This site is about being a teacher in a university and practicing SMART teaching. It is aimed at helping the person responsible for orchestrating the student learning experience (in-class, out of class, around class) in times when the rhetoric is about changing the way teaching happens whilst at the same time better meeting our ‘customer’s’ expectations.
We are urged to do less ‘lecturing’ and get students to work together more, be more active participants in classroom sessions during which they collaborate and, if we are really lucky, create new knowledge and outputs. And alongside all of that, we are also pressured into using technology more to help achieve the change.
And as if that’s not enough alongside stuff, alongside that last that, we have to worry about assessing students, giving them good feedback, getting them to engage with that feedback and helping them to think, reflect, improve, develop their skills, become more employable, deliver world peace, solve poverty and hopefully not degenerate into too much populism.
Phew!! Tall order or what?
SMART Teaching 