What makes a good teaching session?

Jayne Jefferies - NICE

Learning objectives

At the end of this session you should be able to:

• Create a plan to structure your

teaching/session

• Use a framework to formulate objectives

• Produce clear slides for teaching

• Deliver your materials with confidence

What makes a good teacher…

• Patience

• Knowledge

• Empathy with students

• Explain difficult concepts clearly

• Confidence

• Adaptable

• Good communication

• Enthusiastic

• Understanding

• Approachable

• Engaging

...related to how you prefer to learn

• Learning styles–Some people prefer to:

• Listen• Do• Write lots of notes• Work in groups• Work on their own

• Lots of different ways of categorising

V visualA auditoryR read/writeK kinesthetic

http://www.vark-learn.com/english/page.asp?p=questionnaire

Why is knowing your learning style important?

• Comfort zones!• Need to make an effort to include

activities that engage students with all learning styles– Visual– Auditory– Read/write– kinesthetic

Creating a structure

Plan your teaching:

Beginning - set the scene

Setting learning outcomes

SMART

Setting learning outcomes

SMART

Specificmeasurable achievablerealisticwithin a timescale

Learning outcomes

By the end of the session you will be able to:

• search and browse NICE Evidence Search effectively

• identify some of the more useful filters to refine your search results

• manage your search results for future use

Middle – the body of the session

•Less is more

•Relate to your learners

•Vary activities every 10 minutes

•Assess learning

End - closure

•Summarise–use a learner–use learning outcomes

•Positive feedback•Questions

Use your own experiences

• Plan ahead• How do you think your peers can benefit

from using Evidence Search?• Have you had any previous experience

of doing presentations or teaching small groups?

• How do you prefer to learn or be taught? • What do you think is the most important

quality a teacher should have?

Slides

• Keep it simple• Use images• Consider your use of colour• Use sans serif font (not Times

New Roman)• Font size and layout• Death by bullet-point….

• (7 points, 7 words)

Handouts

• Timing

• Slideset

• Further reading

Flipcharts

• Capture students’ thoughts

• Write in logical order• Make sure the font is legible

• Less is more again!

Learning objectives

At the end of this session you should be able to:

• Create a plan to structure your

teaching/session

• Use a framework to formulate objectives

• Produce clear slides for teaching

• Deliver your materials with confidence

Planning your session• Promoting your session

o Noticeboards/posterso Catchy titles: “I wish I knew about NICE

Evidence Search sooner”o Lecture “shout-outs”• Get people to sign upo Google groupso Doodle schedulingo Facebook eventso Pre-arranged timetabled tutorials

• Structure• Beginning, middle and end