Developing Your Teaching: Towards Excellence

219 Pages·2019·1.606 MB·English

by  Peter Kahn, Lorraine Anderson

Developing Your
Teaching
Packed with advice, vignettes and case studies, as well as useful tips and
checklists for improving teaching, the second edition of Developing Your
Teaching is the ideal toolkit to support the development of teaching practice.
Providing a blend of ideas, interactive review points and case study examples
from university teachers, this accessible handbook for professional practice
provides ideas on a range of topics including:
 learning from student feedback and peer review
 students as consumers and their expectations
 building effective partnerships with students and colleagues
 developing a teaching portfolio
 choosing effective teaching practices
 the challenges and benefits of securing an initial teacher qualification
A must-read for all those new to teaching in higher education, as well as
more experienced lecturers looking to refresh and advance the quality of their
teaching, this fully updated new edition is the ideal toolkit to support the
development of teaching practice.
Peter Kahn is the Director of the Centre for Higher Education Studies at the
University of Liverpool, UK.
Lorraine Anderson is an Assistant Director of Student Services and Head of
the Academic Skills Centre at the University of Dundee, UK.
Key Guides for Effective Teaching in
Higher Education Series
Edited by Kate Exley
This indispensable series is aimed at new lecturers, postgraduate students who
have teaching time, Graduate Teaching Assistants, part-time tutors and dem-
onstrators, as well as experienced teaching staff who may feel it’s time to
review their skills in teaching and learning.
Titles in this series will provide the teacher in higher education with practi-
cal, realistic guidance on the various different aspects of their teaching role,
which is underpinned not only by current research in the field, but also by the
extensive experience of individual authors, and with a keen eye kept on the lim-
itations and opportunities therein. By bridging a gap between academic theory
and practice, all titles will provide generic guidance on teaching, learning and
assessment issues, which is then brought to life through the use of short, illus-
trative examples drawn from a range of disciplines. All titles in the series will:
 represent up-to-date thinking and incorporate the use of computing and
information technology (C&IT) where appropriate
 consider methods and approaches for teaching and learning when there
is an increasing diversity in learning and a growth in student numbers
 encourage reflexive practice and self-evaluation, and a means of develop-
ing the skills of teaching, learning and assessment
 provide links and references to other work on the topic and research
evidence where appropriate.
Titles in the series will prove invaluable whether they are used for self-study
or as part of a formal induction programme on teaching in higher education
(HE), and will also be of relevance to teaching staff working in further edu-
cation (FE) settings.
Other titles in this series:
Leading Learning and Teaching in Higher Education: The Key Guide to
Designing and Delivering Courses
– Doug Parkin
Using Technology to Support Learning and Teaching
– Andy Fisher, Kate Exley, Dragos Ciobanu
Giving a Lecture: From Presenting to Teaching
– Kate Exley and Reg Dennick
Inclusion and Diversity: Meeting the Needs of all Students
– Sue Grace and Phil Gravestock
Developing
Your Teaching
Towards Excellence
Second Edition
Peter Kahn
and
Lorraine Anderson
Second edition published 2019
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First edition published by Routledge 2006
British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Kahn, Peter (Peter E.), author.
Title: Developing your teaching : towards excellence / Peter Kahn and Lorraine
Anderson.
Other titles: Effective teaching in higher education.
Description: Second edition. | New York : Routledge, 2019. | Series: Key guides
for effective teaching in higher education series | “First edition published by
Routledge 2006”—T.p. verso. | Includes index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018050596 | ISBN 9781138591189 (Hardback) |
ISBN 9781138591196 (Paperback) | ISBN 9780429490583 (EBook)
Subjects: LCSH: College teaching. | Learning.
Classification: LCC LB2331 .K245 2019 | DDC 378.1/25—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018050596
