Early Careers Workshop 2019 | Resources
This page contains resources from the 2019 Early Careers Workshop at Newcastle University. We will be adding more resources during and after the workshop.
Participant Info
Introduction
UK higher education
If you are unfamiliar with the UK higher education system or the recent developments within it (e.g. the Teaching Excellence Framework), the resources below may be useful:
- Glossary of UK Higher Education terms, related to compliance, education structure and professional development.
- Article on the Teaching Excellence Framework, see page 12 of our newsletter.
Workshop overview
The Early Careers Workshop is designed to: engage delegates in effective methods of learning and teaching in higher education specifically relevant to the teaching of economics; enable delegates to discuss, evaluate and critically reflect on your own experience of teaching through dialogue with others; and engage delegates with relevant current research on education.
Resources from workshop sessions
Know your students
Module design
- Presentation
- Handbook chapter: Module and curriculum design
- Top tips for designing modules
- Top tips for setting up and running a VLE
Engaging students in large groups
- Presentation
- Handbook chapter: large group teaching
- Case studies: large group teaching
- TED Talk: How to avoid death by Powerpoint
- Top tips for large group teaching
- Top tips for communicating with students
Teaching showcase and demonstrations
Problem-based learning
- Presentation: Problem-based learning
- Paper: 'Fifty Years on: A Retrospective on the World's First Problem-based Learning Programme at McMaster University Medical School'
- Paper: 'Signs of Erosion: Reflections on Three Decades of Problem-based Learning at Maastricht University'
Flipped classrooms
- Presentation: Flipped classrooms
- Top tips for producing online videos
- Top tips for making videos effective
- Top tips for teaching with webinars
- Top tips for creating podcasts
- Top tips for problem-based learning
Games and the media in teaching
- Presentation
- Case studies: Classroom experiments, games and role-play
- Handbook chapter: The use of media and technology in the classroom
- Handbook chapter: Economic classroom experiments
- Top tips for using games and experiments
- Instructions: Market game
- Handout: Market game - buyers' record sheet
- Handout: Market game - sellers' record sheet
- Instructions: Production function game
- Instructions and handout: Prisoners' dilemma gam
Curiosity and narrative
- Top tips for encouraging your students to be curious
- Great example of a lecture that captures students' curiosity - Michael Sandal's 'What's the right thing to do'
Voice and presence in the classroom
- TED Talk (great example that backs up importance of delivery)
- Access the resources (Login code UBL659)
Assessment and employability skills
- Presentation
- Case studies: Assessment
- Handbook chapter: Alternative forms of formative and summative assessment
- Top tips for assessment and feedback
Other resources
Workshop task
- Paper from Economic Letters
- Excerpt from Introductory Econometrics
Improving pedagogy and career development
- Presentation (from Edmund Cannon, 2018 workshop)
- Link to journal: International Review of Economics Education
