All Library Entries
The Library is divided in four main categories that you can explore starting from the Library Home page: 1) Student-Centred environment, 2) International and intercultural integration, 3) Emotional intelligence and 4) Staff and Students Wellbeing.
Filtering the pedagogies according to additional useful criteria
In addition to such categories, each pedagogy has been 'tagged' according to useful criteria that can allow you to further filter them so you can find the right type of inspiration. These filters are:
* Class-size (100, 30, etc.),
* Class level (First Year UG, PGT, etc.),
* Class type (online, seminar, lecture, etc.),
* Preparation time,
* Time during the term (preparation, start, middle, end) and
* Conditions to wellbeing promoted by the pedagogy.
In order to filter the pedagogies according to these additional criteria, please use the filter system on the right hand side of this page. For starting filtering, please make sure you first click on 'Select none'. Once you have done this, please select as many or as little tags as you wish (e.g. 10 Conditions to Wellbeing: Flexibility, Class Size: Large, Preparation Time: Short) and then click 'Show Selected'. The pedagogies that respond to the categories you have selected will come up as result of your search. For exploring all the relevant filtered pedagogies, click on the buttons 'Latest News, Older news, Newer news' at the bottom of the page.
Peer Marking
This pedagogy encourages students to give feedback on each other's assignments to help with critical analysis skills and peer-to-peer learning.
Individual Interactions
Various techniques that can help with the initial stages of lectures or seminars to 'break the ice' and improve classroom culture using activities relating to the course or just integration exercises.
Shared Learning / Case Studies
This page has a variety of different teaching strategies that include: co-creation exercises with students and case-study examples relating to course content; strategies that implore students to hypothetically contextualise themselves within their course content; lastly, peer assessments as a way to promote social cohesion and diversify student's perspective.
Polling Software
Use of polling software such as Vevox to promote engagement. Being able to utilise software that encourages the whole classroom or lecture hall to engage can be an effective way for staff members to gauge progress and participation. But also, students are able to take part in an enjoyable and creative exercise that diverts from the traditional didactic teaching method. Furthermore, it is an inclusive approach that allows students who are less willing to e.g. putting their hand up, to participate, generally in an anonymous fashion.
Intermissions
To be used in lecture classes of around 100-130 students but also with class sizes of 14 students. In two hour sessions, the teacher delivers the first half of the session, pauses and gives the students a choice as to whether they would like to take a break, and for how long, or whether they would like to continue so that they can finish the session early.
Audio Recording & Transcripts
To support students when reviewing material, presentations are accompanied with an audio recording and transcript. During the pandemic, when video recording became more common, these were also accompanied with a transcript of the presentation. A transcript is important for inclusive and accessible learning as it allows students to read the presentation.
Multilingual, Interdisciplinary Teaching Strategy
Dr Bryan Brazeau has a background in various cultural and linguistic academic settings, which has helped him devise this concept and subsequent pedagogical practise. The idea seeks to encourage learning across ‘neighbourhoods’ or linguistic boundaries. In an academic setting, this looks at tapping and utilising the existing pool of linguistic and cultural variation within the classroom on a given topic. Interdisciplinarity is at the heart of this practice tied with the idea of linguistic hospitality, coined by Paul Ricoeur, the notion of welcoming foreign cultures and languages into one’s own. This practice is very much in the embryonic stages, but presents the opportunity to take a different perspective on language in western education while merging the borders of subject-based teaching.
Presence / Accessibility
This is a very straightforward and easy practice: stay behind for a few minutes at the end of a lecture in case any students have any questions they’d like to ask individually.