These virtual events will be tailored by individual subjects and so they are the perfect opportunity for you to receive tailored support directly from a relevant university tutor and the PGCE Admissions Officer.
To register your interest please email: pgce.admissions@education.ox.ac.uk
Please find below the presentations for the next STEM Discussion Group – on November 11th 11-2 in room K/L (this is on the right hand side of the Bruner building across the road from the department). Please email Karen.skilling@education.ox.ac.uk to join the group and receive the Teams invitation.
Kyla Smith (3rd Year DPhil)
Title:
The home-field advantage: what teaching out-of-field means for high school science and mathematics teachers
Abstract:
Out-of-field teaching occurs when there is a mis-match between a teacher’s expertise and what they are teaching. Within the sciences, biology, chemistry, and physics each have their own specialised knowledge, solution methods, experimental techniques, jargon, and symbols. Therefore, teachers trained in one science specialty may feel out-of-field when teaching another science specialty. This study investigates teachers’ self-efficacy in the different science specialties and compares the teacher self-efficacy of in- versus out-of-field teachers. The study adopts social cognitive theory as a theoretical framework in an effort to centre and value the voices, experiences, and knowledge of teachers. This presentation will discuss some of the issues faced by of those teaching out-of-field.
Lara Karassellos (2nd Year DPhil)
Presentation title: Social justice and technology: Reflections on the use of online and hybrid education to support equitable and inclusive higher education practices in South African universities
Abstract: The context of my DPhil study is widening participation in South African higher education, where online education has been presented as one of the possible strategies for supporting an increase in formal access on a mass scale. It is important to balance this formal access with epistemological access to the university, an aspect with which most students from disadvantaged home and schooling backgrounds struggle, evident in the high attrition and low graduation rates in the country. These inequalities have been further exacerbated by the recent lockdowns and hurried shift to emergency remote teaching and learning, illuminating severe digital and other inequalities, as well as significant gaps in digital literacies for many students. In this presentation I will share some initial reflections from my study on equitable and inclusive online pedagogic strategies, including considerations of low-tech, data-light, and asynchronous methods, and universal design for learning (UDL) principles.
The University of Oxford’s PGCE Office will be attending the UK Government’s Train to Teach event. The Train to Teach events will include:
- expert advisers, teachers and training providers are available to answer your specific questions
- chat with current teachers and find out what a day in the life of a teacher is really like
- get one-to-one advice from our teaching experts on your application, including advice on your personal statement and interview tips
- connect with local teacher training providers and find out more about the courses they offer
- presentations which provide a step-by-step guide on how to get into teaching, the application process and funding your training
To register for the event please visit this website.
The University of Oxford’s PGCE Office will be attending the UK Government’s Train to Teach event. The Train to Teach events will include:
- expert advisers, teachers and training providers are available to answer your specific questions
- chat with current teachers and find out what a day in the life of a teacher is really like
- get one-to-one advice from our teaching experts on your application, including advice on your personal statement and interview tips
- connect with local teacher training providers and find out more about the courses they offer
- presentations which provide a step-by-step guide on how to get into teaching, the application process and funding your training
To register for the event please visit this website. This is an in-person event and registration is required.
This interactive workshop, funded by the Nuffield Strategic Fund, will be criticially discussing issues around climate change, trust, and the sources of information teachers access.
One aim of the day is to shape a larger research project that will improve our understandings of the sources of information used for teaching climate change and create opportunities for collaborations between climate researchers and school geography teachers.
The outline for the day is below, and we hope that you will be able to participate in all of this. However, please do also feel free to drop in and out for particular sessions as your availability allows. The structure has particularly been designed so that teaching colleagues who are unable to come earlier will still be able to join for the 4.30pm keynote and Teach Meet.
9.30 – 10.00: Welcome & coffee
10.00 – 10.15: Introduction to the workshop & intentions for the future project
10.15 – 11.00: Professor Myles Allen keynote: Climate Change and Education, Q&A
11.00-11.30: (All) Introductions & 2 min ‘what I might be interested in at this point’
11.30 – 12.30: Critical discussion of key papers on Climate Change Education (to be circulated beforehand)
12.30 – 1.15: Lunch
1.15 – 2.45: Critical review of selected climate change teaching resources in geography (If you have any specific teaching resources – primary or secondary – that you would like to propose for these discussions please do email them for consideration)
2.45 – 3.00: Tea & Coffee
3.00 – 4.00: Generating research questions and initial design ideas for suture project
4.00 – 4.30: Refreshments (plus papers/questions/images for comment)
4.30 – 5.00: Climate change keynote: ‘Climate Change Education in Schools’
5.00 – 6.00: Teach meet – sharing teaching resources/strategies/plans on climate change teaching, and beginning with an introduction to the Oxford Deanery (to propose a 5 minute slot please email a title; proposals welcomed across primary and secondary geography)
6.00 – 6.30: Drinks and close
To confirm your attendance please email steven.puttick@education.ox.ac.uk including details of any dietary requirements.
