Teaching Development Activities

This section is where I list modules/courses that I have:

  • acted as a supervisor

  • taught on courses

  • provided consultatory guidance in the form of coaching, mentoring on while developing academic staff who create the content of the course; in essence, I teach teachers but not in a classroom setting; I lead them in the development of courses

  • provided ad hoc guidance with respect to learning design/design for learning, teaching and assessment

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Teaching, consulting and supervising

Courses/programs where I have acted as a supervisor

  • AY2022/2023 and AY2023/24

    • Associate Tutor @ University of Glasgow School of Education

      • I supervise Master’s students undertaking the MSc and MEd Education Studies degrees.

  • AY2015 - 2017

    • Teaching Fellow @ Royal Holloway University

      • I supervised students on a pre-Master’s programme; the pre-Master’s programme was designed to equip future Master’s level students with the academic literacies required for study at PGT level.

Courses/programs where I have delivered teaching

  • AY2019/2020

    • Senior Teaching Associate @ Lancaster University

      • I led, co-design and taught on the module MNGT160 Future Global Leaders: Sustainability Across Business (online w/1200+ students). This was a cross-management school module consisting of Year 1 students.

  • AY2015 - 2017

    • Teaching Fellow @ Royal Holloway University

      • I taught a range of year-long pre-sessional and in-sessional courses and delivered academic writing development to students on UG and PGT programs.

      • Specific courses include:

        • English Through The Media Part A: Understanding Media in the UK (blended)

        • English Through The Media Part B: Issues that Unite and Divide People (blended)

        • Research Writing & Research Skills

  • AY2014/15

    • Senior Pre-sessional Tutor @ Coventry University

      • I co-led, designed and taught pre-sessional English language courses using blended learning on Moodle and Mahara.

  • AY2010 - 2013

    • English for Academic Purposes Tutor @ University of St Andrews

    • English as a Foreign Language Tutor @ University of Glasgow

    • Teaching Fellow in English for Academic Purposes @ University College, London

    • English for Academic Purposes Tutor @ University of Bristol

    • Summary of these roles:

      • In each of these posts, I taught English for academic purposes and academic writing to a range of pre-UG and pre-PG students. I taught on year-round pre-sessionals, foundation programs and in-sessional programmes.

      • I developed students’ academic literacies required for a range of levels of study.

      • I delivered pastoral care and actively integrated active digital learning and teaching.

      • Specific courses taught:

        • Foundation Year for Medicine @ University of St Andrews

        • Linguistics LI1001 - Foundations of Language 1 @ University of St Andrews

        • English for Biology & Chemistry; English for International Relations @ University College, London

Ad hoc consultations I have provided upon request

  • Online assessment practices on a Bachelor of Divinity @ University of London

  • A PG history conference that suddenly moved online

  • UK Parliamentary Office of Science & Technology COVID-19 Contribution

  • Suddenly remote delivery (all at Lancaster University)

    • CREW103 Introduction to Creative Writing

    • ENGR114 Fundamentals of Electronic Instrumentation

    • ENGR115 Programming Fundamentals 

    • ENSI532 Entrepreneurial Lab

    • HIST100 From Ancient to Modern: History and Historians

    • MED125 Exercise Prescription

    • MED140 Professional Practice

    • OWT326 Organising in the Digital Age (https://wp.lancs.ac.uk/owt326/) 

    • Study Start / English for Academic Purposes 4 week programme

    • Various modules related to medicine, marketing, history, sociology, psychology (too many to list!!!)

Educating the educators

In this section, list courses/modules where I have led and educated the educators in the development of courses/modules. I say this because in simple terms, it makes sense and is easily understandable by a wide audience.

I have expanded the teaching repertoire of colleagues by developing their academic, digital and media literacies through a mixture of teaching/coaching/mentoring by acting as a critical friend to colleagues. I draw on a mixture of ABC Learning Design and Universal Design for Learning principles. The result is that the educators have a better, deeper and expanded understanding of creating courses for blended and/or fully online learning which is fundamentally different to creating/delivering teaching in person.

