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ANU Tutor Orientation

ANU Tutor Inductions

Online Resources

PhD Tutor Training

Formal Qualifications

SIDECARS

 

ANU Tutor Orientation

The Tutors Support Network offers a Tutor Orientation before the beginning of the academic year.

Tutor Orientation 2010  (date to be advised)

Are you a postgraduate student or in the final year of your undergraduate study?

Are you confident in your knowledge of your discipline or speciality?

Are you a good presenter and communicator, or do you want to become one?

If your answer is yes, have you considered getting into tutoring or demonstrating at ANU?

You are warmly welcomed by the ANU Tutors Support Network (TSN) to the Tutor Orientation 2010!

This event is intended for new and established tutors and demonstrators who are keen to learn more about their roles within the ANU, as well as those who have never taught before and are interested in what is involved.

The Orientation will outline tutors' pay and conditions, and provide you with information about support within the campus, useful resources as well as some handy hints and tricks to be a good tutor. Most importantly, you will be given plenty of opportunities to have all your enquiries regarding tutoring answered. So come and join your (potential) colleagues for an insightful session on what tutoring is at ANU. There will be a free lunch held after the presentations. Moving around and catching a good conversation; there could hardly be a better idea than starting your semester with some new friends.

Note: This session is in addition to individual College Tutor Inductions that will be held after O Week.

ANU Tutor Inductions

There are tutor training opportunities available in the ANU Colleges.

The Information Literacy Program has been running Tutor Inductions over the years.  They have a list of Previous events.

Online Resources

Thinking about teaching & learning

Theory Online - a series of online modules.  
The first module, on Student Learning, is relevant to tutors.

Stories from the front

PhD Tutor Training

The Graduate Teaching Program is a one-semester program of support and development for PhD tutors and demonstrators.

Pinnacle is a special program of teaching training for PhD students at ANU, aimed at assisting participants to make the transition to academic in charge of a course.

Pinnacle is an exclusive program, available to only a few students each semester. Students in Pinnacle work closely with an academic on the preparation and delivery of a course, while undertaking other related activities.

FUTaL (Foundations of University Teaching and Learning)

This Autumn session course is designed to provide an introduction to the fundamentals of university teaching and learning within the ANU context. It will consist of one full-day and four half-day intensive workshops. There will also be a course offered in the Winter session for which you may enrol already.

Benefits
  • Gain an overview of the processes of teaching & learning
  • Explore interesting ways to design courses and learning experiences
  • Build networks with colleagues with a shared understanding of educational theory and practice
Who is it for?
  • Staff new to the ANU and/or new to university teaching
  • Graduates preparing for an academic career
  • Continuing academic staff interested in obtaining an overview of the foundations of university teaching and learning

Pinnacle and FUTaL are intended for Early Career Academics and are not particularly designed for tutors.

Formal qualifications

If you are teaching, supervising research students, engaged in leading and managing others, or otherwise responsible in the broadest possible way for enabling others to learn and develop, then the CEDAM graduate coursework programs offer you an opportunity to become more effective in your practice.

If you are ready to experience a new challenge and make a contribution to knowledge, you are invited to consider undertaking a research degree with CEDAM.

Choose from a Graduate Certificate in Higher Education, Masters and Doctorate offered by CEDAM.

SIDECARS

SIDECARS (Support, Inspiration and Development for Early Career Academics and Research Students), is run as a series of workshops for those running a course.

The purpose of SIDECARS is to assist early career academics and research students who are course coordinators and lecturers. Research Students who are asked to run a complete undergraduate course are often isolated, under-resourced, and under-prepared for the task they face. Newly appointed academics often find themselves in a similar position. SIDECARS helps to reduce that isolation, and provide much-needed resources and preparation, assisting participants in the transition from student to academic.