Monday, February 10, 2020

Resources for New Tutors

I have been a preoccupied providing advice on how to quickly provide courses for online delivery, for students who are unable to get to class due to the Novel Coronavirus. But I need to get back to tutor training. I am finding the online course Contemporary Approaches University Teaching has some good material, but would take some pruning, as it is a 12 week, 24 hour course, not something a tutor can do in a few hours. Some useful resources for students I have found, mostly from ANU's Coffee Courses:
  1. LinkedIn recently predicted that the most in-demand soft skills with employers for 2020 will be creativity, persuasion, collaboration, adaptability, and emotional intelligence.Tutoring can help you refine these skills and provide evidence to a prospective employer you are leadership material.

    See: The Most In-Demand Hard and Soft Skills of 2020, Bruce Anderson, LinkedIn Talent Blog, January 9, 2020. URL https://business.linkedin.com/talent-solutions/blog/trends-and-research/2020/most-in-demand-hard-and-soft-skills
  2. "... authentic real life assessment tasks should contain the challenges of a real life work context.
    From: Principles of authentic assessment, from Assessment and Feedback, Jill Lyall and Mandy Tutalo, ANU Coffee Course, 2019 URL https://anuonline.weblogs.anu.edu.au/2019/04/30/day-2-principles-of-authentic-assessment/
  3. In Small Group Teaching: From: Good practice examples in Module 3: Teaching practice, Enhancing Student Wellbeing, 2016. URL http://unistudentwellbeing.edu.au/teaching-practice/examples/
  4. Seven Learning Concepts
    1. Deep vs Surface Learning,
    2. Extrinsic vs Intrinsic motivation
    3. Taxonomies of knowledge and learning
    4. Characteristics of Adult Learning
    5. Constructivism
    6. Student-centred learning
    7. Active learning
    From: Why learning theory? Seven Key Concepts for University Teaching and Learning, Jill Lyall, ANU Coffee Courses, 2018. URL http://anuonline.weblogs.anu.edu.au/2018/11/14/day-1-why-learning-theory/

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