Here’s a collection of resources you might find helping when preparing for or relecting on your teaching. Some are from outside of English HE, so there might be some differences in the way students are taught/ the way courses are structured (Scotlands undergraduate degrees are four years rather than the three years of English, Wales, and Northern Ireland) but most of the advice should still be applicable to your teaching at City.

QAA Scotland has created a video, ‘What I Wish I’d Known When I Started Teaching’ which shares the experiences of PhD students, and has some useful advice.

A common concern is how to get students talking in class – Standford University has a list of suggestions to help with this, which one of the City PhD students has found very useful.

Ryerson, a Canadian university, has a great guide to good practice in teaching, such as creating opportunities for active learning, getting students to be critical, providing feedback to students (important even if you are not doing any formal marking), grading and assessment, and enabling student self-evaluation.

Imperial Toolkit for inclusive learning and teaching – the students you teach will be diverse in many aspects, such age, gender, ethnicity, class, educational background and disability. Such diversity is hugely beneficial, but some students might face particular barriers, and it’s important to be aware of this and teach in a way which includes all students. This might sound a little daunting, so the Imperial Toolkit is useful to provide you with things to consider and practical actions you can take. you might find the pages on ‘Preparing Students for Learning‘ particularly beneficial.

The University of Sheffield has produced a toolkit for learning and teaching, which provides advice on most aspects of teaching. You might find the sections on ‘Modes of Teaching’ and ‘Modes of Learning’ particularly useful.

Western University, Canada has put the handbook for its graduate teaching assistants online, which address issues such as how to design lessons, give effective feedback to students,  lead discussion and teach science or engineering.

Please let me know if you’ve used these resources and have any feedback, and let me know if you’ve come across anything useful!