Skills Training Courses: Teaching Skills
Our teaching skills courses are designed to provide you with the training requirements and knowledge you will need to undertake teaching in higher education and within Oxford University. You can access other course categories from the Courses by topic page, and find supporting material on our Resources page. Can't find what you're looking for? Contact us.
Upcoming Teaching Skills courses
Advancing Teaching and Learning Programme
Thursday, 08 October 2020 to Friday, 01 December 2023, 3pm - 6pm
Ready to develop your teaching skills at Oxford? The Advancing Teaching and Learning Programme leading to the award of Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, is now open to staff who meet the application criteria.
MSD PLTO
Wednesday, 30 June 2021 to Tuesday, 01 August 2023, 12am - 12pm
MSD’s Preparing for Learning and Teaching at Oxford (PLTO) has changed! You have the choice of attending specific teaching streams – ‘Taught Masters’ or ‘Tutorials’.
PLTO Masters teaching ONLINE
Wednesday, 17 May 2023, 9am to 1pm
This online MSD Skills Training course is for postgraduate research students and postdoctoral early career researchers in the Division who want to teach on taught Masters programmes in the University and HE more generally.
PLTO Tutorials Online
Thursday, 18 May 2023, 9am to 1pm
This online MSD Skills Training course is suitable for postgraduate research students and postdoctoral early career researchers in the Division who want to teach tutorials in the University and HE more generally.
Large group and lecturing ONLINE
Monday, 22 May 2023 to Wednesday, 31 May 2023, 9.30am - 12.30pm
This live online workshop delivered in four separate three-hour sessions and is suitable for MSD postgraduate research students and early career researchers looking to teach and wanting to learn the principles and practices of effective lecturing and group sessions.
OTHER Teaching Skills Courses
Related courses offered elsewhere in the University, and our other teaching skills courses running in other terms.
TEACHING OPPORTUNITIES FOR THOSE WHO HAVE COMPLETED MSD PLTO CAN BE FOUND HERE.
PLEASE NOTE: Developing Learning and Teaching (DLT) has been replaced by Advancing Teaching and Learning (ATL). Once you have completed PLTO you will need to apply for ATL directly through the CTL website. These pages contain all the relevant information and application process for ATL. If would like to apply for the ATL programme but cannot access the ATL webpages because you do not have single sign on (SSO) please contact yonas.tita@ctl.ox.ac.uk for further information.
Experimental Psychology run Preparing for Teaching in Psychology (PTP) twice a year, which is a subject-specific form of PLTO. For further information, please email maryann.noonan@psy.ox.ac.uk
BIOCHEMISTRY - An alternative PLTO course is run in the Department of Biochemistry and is compulsory for all wishing to teach within this department. If you are interested in attending the Biochemistry course please email mark.wormald@bioch.ox.ac.uk
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