Casual academics- Teaching in SOPHI

Tutors' Development Program

The Arts Faculty invites all tutors to register for the Tutors' Development Program. The program is jointly designed and run by the Faculty of Teaching and Learning Committee and the University's Institute for Teaching and Learning. Your participation will be recognised witha certificate that can be added to your CV.

Modules offered are:

• Peer Observation of Teaching
• Group Work
• Assessment

For more information and to register for the Tutor's Development Program, please go to the Arts Tutors' Development Program website

Your supervisor

The person with whom you will work most closely is your unit of study coordinator. Your coordinator will assign you to your tutorials and/or lectures, brief you about the unit, and give you copies of relevant unit resources. These may include the Guide/Outline, which contains detailed information about the unit of study, and the Reader. (If required, tutors are usually expected to pay for their own textbooks).

If you have any questions, concerns or difficulties regarding any aspect of your work as a tutor, you should talk with your unit of study coordinator.
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WebCT

Many units of study now include online components using WebCT, a Learning Management System which provides a variety of built in tools to teach and manage students.

How do I access WebCT?
You access WebCT with a username and password called your UniKey account.

If you need access to WebCT but don't have a UniKey account, you will need to have one created by IT Assist Helpdesk, Located on the Darlington Campus in the University Computing Centre, Boundary Lane. Helpdesk contact Details.

What you need
You will need to take:

• photoID and
• a pay slip

Haven't been paid yet, but need WebCT?
If you require a UniKey prior to receiving your first payslip, please contact the SOPHI finance team. Email with the subject ‘UniKey request’ and provide your full name, staff and/or Student ID, department, and email address.

Your UniKey username and password should arrive by internal mail 3 three days and will placed in the 'Tutors and Postgraduates' pigeonhole for your Department.

Lectures and tutorials

Tutorials
Tutorials begin in the second week of semester. Contact your unit of study coordinator to confirm your class lists, class times and venues.

Lectures
You are encouraged to attend all lectures in the unit of study in which you are teaching, as part of your preparation. In small group teaching situations, it is obviously beneficial that you know what your students have been exposed to in lectures.

Student feedback tells us that students like tutors to attend lectures. They see such attendance as a sign of their teachers’ commitment to their students.

Attending lectures enhances your ability to:

• promote your students’ active, independent critical engagement with the lecture content,
• devise productive starting points for tutorial discussions,
• assist students with any problems they may have with the lecture material,
• when marking, make informed judgements on the quality and originality of students’ oral presentations, essays, and exams.

Sick? Can't teach?

Contact your unit of study coordinator and the (+612 9351 2862) as early as possible to arrange for another staff member or to notify students of your absence.