1. Student - Week 14 (Turbidites and neritic): Lecture
2016
Contrasting experiences of postgraduate and staff education forums in Earth Sciences Chris Saville, Earth Sciences

2. Student - Week 14 (Turbidites and neritic): Lecture
2016
Education forum aims
Share good practise across the teaching staff in the department.
Disseminate ideas from external courses.
Increase communication about teaching within the department.
Have a forum for evaluating/discussing changes to teaching practises.

3. Student - Week 14 (Turbidites and neritic): Lecture Forum structure
2016
Forum structure
2 x 30 minutes sessions per term.
First session to provide ideas and provoke discussion.
Second session to follow up and review.
Deliberately informal.
Invited members of the department to share practise.

4. Student - Week 14 (Turbidites and neritic): Lecture Forum contents
2016
Forum contents
Staff
Postgraduate
Teaching International Students
Assessment and feedback
Follow up on Teaching International Students
Follow up from ‘Assessment and Feedback’
Lessons from the ‘Oil Game’
Demonstrating in the field
Implementation of lessons from the ‘Oil Game’
Review of fieldwork experiences
What do students learn from field work?
Small group teaching

5. Student - Week 14 (Turbidites and neritic): Lecture
2016
Impacts on departmental practise
Integrated reminders of minimum standards for demonstrator preparation.
Help with students understanding personal team-working/learning styles embedded earlier on in the course.
Review of division of teaching responsibilities during undergraduate fieldwork.

6. Student - Week 14 (Turbidites and neritic): Lecture
2016
Staff versus postgraduate
Staff
Postgraduates
Sharing ideas
Wanting help with problems
Looking to change own practise
Looking to increase amount of guidance they receive
Talked about own activities
Talked about others’ activities
Low attendance
High attendance
Led discussions (both formally and informally)
Lots of cross-questioning and trying to acquire information
Becoming the sharing practise mechanism of department peer- observation system.
Embedded into future induction
Led to personal activities to try
Led to institutional activities to do

7. Student - Week 14 (Turbidites and neritic): Lecture Takeaways
2016
Takeaways
A large collection of good practices taking place across Earth Sciences weren’t being shared previously.
Postgraduates often don’t see themselves as being responsible for their own teaching.
Regular discussion is needed to prevent bad practises just becoming embedded in ways we work.
It’s difficult to incorporate ideas of things to try into ongoing teaching.