University of Glasgow - 2020 to present

  • I led and developed staff to create blended modules; we collaborated on design and development (all on Moodle):

    • Scottish Funding Council microcredentials (10 credit PGT level courses)

      • An Introduction to Information Management (April 2022)

      • Sustainable Tourism (Sept 2022)

      • Understanding Infant Mental Health & Development (Sept 2022 )

      • Cultural Heritage Skills For Business (April 2023) 

    • MOOCs for Coursera and FutureLearn courses

      • MOOCs

        • Introduction to Playwriting (January 2024)

        • Advanced Writing for Business (October 2023)

      • Specializations for Coursera (a series of MOOCs)

        • Music Composition (December 2023)

    • Fully online modules collaborated on for development (all on Moodle using a mixture of Articulate Rise and Microsoft Office Suite tools)

      • MSc Advanced Vet Nurse Practitioner Programme Hub + following courses:

        • VETMED4023 Research & Evidence-Based Vet Nursing

        • VETMED5054 Animal and Veterinary Ethics

        • VETMED5055 Quality Improvement in Veterinary Nursing

        • VETMED5056 Developing Evidence Based Practice Through Reflection

        • VETMED5057 Teaching and Assessment in Veterinary Education (I guest lectured on digital education)

        • VETMED5059 Research Design and Dissemination

      • MSc Animal Nutrition Hub + following courses:

        • VETSCI5031 Current topics in Animal Nutrition

        • VETSCI5032 Digestive anatomy and physiology

        • VETSCI5034 Feed composition & evaluation

        • VETSCI5036 Feed processing (monogastrics)

        • VETSCI5037 Feed processing (ruminants)

        • VETSCI5039 Nutritional Biochemistry and Metabolism

        • VETSCI5040 Research Methods for Animal Sciences

      • MED5602 Themes in Palliative Care

    • Others where I provided content as a guest speaker

      • EDUC51058 Designing online education

Lancaster University (2017-2020)

  • I led and developed staff to create blended modules; we collaborated on design and development (all on Moodle;  Lancaster):

    • Lancaster Executive MBA:

      • EMBA571 Leadership & Organisational Behavior

      • EMBA572 Business Economics

      • EMBA573 Business Ethics & Sustainability

      • EMBA574 Accounting & Finance for Managers

      • EMBA575 Marketing Management 

      • EMBA576 Operations Management

      • EMBA577 Entrepreneurship & Innovation 

      • EMBA578 Global Strategic Management 

      • EMBA579 Business Research & Consultancy Project

    • ENSI101 Entrepreneurship: Key Debates & Concepts

    • MKTG229 Routes to Market

    • MKGT310 Marketing Research & Consultancy Project 

  • I led developed staff to create fully online modules; we collaborated on design and development (all on Moodle): 

    • Lancaster Executive MBA:

      • EMBA580 International Business in Context 

      • EMBA581 Managing Strategic Change

      • EMBA582 Mergers & Acquisitions 

      • EMBA583 Strategic Brand Management 

      • EMBA584 Responsible Leadership Challenge 

      • EMBA585 Innovation & Improvement Methods in Healthcare

      • EMBA586 Quality Improvement & Measurement in Healthcare

      • EMBA587 Systems Thinking

      • EMBA588 Leaders Leveraging Human Capital: Managing the Interface of HRM

      • EMBA590 Business Management Challenge

      • EMBA591 Research Methods (http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/lums-research-methods/)

Teaching English as a foreign language

Prior to working in universities, I taught English as a foreign language, or EFL for short. Specifically, I taught a range of levels and courses primarily to adults. These experiences cumulatively laid the foundations for my career as an educator and teacher.

I have taught EFL in China, Russia and with shorter roles in Ethiopia and the United Arab Emirates.

  • Shanghai, China

    • From 2001 to 2002, I taught EFL to pre-intermediate and intermediate level learners.

  • Moscow, Russia

    • From 2005 to 2009, I taught EFL to learners on the following CERF levels:

      • A1 and A2 - i.e. the ‘basic user’ levels which includes elementary and pre-intermediate levels

      • B1 and B2 - i.e. the ‘independent user’ levels which includes intermediate and upper intermediate levels

      • C1 and C2 - i.e. the ‘proficient user’ levels which includes advanced and professional levels

    • I also taught general and more specialist Business English courses and English for law.

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