Book club 2024-2025: Supporting Student Learning
Academic Development continues with the book club for the next academic year as well. Discussions will be around the book "Teach your students how to learn", by Saundra Yancy McGuire, available online via Locate.
The sessions are aimed to be interactive and an opportunity for colleagues to share their own experiences, challenges and successes. Participants are advised to read the chapter before joining, however, if they are unable to, they can still join and participate in the discussions.
The meeting will take place on the 3rd Wednesday of each month at 10.00 - 11.00
To sign up for the meetings you can join our Scholarly Practice and SoTL group - Teams' space or book online via the below links:
Thursday 18th July 2024 - Discussions on Chapter 1 - Saundra's journey: from traditional instructor to Academic Transformer and Chapter 2 - Why don't our students already know how to learn?
Wednesday 21st of August 2024 : Chapter 3 - Metacognition: What it is and how it helps students become better learners?
Wednesday 18th of September 2024: Chapter 4 - The Power of Teaching Bloom's taxonomy and the study cycle to students
Wednesday 16th of October 2024: Chapter 5 - Metacognitive Learning Strategies at Work
Wednesday 20th of November 2024: Chapter 6 - Mindset Matters
Wednesday 18th of December 2024: Chapter 7 - Connections between Motivation, Emotions, and Learning
Wednesday 15th of January 2025: Chapter 8 - What Faculty can do to boost motivation, positive emotions and learning
Wednesday 26th of February 2025: Chapter 9 - What Students can do to boost motivation, positive emotions and learning
*For February only, the session will take place on the 4th Wednesday of the month*
Wednesday 19th of March 2025: Chapter 10 - Partnering with you campus learning center
*no session in April*
Wednesday 21st of May 2025: Chapter 11 - Teaching learning strategies to groups
Wednesday 18th of June 2025: Chapter 12 - Teaching unprepared students