IMPROVING OWN KNOWLEDGE

Assessing Students

• This web page gives an overview of the purposes, trends, issues and various methods of assessment used both in UCD and internationally.
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Coaching Skills

• Information on the process of coaching.
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• An alternative view on coaching and attitudes.
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• Here is a definition as to what is coaching.
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Evaluating Learning

• The training evaluation guide on this site is augmented by an excellent set of free learning evaluation and follow-up tools and is available as a free pdf document to view and download.
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Identifying Needs

• Conducting a Training Needs Assessment
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• This link identifies a document outlining communication needs, objectives and activities.
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• This article looks at acknowledging needs, Maslow's hierarchy of needs and needs assessment.
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Group Teaching

• This site explores how some of your students may like working in groups while others prefer to work alone. These ideas, developed by author and trainer Mel Silberman, will help set up a small-class schedule to assist you to educate and motivate even the most reluctant students.
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Learning Styles

• The following link provides good information on personal learning styles.
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Listening Skills

• This site gives tips on how to become a better communicator and improve your listening skills.
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• This site gives tips on how to improve your listening skills.
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Managing Group Work

• On this site it explors how some of your students may like working in groups while others prefer to work alone. These ideas from author and trainer Mel Silberman will help set up a small-class schedule to help you educate and motivate even the most reluctant students.
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Obtaining Feedback

• This site will explore ways of obtaining feedback from students, to improve teaching.
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Providing Feedback

• This site links to several guides that look at giving effective feedback.
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Reflection

• This site gives some tips on questioning techniques that can enhance active learning.
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• This site deals with the concept that reflection is what allows us to learn from our experiences: it is an assessment of where we have been and where we want to go next.
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Teaching Strategies

• Questions teachers should ask themselves.
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• The following recommendations can help make the lecture approach more effective.
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• This links to information on effective teaching strategies and includes details on ‘Ten Effective Teaching Principles’.
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Teaching Theory Vs Teaching

• Paper from the Effective Teaching Conference on 'Preparing Students for Clinical Practice'.
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Training and Teaching Techniques

• New instructors may find these tips helpful for answering many of the questions and concerns that come with teaching in any setting for the first time.
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• This site looks at training and teaching techniques and gives an overview into different learning styles that can be encountered when teaching.
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