Cementing the Discipline
and Language Specialist
Relationship
Drs Natalie Lloyd and Reva Ramiah
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July 2013
What relationships ?
Engineering
Academics
Language T&L
Academics
Students
Tutors
Managers
Cementing the Relationship
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•Natalie Lloyd and unit teaching colleague; Prabir Sarker
•Miri academic staff
•Reva Ramiah and team; Clare Freeman
•Coordinator, English Language Development Faculty of Science and Engineering
•Lecturer The Learning Centre
•170 (+60 Miri) Civil 2nd Year Structural Analysis 267
•post graduate students and recent graduate
•Prof Hamid Nikraz
Delivery Change
Flipped classroom
• Short lead time
• Reduced lectures from 6
hours to 2 or 4
hours/week (over-all by
30%)
Workshop– student focused
active peer learning
Cementing the Relationship
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• more time ( 90 min) more sessions
(5/week)
• decreased max student number (av. 35)
• increased staff (1-2 academics and 3 of
5 tutors)
• abandoned “tutorial”
• new teaching spaces
Outcomes
Communication
• Embedding language across the curriculum
• University priority / personal priority / funding priority
• Workshop last year and T&L Forum Murdoch this year
• Reflected on the unit
Not sufficient to assess & expect outcome
• Must equip students to achieve learning outcome
• Need a language specialist
Cementing the Relationship
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Process of Embedment
Assess
and
Value
Practice
and
Review
Inform - Team
teaching
Lectures and
Workshops
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Reflect on attempts and
encourage peer-learning
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Constructive feedback on our
own work rather than reflections
of what other class members did
Equip the tutors
and students
Additional
sessions to
support
Exemplars
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Discipline and
Language
Team marking
One marking
rubric
Feedback / Outcomes / Observations
 Students expected to be doing mostly calculations
 Writing was unexpected and came as a bad shock
 Improved confidence and skill in written communication
 After performing poorly in the first essay but then doing well in the second
essay gave me a huge confidence boost
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Feedback / Outcomes / Observations
 Students value communication
 The communication also put a realistic aspect on structural analysis and allowed
for thought on why members were acting in ways that they were
 Workshops positive achieving ULO on communication
 The workshops in combination with good written examples on Blackboard helped
consolidate what was taught
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Feedback / Outcomes / Observations
Learning Centre Support
Additional Support Session
The language resources
provided on BlackBoard
Video lecture feedback on
assessment
Lecture (on essay structure)
Group work in the Workshop
Tutors’ support in
workshops
Cementing the Relationship
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2012
2013 Change
1. Learning outcomes in this unit are clearly identified
94
85
-9
2. The learning experiences help me to achieve
93
87
-6
3. The learning resources help me to achieve
85
76
-9
4. The assessment tasks evaluate my achievement
90
87
-3
5. Feedback on my work helps me to achieve
74
81
+7
6. The workload is appropriate
90
90
0
7. The quality of teaching helps me to achieve
81
81
0
8. I am motivated
92
84
-8
9. I make best use of the learning experiences
89
87
-2
10. I think about how I can learn more effectively
86
82
-4
11. Overall, I am satisfied with this unit
84
82
-2
Cementing the Relationship
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Cementing the Discipline and Language
Specialist Relationship
Change the workshop
class back to normal
tutorial class
Run a proper tutorial
Cementing the Relationship
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Cementing the Discipline and Language
Specialist Relationship
I expected the usual tutorial
session, but the workshops
were developed to be more
learning-effective, and
enhanced communication skills
Cementing the Relationship
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