Learning & Teaching Practice
About Learning & Teaching Practice
We have established a college-wide approach to learning, teaching and assessment based on the ABC Learning Design Model, to drive more appropriate learning through supported technology.
Our staff are active in promoting and celebrating lecturers’ best-practice through vibrant learning, teaching and assessment communities across the College and the wider sector.
On this page you will find several sections which guide you through the most up to date teaching practices and approaches used within the college. The focus of classroom practice needs to centre around learning design which incorporates active, blended and connected learning.
Student Academic Experience Strategy Themes
The Student Academic Experience Strategy encompasses three broad sections:
City Student, which focuses on the student themselves, their readiness to attend college and is how a student learns much more through active, blended learning and the city attributes that they can develop.
City Learning and Teaching, where lecturers are encouraged to design learning around active learning practices, blended format and be connected through an opportunity to work collaboratively.
City Student Journey, though the access to support that the student will need through their academic career.
The ABC approach enables academic teams to create a plan where the sequencing of different active task types can be structured in a way which allows for synchronous and asynchronous learning which will be more engaging to students and also allow the tasks to meet the unit and course aims.
The overall focus of the approach is to allow the student to participate in their own learning, use digital technologies to enhance learning and work collaboratively with their peers.
Although this approach has a core purpose, it’s extremely flexible and can be adapted to meet the needs of each curriculum team.
This is an educational methodology which blends online and digital components with a face-to-face instruction using a variety of methods in order to meet the departmental context. It does not mean solely online learning yet instead combines classroom learning and independent study with online learning, in which students can control the time, pace, and place of their learning.
Active learning methods ask the student to engage in their learning by thinking, discussing, investigating, and creating. In class, students practice skills, solve problems, struggle with complex questions, make decisions and explain ideas in their own words through writing and discussion.
Active learning tasks put a greater responsibility on the student to plan, execute and evaluate their own learning alongside the guidance and support of the lecturer.
The broad term involving the actions and strategies we implement as lecturers through development and the constant desire to improve our learning environments to better suit the needs of our ever-evolving learners.
Find up-to-date professional knowledge of activities, techniques and tips for teaching in class and to better support the learning of our students.
Allows learners to demonstrate their progress, what they have learned, and lets learners know how they are progressing.
Effective assessment and feedback provides the lecturer with evidence about current knowledge and skills development.
Feedback should be constructive, honest, supportive and useful for subsequent learning goals.
Find up-to-date professional knowledge of activities, techniques and tips for teaching online and face-to-face.
