Teaching practice

This page provides resources to help educators enhance their teaching practices. You'll find information on effective learning activities that engage students, strategies for providing meaningful feedback, guidance on developing key professional skills and attributes, and resources to promote inclusive and equitable teaching approaches.

Interactive learning

Feedback

Professional skills and attributes

Inclusive teaching practices

Interactive learning

Interactive learning gives the students an opportunity to explore ideas, gauge their progress, apply knowledge, engage with peers, consolidate knowledge, and show they can successfully achieve the outcomes when formally assessed. By thinking deeper about how the students can engage with the content we can provide enriching activities that turn content transfer into meaningful learning.

WORKSHOP: Designing learning activities

Creating engaging learning activities and adapting them to different modes of teaching.

With a lens of continual quality improvement, it’s important for all educators to regularly evaluate and revise their learning activities, particularly when there is a change in delivery format. Fundamentally, creating student-centred learning activities that are constructively aligned to learning outcomes allows students to engage in the unit content by discussing, reflecting, problem-solving, brainstorming, role-playing, debating, and critiquing. In this workshop you will adapt and redevelop constructively aligned learning activities for a variety of learning modes: on campus, synchronously via Zoom and asynchronously through Moodle, as well as hybrid delivery.

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SEMINAR: H5P: Easy interactivity in Moodle

Michelle Jacobs || 6th November, 2024

This seminar is designed to introduce you to the exciting world of H5P. H5P is a powerful tool that enables you to create engaging and interactive learning experiences with ease. Join the amazing Michelle Jacobs, Educational Designer in the School of Nursing and Midwifery to learn the basics of H5P, explore its diverse range of content types, and be shown how easy it is to build interactive elements that can enhance your Moodle site.

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Active learning cards

These active learning cards will give you some active learning ideas and examples.

Scaffolding content and activities

This questioning framework helps educators create a structured and interactive learning environment.

Feedback

"Feedback is a process in which learners make sense of information about their performance and use it to enhance the quality of their work or learning strategies." - Feedback for Learning. While this definition speaks to student feedback for learning, it's also important to consider both giving and reviewing student feedback in order to improve the clarity of unit and assessment information.

WORKSHOP: Giving effective feedback

Improving feedback practices for summative assessment tasks.

Feedback plays a critical role in student development and the achievement of learning outcomes. In particular, students tend to immerse themselves primarily in feedback received through summative assessments. Giving assessment feedback provides an opportunity for educators to engage in meaningful dialogue with students, provide an assessment of student performance and offer guidance for future learning. This workshop will focus of the practice of giving valuable, efficient and effective feedback on summative assessments and integrating a purposeful feedback cycle into your assessment regime.

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SEMINAR: Integrating student feedback

Scott Clarke and Dana Bui || 2nd August, 2023

Join Scott and Dana in this seminar as they discuss strategies for eliciting, processing, and integrating student feedback to help improve your teaching. They outline different types and methods of feedback collection, discuss ways in which you can analyse and action that feedback, and apply it in a way that indicates to the students that they have been heard.

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SEMINAR: Evaluating student teamwork using FeedbackFruits

Catherine Fraser and Jessica Biesiekieski || 22nd November, 2023

Effectively working as a member of a team is a valuable skill all students need to develop before they enter the workplace. Incorporating teamwork into our learning and teaching practices can provide valuable experiences for students to develop these teamwork skills. As educators, it can be difficult to gain insight into a team's dynamic, and to assess student’s ability to work in a team. FeedbackFruits is a Moodle-embeddable platform which allows students to evaluate peer contributions to teamwork; making visible this learning process.

In this seminar, Catherine Fraser from FeedbackFruits will provide an overview of the platform and what can be achieved by using Feedback Fruits in your teaching. We will also hear from Dr. Jessica Biesiekierski from the Department of Nutrition and Dietetics and Food, who will discuss her experiences in using FeedbackFruits in her teaching.

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Is this actionable feedback?

This tipsheet will give you three criteria for determining whether to action student feedback

Professional skills and attributes

Graduate attributes define the core qualities, knowledge, and capabilities that Monash aims to develop in our students. These attributes go beyond just a set of skills and instead describe the defining characteristics of the courses and the transferable skills students should gain. This provides a framework for designing curriculum, assessments, and teaching practices to achieve these desired learning outcomes in students.

SEMINAR: Evaluating student teamwork using FeedbackFruits

Catherine Fraser and Jessica Biesiekieski || 22nd November, 2023

Effectively working as a member of a team is a valuable skill all students need to develop before they enter the workplace. Incorporating teamwork into our learning and teaching practices can provide valuable experiences for students to develop these teamwork skills. As educators, it can be difficult to gain insight into a team's dynamic, and to assess student’s ability to work in a team. FeedbackFruits is a Moodle-embeddable platform which allows students to evaluate peer contributions to teamwork; making visible this learning process.

In this seminar, Catherine Fraser from FeedbackFruits will provide an overview of the platform and what can be achieved by using Feedback Fruits in your teaching. We will also hear from Dr. Jessica Biesiekierski from the Department of Nutrition and Dietetics and Food, who will discuss her experiences in using FeedbackFruits in her teaching.

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Group work toolkit

This toolkit will give you tools and strategies for scaffolding group assessment tasks.

Team contract for group assessment tasks

This tipsheet will give you some questions to use with students to scaffold group assessment tasks.

Questions to guide self assessment

These guidelines offer advice for students on how to conduct themselves in the online space.

Guidelines for professional online communication

These guidelines offer advice for students on how to conduct themselves in the online space.

Critical reflection and metacognition

This tipsheet will help you to support student skills in critical reflection and metacognition.

Inclusive teaching practices

Inclusive teaching practices aim to create a supportive learning environment for all students. This practice holds significance as it ensures equitable educational opportunities, promotes diversity, equity and inclusion and enhances overall student engagement and success. Students come to Monash with a diverse range of experiences and backgrounds, not unlike our future clients, patients, colleagues and peers.

SEMINAR: Towards inclusive learning: From small changes to reflexivity

Dana Bui || 25th September, 2024

This seminar will begin with small, manageable changes you can implement within your units to improve the sense of inclusion and belonging for your students. We will discuss strategies that gradually become more workload-intensive but go a long way towards creating inclusive learning environments. This session is not about the ‘why’ it is about the ‘how’. What can we do at a unit level to help the students feel more included, and how can we create space for our students to be their unique and authentic selves?

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SEMINAR: Supporting mental health in unit design

Dana Bui || 23rd August, 2023

We tend to think of supporting students by observing their behaviour, but in fact, the most impactful place to look for supporting the mental health of our students is actually in the proactive and considered design of learning and assessment tasks, information and activities with which our students engage. In this seminar, Dana will discuss strategies to develop your unit a in way that eases the workload pressures on your students, provides early feedback and normalises help-seeking behaviours.

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Equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) training opportunities at Monash

This tipsheet lists current EDI training opportunities provided by Monash University.

Inclusive imagery

This tipsheet lists stock photography sites that are more representative of humanity's natural diversity.