Teaching for quality student learning

Abstract

How can we get the best out of our students? How can we balance content coverage and learning how to learn? How might assessment be a friend rather than a foe? How can we productively link research and teaching? How might we tackle contextual constraints? This presentation seeks to address some of these issues by exploring good teaching, learning and assessment. David will draw on a number of sources: ethnographically-oriented research into practices of winners of teaching awards; a research programme on learning-oriented assessment; and critical reflections on his own experiences in integrating research and teaching. He will conclude with some thoughts on how quality student learning might be facilitated through reducing dissonances between teachers and students. This could involve a judicious combination of teacher inquiry-based methods; trust and relationship-building; students as partners; and students as researchers.