Description
This unit is designed to support the initial professional development of newly appointed college lecturers and other college staff involved in learning, teaching, and assessingstudents. It will help you develop the ability to plan and successfully deliver learning, teaching and assessment taking account of identified needs and to evaluate your practice.
Audience/Level
New in post college lecturers and or other college staff involved in learning, teaching and assessing students with no prior teaching experience or qualifications/ Beginner
Duration
15-16 hours to work through online content (60 hrs to complete the full Unit - online content, teaching observation and assessments).
Prerequisites
This online learning material can be used by anyone, but to be formally assessed and gain accreditation of learning, you will need to be working in Scotland as a college lecturer or a college staff member responsible for teaching and assessing students.
Description
This unit is designed to support the ongoing professional development of recently appointed college lecturers and other college staff involved in learning, teaching, and assessing college students. It will help those with
subject specific skills and knowledge, and some prior teaching experience but no teaching qualifications develop their ability to plan and successfully deliver learning taking account of identified needs.
Audience/level
Recently appointed college lecturers and/or other college staff involved in learning, teaching, and assessing college students/Intermediate.
Duration
21-22 hours to work through online content (70 hrs to complete the full Unit - online content, teaching observation and assessments).
Prerequisites
This online learning material can be used by anyone, but to be formally assessed and gain accreditation of learning, you will need to be working in Scotland as a college lecturer or a college staff member responsible for teaching and assessing students.
Description
This area is only for the use of designated college contacts who are delivering Teaching in Colleges Today to their staff and are presenting candidates for formal certification and external verification.
Here is where you should complete and/or update the online proformas and upload relevant TiCT quality assurance documents and candidate assessment evidence ahead of your chosen external verification date.
Description
Hosted and supported by CDN (College Development Network), the purpose of the collective is to support mentors in their praxis/ delivery to support lecturers in theirs.
Sessions are held on Teams every 6/8 weeks (7 throughout the academic year) lasting 1.5hrs scheduled as 45 mins workshop for you, and 45 mins discussions/ open floor to talk about what's emerging in your contexts.
The workshops aim to explore a range of themes/ ideas that underpin innovations in learning, teaching and assessment (LTA); the sessions have been designed to integrate skills, strategies and approaches that can be used across a plethora of contexts, all with the purpose of building confidence in your creativity, agency, autonomy and authorship connected to LTA and curriculum design.
To join the collective, email Jo Turbitt:jo.turbitt@cdn.ac.ukDescription
These self-study online materials include a range of information developed to support any college lecturers completing the GR5K 49 PDA Teaching Practice in Scotland's
Colleges SCQF level 9 award within their college. To support engagement with and career long planning for professional development the content and material in each section is also aligned and mapped to the Professional Standards for Lecturers in Scotland's
Colleges.
Audience/Level
College lecturers and staff with prior experience of learning, teaching and assessing learners/ Intermediate to advanced
Duration
10 -12 hours.
Prerequisites
Prior knowledge and practical experience of learning, teaching and assessment practices would be beneficial.
By taking this course, you will be able to understand the importance of sustainability on personal, college and global levels; recognise key global challenges facing the world today in the context of the UN Sustainable Development Goals; consider how we can all contribute to change (including in personal choices around food, energy, travel, waste and wellbeing); identify actions that you can take to live and work more sustainably.
Audience/level
All college staff / beginner
Duration
30-45 minutes
None
Description
This course has been designed to help you develop your understanding of cooperative learning, its background and its benefits to learners and to learning. Its aim is to help you understand and apply the principles of cooperative
learning to enhance learning effectiveness and the learner experience.
Audience/Level
Teaching and support staff /Beginner
Duration
3-4 hours
Prerequisites
None
Description
An Educational Support Worker is someone who would normally support an individual to overcome barriers to learning to help eliminate an unfair disadvantage such as a disability. This module should be regarded as an introduction to
continuous personal development opportunities and form the foundation for completing the PDA Learner Support qualification.
Audience/Level
Staff in a supporting role within an educational environment
Duration
Approximately 3 hours
Prequisites
None
Description
A 6-module course which demonstrates how everyone can benefit from learning more about the data that flows around us. You will be introduced to the basics of data science, covering collection, storage, analysis and application, and given the option to develop a learning activity for students.
Audience/Level
Designed for lecturers, but suitable for anyone with an interest in
Data Science/Beginner
Duration
12-15 hours (including development of student learning activity)
Prequisites
None.
Description
This online content complements the information on the Safety Groups UK web site which supports the Learning Occupational Health by Experiencing Risk (LOcHER) project.
This resource includes information on how the LOcHER approach can be used to deliver Health and Safety learning within the Scottish college curriculum.
Audience/Level
Any college staff/lecturers involved in the delivery of health and safety learning/ Beginner
Duration
3 hours
Prerequisites
None
Description
A comprehensive set of resources to support the Certificate of Work Readiness programme. Useful for those delivering employability skills in any curriculum area, with tutor resources, learner materials and session ideas covering every aspect. Includes a section specifically designed to support working with learners on SCQF level 1 and level 2 courses.
Audience/Level
Those involved with delivery of employability skills in any curriculum area
Duration
3 hours
Prequisites
None
Description
In 2009/10, CDN, in partnership with the Higher Education Academy, produced a self-evaluation framework for the Embedding of Equality and Diversity in the Curriculum (EEDC). This framework is an update of that earlier version, taking into account the years of legal and behavioural change, incorporating further
research, guides and models developed since 2009/10.
Audience/Level
College staff, particularly those involved in developing equality, diversity and inclusivity as well as those engaged in learning and teaching. The module has been aligned to SCQF Level 7.
Duration
Approximately 4 hours.
Prequisites
None.
Description
This is a demo of a brand new six-week, part-time,
online tutor-supported course to be
delivered by colleges throughout Scotland.
It introduces students to a career
in Social Care and has been developed via the National Transitition Training Fund (NTTF). Access to this course is for demonstration purposes only.
Audience/Level
National Transition Training Fund Eligibility criteria for participant engagement will apply: aged over 25 years, unemployed, or under threat of unemployment.The module has been aligned to SCQF Level 5.
Duration
Approximately 6 weeks (40 hours)
Prequisites
None.