Date and time
: 18.11.26 at 10:00 to 13:15
Place: Tallinn University, room M-227
Scope:
4 academic hours
Target group: TLU academic staff
Group size
: 20
Free places:
12
Aim:
Explore the theory and practice of university learning and disciplinary literacy, and consider how to adapt active-learning strategies and discipline-specific reading, writing, speaking, and listening approaches to participants’ own teaching while maintaining academic integrity and rigor.
Learning outcomes:
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
1. Describe key considerations in the transition to university-level learning and students’ beliefs about learning.
2. Identify approaches to fostering motivation and engagement while maintaining academic integrity and rigor.
3. Consider how to adapt active-learning strategies to their own teaching contexts.
4. Explain what disciplinary literacy means and how reading, writing, speaking, and listening differ across academic fields.
5. Identify strategies, texts, and inquiry methods used in their own discipline.
6. Consider how to use disciplinary literacy approaches in their own discipline.
Structure of the training:
Participants explore disciplinary literacy, try strategies from a variety of disciplines, and work on disciplinary literacy approaches in their own disciplines.
Content
Deciphering the Discipline: Demystifying Reading and Writing in Your Field Disciplinary literacy; specialized reading, writing, speaking, and listening practices; strategies, texts, and inquiry methods used to create knowledge in academic disciplines; approaches for participants’ own disciplines.
Learning methods:
Discussion, active-learning activities, trying literacy strategies from a variety of disciplines, and work on approaches in participants’ own teaching contexts and disciplines.
Competence of the tutor:
Jodi Patrick Holschuh, Ph.D. is a professor in the graduate program for Postsecondary Student Success and an associate dean for faculty development in the College of Education at Texas State University. Her teaching focuses on developmental literacy, learning support, and disciplinary literacy from undergraduate to doctoral levels. Her research centers on disciplinary literacy, postsecondary reading and learning,
transitions to college learning, and literacy learning in the sciences. Her work has appeared in numerous journals, including Journal of Literacy Research,
Harvard Educational Review, Review of Research in Education, and Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy. She has co-authored several textbooks on
postsecondary student success including Effective College Learning, College Success Strategies, and College Rules!
Additional information:
We also highly recommend taking part in a previous workshop on 04.11.26:
Workshop for Facult 1: Active Learning in University
Contact person:
Mia Laurel Viilup
keskuse assistent
Õppimise ja õpetamise keskus
E-post: mviilup@tlu.ee