ISBN: 978–1-138–59118–9 (hbk)
ISBN: 978–1-138–59119–6 (pbk)
ISBN: 978–0-429–49058–3 (ebk)
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Contents
List of figures and tables viii
List of case studies ix
Acknowledgements xi
Series editor introduction xiii
1 Introduction: The teaching landscape 1
Introduction 1
The discipline of noticing 5
Flying the flag 7
Realising excellence – concept and practice 7
Conclusions 8
2 Choosing effective teaching practices 10
Introduction 10
Evidence from experience 10
Drawing ideas from others 17
The written word 20
Gaining from research 20
Conclusion: Beyond what is rational 23
3 The discipline as a locus for enhancement 27
Introduction 27
Connecting with your subject 27
Disciplines as spaces for dialogue 34
Disciplines that evolve 38
Conclusions 42
4 A partnership with students in learning and teaching 45
Introduction 45
Students as co-creators 46
Students as teachers 57
v
ConTEnTS
Opportunities and challenges 60
Conclusions 63
5 Engaging with reflective practice 66
Introduction 66
Identifying reflective practice 66
Developing your teaching through reflective practice 70
Conclusions 81
6 Shifting collective practice 85
Introduction 85
Foci for collective practice 86
The centrality of relationships 89
Seeing it through 93
Conclusions 98
7 Connecting to drivers 100
Introduction 100
Working with drivers 101
Identifying drivers for positive change 113
Conclusions 114
8 Researching your own practice 116
Introduction: Making a difference 116
Making a start with evaluation 118
And then moving into research 121
Socialising your research 126
Conclusions 128
9 Taking a lead in teaching 131
Introduction 131
Securing a role 132
Taking on leadership 135
Conclusions 144
10 Understanding teaching excellence 146
Introduction 146
Exploring teaching excellence 147
A lens on teaching excellence 155
Deliberate Practice – an accessible route to excellence? 155
Aspiring to excellence in teaching and learning 158
Conclusions 163
11 Career-wide enhancement 166
Introduction 166
Taking an enhancement-led approach to career-wide learning 167
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ConTEnTS
Taking advantage of opportunities and going wide 175
Conclusions 180
12 Conclusion: A sense of direction 185
Introduction 185
Developing your teaching: An ongoing story 186
The road goes ever on and on 191
Glossary 193
Index 199
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Figures and Tables
FIGURES
1.1 Models of teacher professional development 5
4.1 Student partnership journey in learning and teaching 46
4.2 Ladder of student participation in curriculum design 54
5.1 Aspects of reflective learning 68
6.1 A review of your professional networks 91
7.1 Drivers that impact practice 102
9.1 The Johari Window 133
10.1 How do I know? 150
10.2 Triangulation of perspectives on developing excellence
through Teaching and Learning Fellowships 161
TABLES
1.1 Action planning reflective framework 6
2.1 Possible reasons for adopting a teaching practice 11
2.2 Introductory literature on learning and teaching 21
3.1 Conceptions of teaching 31
4.1 A planned approach to partnership working 61
4.2 HEA framework for student engagement
through partnerships 64
7.1 High impact practices 101
10.1 Models of skills acquisition in the development of excellence 148
11.1 Examples of frameworks to support practice development 174
11.2 Your CPD Planner 182
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Case Studies
2.1 no such thing as a ‘Magic Weekend’ 15
2.2 A real eye opener 17
2.3 Team teaching 18
2.4 Securing a teaching qualification 24
3.1 Blah blah blah 28
3.2 Making case study teaching really sing 32
3.3 Knowledge construction in outdoor Education 36
3.4 Making a difference with Psychology 39
3.5 In praise of an Art School education or the impact of
drawing out and leading forth 41
4.1 Leveraging student capital 47
4.2 Adding value through student learning about teaching 51
4.3 SMASH: Social Media for Academic Studies at Hallam 52
4.4 Student Active Engagement in Learning – the SAEL project 55
4.5 And Juno came too 58
4.6 A planned approach 61
5.1 This isn’t working . . . 68
5.2 The learning cycle 71
5.3 Getting the message across 74
5.4 Learning through lenses 77
5.5 ‘Can I observe your teaching?’ 79
5.6 Don’t lose the learning 82
6.1 Developing the specialist team 87
6.2 See the world as others see it 92
6.3 Engaging colleagues in a development 95
6.4 Engaging the entire work community 97
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