Teach with CARE – improve your teaching practice

• Are you passionate about teaching in health and social care?
• Do you want to fine tune your teaching practice?
• Would you like to introduce innovations in your approach to learning?  

Teach with CARE is a four-day course combining online and in person teaching spread over several weeks.

The course considers different perspectives of adult learning and pedagogy.

The sessions introduce best practice techniques including planning; presenting; resourcing; questioning; assessing and evaluating teaching across the four days.

Learners will also look at online educational tools for effective teaching as well as evaluating best practice for face-to-face and online teaching. They will have the opportunity to plan and share a short teaching session and receive supportive feedback.

“Teach with CARE has been developed to secure quality end of life education for the future. Learners will develop teaching skills that are reflective of best practice, in keeping with St Christopher’s ambitions for education. Through Teach with CARE we aim to secure a future of palliative and end of life care education, that has a real impact on learners and people at this crucial phase of life.”

Maaike Vandeweghe, Head of Professional Programmes of Learning & CARE Co-Lead

“I really enjoyed the four days. I think that Teach with CARE should be mandatory for all (teaching colleagues), no matter how long they have been teaching. It gives everyone a platform from which they can be launched and a sense of what is expected of them.” 

Teach with CARE attendee

• Outline
• Topics
• Who is it for
• Tutors
• Programme

What will the course look like?

This course will involve:

• Online (days 2 and 3) and face-to-face (days 1 and 4) learning
• Exploration of academic and web articles
• A range of activity types including: live and video presentation; using interactive tools as both a learner and a teacher; discussion; pair and group work; self-study; critical thinking; reflection
• Completion of tasks before and after sessions

What will I learn?

• Theories of teaching and learning
• Consider the needs of adult learners and how to create engaging learning
• Consider implications for practice when teaching face-to-face or virtually
• Enhance and develop teaching practice

Who is it for?

The course is for anyone who wishes to improve their teaching practice face-to-face and online, particularly those in health and social care, but the learning from this course can be used in most settings.

Matt Tregellas

After graduating from the University of Sheffield, Matt moved to Japan where he began his career as an English language teacher. After three years, Matt returned to the UK where…

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Maaike Vandeweghe

Head of Professional Learning Programmes and CARE Co-Lead, St Christopher’s CARE Maaike graduated from the KATHO (Roeselare, Belgium) in 2002 as a general and mental health nurse. She started her…

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Deborah Holman

Deborah Holman has been working at St Christopher’s since 2002 in clinical practice, in care homes and in education. For 8 years prior to this she worked closely with St Christopher’s…

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Programme

• Exploring St Christopher’s CARE aims and Pedagogical Framework
• Considering different perspectives on adult learning
• Planning; presenting; resourcing; questioning; assessing and evaluating teaching in response to learner input and feedback
• Considering best practice for face-to-face and online teaching
• Using online tools for effective teaching
• Planning and sharing the rationale for a teaching session

Day 1

10.00	Welcome and Introductions St Christopher’s CARE and the Pedagogical Framework
11.00	Break
11.15	Theories of learning
12.15	Lunch
12.55	Adult learning and active learning
14.15	Reflection, evaluation and wrap up
15.00	Close

Day 2

10.00	The teaching context
11.15	Break
11.30	Constructive alignment, learning outcomes and Bloom’s taxonomy
12.40	Lunch
13.20	Online educational tools
14.20	Homework set up and reflection
15.00	Close

Day 3

10.00	The Conversational Framework Active learning activity share
11.15	Break
11.30	Anatomy of a teaching session Planning a teaching session
12.40	Lunch
13.20	Flipped learning
13.50	Multimedia design
14.30	Homework set up and reflection
15.00	Close

Day 4

10.00	Evaluation and reflection
11.15	Break
11.30	Making and delivering an activity with educational technology
12.45	Lunch
13.25	Power up PowerPoint and Zoom workshop
14.05	Putting it into practice
14.30	Assignment + Q&A, Final reflection, Next steps
15.00	Farewell