Mission

The Teaching Support Centre offers a large range of services and resources to support all those involved in teaching: teachers, doctoral assistants, post-docs, sections and students. We have an evidence-based, customized and confidential approach. We work with teachers and teaching teams on a one-to-one basis in order to understand their context and to help them generate possibilities which are realistic and constructive, given their content, their goals and their constraints. We see teachers as the drivers of teaching improvement, and we work with teachers to support them in making the best professional judgements. We review international research on teaching and learning engineering and science and this serves as the basis for our work. This means teachers are provided with a solid foundation which they can use when forming their professional judgements. We also work with teachers to collect data from student feedback questionnaires, classroom observations and reviews of course materials. These provide teachers with a strong foundation for making pedagogical judgements. We offer pedagogical support both to teachers that are experiencing problems with a course, and to those who find courses are going well but who would nonetheless like to innovate or improve.