tutor professional development
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Tutor Professional Development: Preparing sessional teachers to facilitate students’ graduate skills development. Presentation to the Graduate Psychology Skills Australia Conference Feb 6-7, 2014TRANSCRIPT
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TUTOR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
SUSIE MACFARLANE
MICHELLE AVERYFACULTY OF HEALTH, DEAKIN UNIVERSITY
Preparing sessional teachers to facilitate students’ graduate skills development
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Learning 1.0 Learning 2.0 Learning 3.0
Learning Process
Memorize accepted truth
Critique and construct
knowledge
Negotiate meaning
Information
processing
Find information Filter and evaluate
information
Collaborate and share in groups and
networks
Skills Learning a body of knowledge
Engage and collaborate Form communities
Learning process
Read/watch packaged content
Discuss and share Create resources and knowledge
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Learning Principles
• Constructive Alignment (Biggs & Tang, 2006)
• Learner-centred (Piaget, Vygotsky)
• Collaborative experiential learning (Hattie, 2009)
• Feedback (Nicol, 2009, Hattie, 2009)
• Reflection, Self and Peer Evaluation (Boud, 2009)
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Tutor workshop methods
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Tutor PD Program Learning Outcomes
Tutors participating in this workshop will be able to:
1. Facilitate effective small group problem based learning
2. Provide effective feedback
3. Understand PBL and student centred learning and the rationale for these forms of learning
4. Understand the rationale for and process of self and peer-assessment
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Tutor Professional development program components
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Tutor workshop focus group
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Critical success factors
Review and continuous improvement
Relevant - Adapt workshop to context and content- Presence of Unit chair
Sustained- Provide ongoing discussion and support
Create safe and effective learning space- Recognise diversity: teaching is personal- Emphasize learning not performance
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Further considerations
GPS projectTutors’ retention of information and skill progression
SectorHow do we support the professional development of our sessional teaching workforce?
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Thank you
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