Course Description:

Active listening skills can be as important to effective teaching as other communication skills such as explaining and asking questions. However listening skills generally receive less attention.

Used well, active listening skills can assist you in:

• Getting an accurate picture of yourstudents' understanding

• Developing good relationships with students

• Enabling students to express and articulate their thoughts fully and thereby to improve their learning

Course Tutor:

Alan Mortiboys has extensive experience working in education and staff development, both in the UK and abroad. For the past 25 years he has worked in Educational Development in Higher Education. Most recently he was at Birmingham City University as Professor of Educational Development, leading the Postgraduate Certificate in Education programme for academic staff. He now works independently providing staff and educational development for professionals in education, healthcare and other public sectors. Alan is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. His publications include How to be an Effective Teacher in Higher Education (Open University Press 2010) and Teaching with Emotional Intelligence (Routledge 2012).

Learning Outcomes:

This sessions invites partic https:// ipants to:

• Practice active listening skills

• Review their current use to these skills in their teaching

• Explore how they could develop and use these skills further, both with groups and one-to-one

Who should attend?

This session will be of interest to anyone looking to develop their use of active listening skills in order to enhance students' learning. 

Other courses by Alan Mortiboys:

Effective Classroom Management / Helping Your Students Make the Most of Feedback / Making the Most of Language:Written and Verbal Communications / What the Best Teachers Do / Inspirational Teaching

UK Professional Standards Framework (UKPSF)

This workshop is particularly relevant to these dimensions of the framework:

Find out more about the Framework here

• Areas of Activity: A2

• Core Knowledge: K2; K3

• Professional Values: V1; V2 .

Please bring your own lunch or be prepared to buy lunch on campus

Pre-Requisites Please bring your own lunch or be prepared to buy lunch on campus