 22 Motivating Learning; Issue 23 Peer Learning;
Issue 24 Improving Online Learning and Teaching; Issue 25 Teacher Presence;

Issue 26 Teaching Current Content; Issue 27 Online Learning Model;

Issue 28 Maximising Subject Experience Survey Response Rates; Issue 29 LEGO for Learning;

Issue 30 Intercultural Awareness for Learning; Issue 31 Reflective Teaching Practice;
Issue 32 Reflective Teaching for Learning; Issue 33 Teacher Presence Online;
Issue 34 Assessment Alternatives; Issue 35 Rubrics Demystified

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Dr Kogi Naidoo, FHERDSA and PFHEA, is Associate Professor and Director of the Learning Academy, Division of Learning and Teaching at Charles Sturt University, playing a strategic role contributing to and enhancing teaching, the curriculum and assessment practice, meeting both staff and student needs.

Email: knaidoo@csu.edu.au
Website: http://www.csu.edu.au/division/learning-and-teaching/about-us/learning-academy
Phone: +61 2 6933 4804

Teaching Tuesdays@CSU bulletins are edited by Ellen McIntyre
Lecturer, Academic Development in the Learning Academy at Charles Sturt University

Email: elmcintyre@csu.edu.au
Website: https://www.csu.edu.au/division/learning-and-teaching/about-us/learning-academy
Phone: +61 2 6933 4726
Twitter: @TeachingTuesday