Useful Links

Teaching Teaching and Understanding Understanding

Click this link to view a 20-minute award-winning short film about teaching at University.

The Write Site

The Write Site is an online environment designed to support the development of academic writing skills. It focuses on the academic and professional writing skills most relevant to undergraduates.

This site will support your teaching by:

• assisting students' developmental and/or remedial learning needs related to academic writing
• providing a consistent metalanguage for discussing aspects of academic writing with your students
• facilitating greater precision and clarity in your feedback to students
• relieving you of repetitive explanation and remediation for the most common writing problems

Institute for Teaching and Learning

The Institute for Teaching and Learning offers a range of professional development programs for both new and experienced university teachers. You may be interested in enrolling in the Principles and Practice Program, which is an orientation to the Principles and Practice of University Teaching and Learning. The Graduate Certificate in Educational Studies (Higher Education) builds on your learning in the Principles and Practice Program and includes an introduction to notions of scholarship and inquiry in teaching and learning.

There are many other resources on the ITL site designed to support you in your role as a university teacher:

• The Feedback for Teachers site provides resources to help you gather feedback about your teaching and your students' learning
• Synergy is the University publication designed to support critical and scholarly discussion of university teaching and learning.

Student Services

There are a number of services provided by the University that you may like to draw to the attention of your students. These services include:

• the Accommodation Service
• the Careers Centre
• a Child Care Information Office
• the Counselling Service
• Disability Services
• the Financial Assistance Office
• the Learning Centre
• the Mathematics Learning Centre

University policies

As a tutor, there are some University policies that you need to be aware of. We have included the links to these policies so that you can download them and familiarise yourself with them.

• Academic Honesty (plagiarism) in Coursework
• University of Sydney (Coursework) Rule 2000 (as amended)
• Discrimination Prevention Policy - your rights and responsibilities

Faculty of Arts Teaching and Learning Network

The main role of the Faculty of Arts Teaching and Learning Network is to support improvements in teaching quality and learning experience in the Faculty. Please visit the website to find out more about Faculty Teaching and Learning Awards, seminars, and projects.

Faculty of Education and Social Work Division of Learning and Teaching

The Division of Learning and Teaching implements the processes and procedures that have been recommended by the faculty's Learning and Teaching Committee to foster and recognise a strong dynamic and innovative learning and teaching culture.