Teaching through tutorials and lab classes

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Teaching through tutorials and lab classes

• ITMS new tutors - 2005

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Practicalities - Who to see

• Day-to-day issues to do with the unit(s)
• Unit co-ordinator
• Tutors
• Pay and personnel matters
• Kym Kingston
• General teaching and learning issues
• Unit Co-ordinator
• Learning and Teaching Co-ordinator ( Robyn
  Pierce)
• Course Coordinator
• BComp, BIT, BIS Chris Turville
• MIT Adrienne Smith Gaudlitz
• MIS Charlynn Miller

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Purpose student learning
Tutors Facilitate Guide/ Advise Identify
background gaps Support student learning Provide
role model
Students Participate Work in groups Work
alone Share with group
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Tutors our expectations

• Meet with lecturer
• Prepare for tutorials/ labs
• Conduct tutorial
• Be available to provide 1-1 assistance outside of
  class
• Be aware of range of support available to
  students
• Following marking guide mark assessment for
  return within 2 weeks of
  submission

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Delivery

• You are working at the coal face
• Be clear about your expectations of students
• Ask unit co-ordinator / lecturer for hints tips
  on technical stuff
• Be yourself
• Focus on learning not on final product
• Enjoy yourself

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• Tutoring
• is about teaching students
• not just a subject

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Students bring different

• Cultural norms
• Experience
• Interests
• Academic backgrounds
• Strengths
• Weaknesses
• Personalities
• Priorities

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Students bring prior knowledge

• This may be
• Correct
• Comprehensive
• With gaps many!
• Including incorrect ideas
• Incorrect connections
• Only peripherally related

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Students construct knowledge schema

• New information may result in..
• Addition
• Modification
• Expansion
• Cognitive conflict may result in..
• Rejection
• Modification
• of existing schema

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Building strong knowledge schema

• Multiple representations
• Visual
• Symbolic
• Verbal etc
• Examples
• Counter examples
• Applications

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Assessment

• Assessment tasks
• Help the students to do it themselves
• Try asking questions and getting them to talk you
  through it
• Marking
• Unit co-ordinator should provide a marking guide.
  
• Helpful to mark one or two and have an
  experienced tutor re-mark them.

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Communicate

• Talk to students
• Talk to lecturer
• Talk to other tutors
• Talk to staff outside the unit
• Talk to each other

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Questions???