This event is being run by the Department for Education and the Environmental Change Institute (https://www.eci.ox.ac.uk/)
Event Information
This will be an open forum event for geography teachers to come and share ideas and resources on the identified question: ‘What does a broad curriculum look like at Key Stage 3 and how can we promote passion for the subject?’
The event will take place as an open discussion and sharing of best practice.
If attendees would like to bring along teaching materials to discuss and share, this would be welcomed.
To reserve your place either click the ‘Register Now’ option on this page or email nicola.warren-lee@education.ox.ac.uk or dtod4630@burford.oxon.sch.uk
A collaboration between Burford School, Oxfordshire Teaching Schools Alliance, the Department of Education and the Oxford Education Deanery.
ABOUT THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
In 2019, the University of Oxford’s Department of Education celebrates the 100th year since the passing of a statute creating what was known in 1919 as the University Department for the Training of Teachers. To celebrate our centenary a year-long series of activities will be delivered to address some of the department’s top initiatives for 2019, answer some of the big questions facing education today and to reveal the advancements the department has made to the study of and research in the field of education. Join us as we mark our 100th year and discover more about our anniversary here.
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Free CPD to support subject development and teaching of the Age of Revolutions: Embedding intent, implementation and impact
This event is in partnership with Magdalen College and The Historical Association and open to all local history teachers.
Places are limited and allocated on a first come first served basis.
To reserve your place please email Jason Todd at: jason.todd@education.ox.ac.uk- with ‘OHTN’ subject header. Stating name(s) and dietary requirements- lunch is provided.
Event programme
9 – 9.30 Registration
9.30 – 10.30 ‘Talkin ’bout a revolution‘
Professor Joanna Innes (Somerville, Oxford)
Joanna Innes was from 1990-2000, co-editor of the journal Past and Present. She has contributed to the revitalisation of eighteenth-century British history and is an expert on the changing attitudes to and practices associated with democracy. Her interests and commitment to collaboration have extended to work on Latin America and the Caribbean.
(HA members welcome)
11 – 12 ‘To the barricades: restoration, resistance and rebellion.’
Professor Mark Philp & Professor Kate Astbury (Warwick University)
Mark co-directs with Joanna ‘Re-imagining Democracy 1750-1850’ see www.re-imaginingdemocracy.com. Kate works on the history of French theatre and caricature. They worked together to create the https://www.100days.eu website charting the return to power of Napoleon in 1815. In this session they will highlight the work of a new online project ‘to the barricades’. This project will host national timelines with key events and occasions, worked up with objects, pictures, manuscripts and songs, to present the (re-)emergence of protest and contestation in the UK and the restored states of Europe.
12 – 1.15 Let them eat Lunch (courtesy of Magdalen College) and chance to network
1.15 – 4 ‘Refreshing the Age of Revolutions: taking scholarship into the classroom.’
Katie Hall, Education consultant and author
Chelsey David, HA Teacher Fellow and Humanities Coordinator D‘Overbroeck’s College
This session will be packed full of teaching ideas for topics in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that you might have missed at Key Stage 3, 4 or 5. It will also focus on the power of giving classroom teachers time to improve their subject knowledge of a period and the results of engaging with recent historical scholarship. Katie and Chelsey have both been involved in the recent Age of Revolutions Teacher Fellowship & will share their findings and resources, as well as advice for anyone who would like to be involved in one of the upcoming Historical Association Teacher Fellowships.
ABOUT THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
In 2019, the University of Oxford’s Department of Education celebrates the 100th year since the passing of a statute creating what was known in 1919 as the University Department for the Training of Teachers. To celebrate our centenary a year-long series of activities will be delivered to address some of the department’s top initiatives for 2019, answer some of the big questions facing education today and to reveal the advancements the department has made to the study of and research in the field of education. Join us as we mark our 100th year and discover more about our anniversary here.
To receive more event details from the Department of Education, join our mailing list.
This is an opportunity for teachers across the department’s partner schools to share the outcomes of the small-scale action research projects and teacher enquiries that they have been engaged in over the course of the academic year 2017-18.
Some have been working directly with a University-based academic supporting their investigation, while others have been working in the context of school-based CPD programmes with support and advice from the Deanery.
The evening will run ‘Teach-Meet’ style with lots of short presentations and plenty of opportunities to ask questions and exchange ideas. The event is open to any interested teacher – keen to learn from teachers’ own research.
No booking is required, but if you would like to present a small-scale inquiry of your own at the event, please contact: katharine.burn@education.ox.ac.uk.
Katharine is Director of the department’s Education Deanery – a resource, which facilitates the continuing professional development of teachers at all career stages in local schools through supporting their engagement in and with research.
To find out more visit: www.educationdeanery.ox.ac.uk/
Professor David Andrich, a world leader in Rasch modelling, will give a workshop on the background and implementation of Rasch Measurement Theory.
The workshop will be delivered in three sessions. The first session will cover the theoretical background, the second session will run participants through the implementation and interpretation of a Rasch analysis in the RUMM2030 software, and in the third session, participants will be guided in analysing their own data using this software.