This page contains resources from the 2016 early careers workshop at the University of Westminster Business School.
Before the workshop
Pre-workshop task
- Watch the first 24 minutes of Michael Sandal's What's the right thing to do lecture, and reflect on which elements of the lecture that you would consider adopting in your teaching.
Workshop programme and guide
Resources from the workshop
- Economics Network Handbook for Economics Lecturers
Session 1: Workshop roadmap and the UKPSF
- Workshop roadmap
- PDF of the UK Professional Standards Framework
- Professional Standards Framework Guidance
- Areas of activity - initial ideas
- Senior Fellow case studies - initial ideas
- UK PSF Presentation (Ros O'Leary)
Session 2: Knowing your students
Session 3: Large group teaching
Session 4: Assessment and feedback
- Presentation (Jon Guest and Christian Spielmann)
- Example of grade descriptors
- Case study: Better Preparing Students for Assessment: Marking Criteria, Mock Assessments and Peer-Feedback
Session 5: Module design
- Presentation (Peter Smith and Guglielmo Volpe)
- Module profile template
- Sample programme specification
Session 8: Skills development in the curriculum
Session 9: Teaching analytical sessions
Session 10: Teaching interpretative sessions
- Presentation (Alvin Birdi and Christian Spielmann)
- Paper: S. Boes, S. Nuesch and K. Wuthrich, 2015, Hedonic valuation of the perceived risks of nuclear power plants
Session 11: Voice and presence in the classroom
Session 12: Games and media in teaching
- Presentation (Caroline Elliott and Jon Guest)
- Market Game: Instructions
- Market Game: Buyers' Record sheet
- Market Game: Sellers' Record sheet
- Production Game: Record sheet
- Production Game: Results spreadsheet
- Public Goods Game: Instructions
Further resources
- Economics Network teaching resources
- Economics Network pedagogical research
- Economics education events
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Contacts
- Ashley, Economics Network
- Ralf Becker, University of Manchester
- Alvin Birdi, Economics Network and University of Bristol
- Edmund Cannon, University of Bristol
- Caroline Elliott, University of Huddersfield
- Jon Guest, Warwick Business School
- Ros O'Leary, University of Gloucestershire
- Peter Smith, University of Southampton
- Christian Spielmann, University College London
- Guglielmo Volpe, Queen Mary University of London
