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We won a CATE!

Thu, 08 Aug 2024 16:26:59 GMT

WPTC is delighted to share that we have won the 2024 Collaborative Award for Teaching Excellence, alongside 16 other education-related teams across the UK! This award is a reflection on all the hard work from PGRs across the WPTC iterations since 2021 and we could not be more proud! To read more click here: ��TV Postgraduate Teaching Community | Advance HE (advance-he.ac.uk)

GTA Tips and Tricks: Develop Interactional Competence in Teaching Space

Thu, 25 Apr 2024 16:32:34 GMT

Are you currently a GTA or aspiring to become one? Do you find yourself wondering how to interact with students and facilitate group work effectively?

The GTA Tips & Tricks Workshop: Develop Interactional Competence in Teaching Space will take place in June. Join our mailing list to receive information about our upcoming workshop: https://forms.office.com/e/JCCRgJWLxH?origin=lprLink

This workshop is designed specifically for postgraduate teachers like you who are eager to become a teacher who has the confidence and competence to interact with students in Higher Education classrooms.

Journal of PGR Pedagogic Practice (Issue 3) - out now!

Fri, 01 Dec 2023 12:24:54 GMT

WPTC presents - The Staff Room

Wed, 02 Nov 2022 16:11:44 GMT

Want to get to know other PGR teachers and GTAs? ��TV PTC is introducing a new event - a monthly session called The Staff Room! This is an opportunity for you to come together with other GTAs, discuss all things teaching and unwind!

Journal of PGR Pedagogic Practice (Issue 2) - out now!

Tue, 18 Oct 2022 09:59:17 GMT

We’re thrilled to announce that the Journal of PGR Pedagogic Practice (Issue 2) has now been published. You can view the publication on our website at https://journals.warwick.ac.uk/index.php/jppp/issue/view/70

We would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who contributed to the second issue of the journal. We’re so pleased with how the journal came together, and it was a privilege to feature so many brilliant articles.

Our thanks also go to those who attended our JPPP Workshop last August, be it in person or virtual. If you wish to read the overview of the workshop, please visit 2022 Workshop (warwick.ac.uk)

WPTC win a Collaborative Teaching award

Fri, 09 Sep 2022 17:13:21 GMT

We are excited to announce that ��TV PTC were highly commended in the recent ��TV Awards for Teaching Excellence in a new category dedicated to teams working together to promote learning and teaching work. This is testimony to the hard work of the founding PGR team, as well as the work of the current WPTC team who have taken this work forward. We are delighted to announce ongoing funding for 2022-23!

GTA Hours survey is now live!

Thu, 08 Sep 2022 09:10:59 GMT

��TV Postgraduate Teaching Community have now launched their GTA Hours survey! The purpose of the study is to survey postgraduate researchers who teach (known as GTAs) at ��TV to find out if their contracted teaching hours align with the time they actually spend preparing for and delivering teaching, as well as assisting their students.

Find out more about the survey, and how to access it, by clicking here!

GTA Tips and Tricks Workshop Series Session #4 - October 5th

Wed, 17 Aug 2022 11:08:00 GMT

Are you thinking about making the next step in your academic research career and becoming a graduate teaching assistant? Are you already a GTA?

��TV PTC are organising a series of regular sessions dedicated to answering all of these questions, hosted by current ��TV GTAs, in an honest, helpful community forum. Our next session will be held on October 5th. This hybrid session will be held in the Wolfson Research Exchange and online. It will be a great place to introduce yourself and meet new / current GTAs or those who are hoping to teach next academic year.

GTA Tips and Tricks Workshop Series - Session #3 - 18th August

Mon, 18 Jul 2022 12:13:44 GMT

Are you thinking about making the next step in your academic research career and becoming a graduate teaching assistant? Do you have any anxieties, reservations, or questions about what teaching might entail, whether it's right for you, or how you should approach the application process?

��TV PTC are organising a series of regular sessions dedicated to answering all of these questions, hosted by current ��TV GTAs and sessional lecturers, in an honest, helpful community forum. Our next session will be held on August 18th, and will cover session planning, assessment and feedback to students.

It will be a great place to introduce yourself and meet new / current GTAs or those who are hoping to teach next academic year.

Sign up here to receive the meeting link and also to submit one question you have about session planning or assessment/feedback, to be answered in the session:

Deadline Extended: Journal of PGR Pedagogic Practice - Call For Abstracts - 8th July 2022

Thu, 30 Jun 2022 14:00:00 GMT

The ��TV Postgraduate Teaching Community are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the second issue of the Journal of PGR Pedagogic Practice (JPPP), centred around the theme of ‘Virtual, physical or somewhere in between: Postgraduate Pedagogies in the wake of the pandemic'. We invite article submissions for pieces discussing all aspects of the PGR teacher experience.

The pilot issue of the JPPP launched last autumn, and featured articles which reflected primarily on teaching during the pandemic, and the particular challenges (or opportunities) presented when teaching virtually. For the second issue of the JPPP, we encourage submissions which continue to reflect on virtual and hybrid teaching, but also those which consider the move back towards face-to-face teaching. We invite both short critical reflections, and more substantial research led pieces from all PGRs and ECRs who teach in any capacity and in any discipline at ��TV and beyond. We also welcome pieces from those who support the professional development of PGRs, and those involved with pedagogy outside of the typical university teaching structure, such as student-led research projects, continued professional development.