- Monday, 17 July 2023 - Thursday, 3 August 2023
12:00 am - Zoom – further details provided upon registration
The Casual Academic Program is a program for UTS teaching staff on casual contracts. It provides paid professional learning opportunities to support your teaching practice.
Who is eligible?
This workshop program is open to UTS teaching staff on active casual teaching contracts for Spring 2023.
UTS teaching staff without an active casual teaching contract for Spring 2023 are welcome to register. Please note that priority will be given to UTS teaching staff who have active casual teaching contracts for Spring 2023. If you don’t have an active casual teaching contract for Spring 2023 as yet, an email endorsement from your subject coordinator that you will be teaching in Spring 2023, to support your registration would be acceptable (email this to iml_ops@uts.edu.au).
Who is not eligible?
The following are not eligible for this workshop program:
- Those who do not have a UTS staff ID.
- Those who are in full-time or fractional employment at UTS, in addition to their casual teaching contract.
Registration opens on Monday 26 June
12 workshops are on offer in Spring 2023, from 17 July – 3 August. You may register for up to two workshops when registrations open on Monday, 26 June, 10am, below. Please note the registration closing dates for the workshops. Places are limited.
17 July – 20 July workshops
Registration closes: Thursday, 13 July, 11 am
- Classroom assessment techniques (CATs), Monday, 17 July, 1.30pm – 3.00pm
- Disruptive behaviours in the classroom: What do you do? Wednesday, 19 July, 11.00am – 12.30pm (In-person)
- Enhancing student engagement with Mentimeter, Thursday, 20 July, 10.00am – 11.30am
- What to do when they just don’t do the reading!, Thursday, 20 July, 2.00pm – 3.30pm
24 July – 27 July workshops
Registration closes: Friday, 21 July, 11 am
- Building student belonging in your classroom, Monday, 24 July, 10.00am – 11.30am
- Inclusive teaching for linguistically diverse classes, Tuesday, 25 July, 11.00am – 12.30pm
- Make sense of the Similarity Report in Turnitin, Tuesday, 25 July, 1.00pm – 2.30pm
- Student agency and teamwork, Thursday, 27 July, 11.00am – 12.30pm
31 July – 3 August workshops
Registration closes: Friday, 28 July, 11 am
- Feedback literacy: Helping students understand feedback, Monday, 31 July, 1.00pm – 2.30pm
- Supporting student learning with warm wise feedback, Tuesday, 1 August, 1.00pm – 2.30pm
- Marking in Canvas for tutors, Wednesday, 2 August, 1.00pm – 2.30pm
- How to help students prepare for their assessment task, Thursday, 3 August, 10.30am – 12.00pm
Download the Spring 2023 Casual Academic Program workshop descriptions.
Confirmation of your place
If eligible, you will receive an Outlook invite(s) approximately 3-7 days before your chosen workshops. The Outlook invite(s) will contain additional information about the workshop, including the location (either a Zoom link or a physical room location).
Payment
You will be paid to attend and participate in up to two online professional development workshops in the Spring 2023 Casual Academic Program by the Institute for Interactive Media & Learning (IML).
Paid places are at the Other Academic Activity non-PhD rate of $52.50ph. This is a professional learning opportunity, not a teaching activity.
Have a question?
For questions about payment or registration enquiries, send us an email.
Register for this event
Your video, audio and the meeting chat transcript may be recorded or photographed. Please advise the facilitator if you do not wish to be recorded or photographed.
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