In at the deep end
This handy little booklet has been adapted by the Teaching and Learning Development Unit (TLDU), from original materials by Professor Phil Race, Leeds Metropolitan University.
Many colleagues start their teaching careers in higher education by getting ‘thrown in at the deep end’. For some, within weeks or days of taking up their posts, there are lectures to be given, or tutorials to run, or seminars to lead, or marking of students’ work to be done. Sometimes they face one or more of these prospects without having had any opportunity to learn how to tackle such challenges. Relevant staff development opportunities may indeed exist, but not always in time for those critical first experiences of teaching or assessing.
The aim of this booklet is to help you to cope well with those first few critical elements of your work in teaching in higher education.
If you are teaching at Sussex University and would like a copy of In at the deep end please contact TLDU on tldu@sussex.ac.uk, or you can download a pdf version.