Developing your Teaching Workshops

Our Developing Your Teaching workshops aim to support your practice beyond Foundations in Teaching (FiT), equipping you with knowledge and ideas to enhance your student education practice and supporting your continuing development. The workshops are open to anyone involved in student education practice no matter what your role is.

These workshops cover a wide range of student education practice topics including designing and delivering teaching, supporting and guiding students, assessment and feedback, inclusive teaching practice, and evaluation of practice. They will highlight current approaches and theories in pedagogy and teaching to help you stay up to date and engage with new practice, introduce you to practical strategies you can implement in your own practice.

The workshops are all stand-alone and some may be of more relevance to you than others, so you can book onto the ones most useful for you, your role, and areas of development. Some workshops will be repeated and others will be one-offs.

Workshop facilitators

Some workshops will be delivered by the Student Education Development (OD&PL), and some will be co-developed and delivered with other teams including the Skills@ Library Learning Development team, the Disability Advisory team, and the Student Partnerships Advisory team, as well as academic colleagues. This will give you the opportunity to connect with colleagues right across the university from a range of teams and disciplines to learn from others.

Calendar of Events (2026/27)

7 September 2026 - Transitioning to University: Supporting the Engagement of Disabled Students

Session details: 11am-12.30pm (Online)
Who is it for? Suitable for all staff and PGRs involved in teaching and supporting
learning.
Facilitators: Carly Miller

The journey from school to university can be challenging for all students, but there are additional barriers for disabled students which create further demands on their time compared to non-disabled students. This session will explain some of the key differences between school and university disability support and the additional steps disabled students need to take to ensure support is in place for them, helping to increase your understanding of their experiences.

There may be delays in disability support being set up, so this session will also provide practical guidance on the steps to take and how you can support a student who discloses a disability but has not yet registered with Disability Services or does not yet have a support plan in place. It will also share practical guidance on managing conversations about referring students to Disability Services and other services that may be able to provide useful support, for example Skills@Library.

16 September 2026 - Embedding academic language and literacy work in your teaching

Session details: 10-11.30am (Online)
Who is it for? Suitable for all staff and PGRs involved in teaching and supporting
learning.
Facilitators: Bernice Bond and Laetitia Monbec

How can you enhance the confidence and attainment of the diverse student body in your School? This workshop explores the embedding of academic language and literacy work in disciplinary teaching as one possible means. In the session you will reflect on an assessment from a module you teach or supporting learning on, to identify opportunities for explicit awareness raising of expected ‘products’ and processes. You will also consider ‘quick wins’ and practical ways of bringing academic literacy development into module teaching and learning support.

The session will offer useful thinking tools for your pedagogic practice, tools that can also be used for bigger picture programme, module, and teaching planning and design.

In preparation for the session, please:

Identify a module you teach or support learning on (e.g.) where you feel students could be doing better on the assessment.
Select an example of a (strong) passing piece of student work on this module and bring it along to the session (either printed or digital, but ensure it is anonymised and that you have the permission to bring it)
Bring a copy of the module overview (or be able to access it via Minerva)

13 October 2026 - Supporting Students to Recognise Professional Skills

Session details: 1pm-2.30pm (Online)
Who is it for? Suitable for all staff and PGRs involved in teaching and supporting
learning
Facilitators: Rebecca Thorley

This interactive workshop explores how colleagues can help students move beyond simply listing skills to articulating the value of their disciplinary learning. Drawing on a PGCAP Action Research project, participants will explore practical ways to use reflective activities and assessment to help students connect subject knowledge, critical thinking and professional capabilities, and communicate these effectively in applications, interviews and workplace contexts.

Participants will leave with practical ideas and approaches they can apply within their own teaching and assessment to help students recognise and confidently articulate how their degree learning prepares them for professional life.

5 November 2026 - Storytelling as a Tool to Engage Students and Enhance Understanding

Session details: 1pm-2.30pm (Online)
Who is it for? Suitable for all staff and PGRs involved in teaching and supporting
learning
Facilitators: Keith Livingstone

This interactive workshop explores how storytelling can engage audiences and reinforce key learning concepts through anecdotes, analogies and authentic case studies. Participants will explore the fundamentals of creating engaging stories, mapping narratives to learning outcomes and using different forms of media to enhance their impact.

Participants will leave with practical storytelling techniques they can apply within their own teaching to create more engaging and memorable learning experiences.

18 November 2026 - Encouraging Academic Integrity: How Do We Talk about Good Academic Practice with Our Students?

Session details: 1pm-2pm (Online)
Who is it for? Suitable for all staff and PGRs involved in teaching and supporting
learning
Facilitators: Emily Haikney

In this online session we will explore how academic integrity forms a key part of our teaching and assessment practices. We will discuss the Leeds approach to developing students’ understanding of academic integrity and think about how teaching staff can support students to demonstrate good study practices, reducing the risk of plagiarism or misconduct. We will look at some of the resources we can use in our conversations with students, including online tutorials, discussion prompts and ideas for activities. We’ll also discuss how academic integrity issues arise during assessment, and how they should be addressed.

1 December 2026 - Reducing reasonable adjustments in favour of inclusive pedagogies

Session details: 10am-11.30am (On campus)
Who is it for? Suitable for all staff and PGRs involved in teaching and supporting
learning
Facilitators: Rachel Myers

This interactive workshop explores how inclusive learning environments can reduce reliance on individual reasonable adjustments and benefit all students. Participants will consider the theoretical and legislative drivers for inclusive pedagogy, how common adjustments can be embedded into learning design, and strategies for overcoming barriers to implementation. Participants will leave with practical approaches they can apply to make their own teaching and learning more inclusive and accessible.

Contribute and deliver your own workshop

We would also welcome sessions delivered by anyone involved in student education practice at Leeds to give you the opportunity to showcase your practice to colleagues. This does not need to be connected to research and can be CPD based on your practice. If you would be interested in delivering a Developing Your Teaching session on a topic of your choice, please get in contact with [email protected] and include "Developing Your Teaching" in the email subject.