spotLITE, workshop 2: Rethinking silence, engagement and pedagogic interaction with Niamh Mullen and Peter Matthews

Book your place

 

Looking to try something different in the classroom during the next academic year? Open to discovering innovative, critically minded and cross-disciplinary approaches to Teaching & Learning? Interested in being part of a collaborative network of SoTL-invested colleagues? 

If you have answered ‘yes’ to these questions, we invite you to join us as we put pedagogic innovation in the 'spotLITE'! 

In the second session of spotLITE, we join Niamh and Peter (School of Languages, Cultures and Societies) to engage with the pedagogic innovations they have implemented since completing their LITE research on academic listening.

In this workshop, you will:

- Gain an appreciation of the complex factors which underpin the presence of silence in learning spaces, and develop pedagogic practices appropriate for fostering engagement between students and teachers in an increasingly internationalised student body.

- Engage with approaches to scaffolding communication across different types of pedagogic event, and co-create solutions to tackle barriers to comprehension.

- Contextualise both pedagogic approaches in line with your own discipline or service. This will be done through practical engagement (from a learner’s perspective), individual and group reflection, and informal experimentation.

Timings:

13:15-13.30: Arrival and welcome

13:30-14:30: Part 1 | Rethinking silence and engagement among diverse student groups, with Niamh

14:30-14:50: Tea/coffee and selection of fruit/pastries

14:50-15:50: Part 2 | Scaffolding listener-speaker interaction in lectures and seminars, with Peter

15:50-16:00: Close

This workshop is suitable for anyone who works in a student-facing teaching/training environment, including teaching academics, postgraduate teaching assistants, and professional services staff. If you have any queries about this event, please contact Robert at R.Averies@leeds.ac.uk.

While this workshop is for in-person attendance only, the short presentation sections will be recorded and uploaded to a share OneDrive folder. If you would like access to this, please contact Robert after the workshop.