Learning Outcomes:
Having successfully completed this module, you will have demonstrated the ability to:
1. Apply systematic reflective frameworks to critically examine and evaluate your own teaching practice, identifying strengths, challenges, and areas for growth through evidence-based analysis.
2. Demonstrate reflective understanding of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles by analysing how these practices enhance inclusive education and documenting their integration into your teaching approach.
3. Engage in supportive collaborative reflective dialogue through peer-to-peer teaching conversations, using structured reflection protocols to identify and analyse evidence of learning in both your own and others' teaching practice.
4. Design and justify meaningful learning experiences by exploring and articulating the alignment between learning outcomes, teaching strategies, universal design for learning principles and assessment methods, using reflection to enhance these connections.
Indicative Module Content:
Participants will engage with learning materials weekly in Brightspace which serve as a touchstone and guide for the synchronous online sessions
Weekly Topics:
Week 1 - Module introduction, overview and pre-class survey
Week 2 - Universal Design for Learning
Week 3 - Universal Design for Learning
Week 4 - Universal Design for Learning
Week 5 - Theories of Reflective and Reflexive Practice
Week 6 - Looking for Learning with Peers
Week 7 - Looking for Learning Conversations Continued
Week 8 - Looking for Learning Conversations Continued
Week 9 - Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Week 10 - Reflection as Research
Week 11 - Synthesis
Week 12 - Reflection Remix & Reflecting Beyond UTL 40180