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
How MT20 online courses will run
Wednesday, 30 September 2020 to Tuesday, 15 December 2020, 12.10pm - 5pm
This page describes how our MSD Skills online training courses will run this term, what to expect, and how to access pre-work and other course materials.
Links to online Statistics courses
Thursday, 01 October 2020 to Thursday, 31 December 2020, 12am - 1am
MSD Skills are unable to provide our 'Introduction to statistics' training during MT20, but we have listed some alternative online statistics resources here.
Advancing Teaching and Learning Programme
Thursday, 08 October 2020 to Wednesday, 30 June 2021, 3pm - 6pm
Ready to develop your teaching skills at Oxford? The new Advancing Teaching and Learning Programme, starting Jan 2021 and leading to the award of Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, is now open to staff who meet the application criteria.
Preparing for learning and teaching at Oxford ONLINE
Monday, 07 December 2020, 10am to 1pm
***THIS COURSE IS NOW FULLY BOOKED*** This online MSD Skills Training course is suitable for postgraduate research students and postdoctoral early career researchers in the Division who are intending to teach in the University and HE more generally. This course contains pre-work you will need to complete before the live session.
Large group and lecturing ONLINE
Tuesday, 23 February 2021 to Friday, 05 March 2021, 9.30am - 12pm
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.
Preparing for learning and teaching at Oxford ONLINE
Tuesday, 16 March 2021, 2pm to 5pm
This online MSD Skills Training course is suitable for postgraduate research students and postdoctoral early career researchers in the Division who are intending to teach in the University and HE more generally. This course contains pre-work you will need to complete before the live session.
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), which will commence in HT21. 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.
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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