The Heriot-Watt New to Teaching Network is a community of practice facilitated by the Learning and Teaching Academy. It is designed to provide support for all those within their first three years of teaching and supporting learners at Heriot-Watt. It will meet monthly to explore and share practice and to support members as they work through the early stages of their teaching careers.

Each month we will be running two sessions on a single theme (at times to suit staff across all our campuses) with the expectation that participants will attend just one of these sessions. The sessions will be discursive in nature and will offer you the opportunity to share challenges and successes in your teaching with other Network members and to gain ideas and resources to support you in developing your teaching practice. A member of staff from the Learning and Teaching Academy will facilitate each session.

This New to Teaching Network session will focus on “Assessment from all angles”.  In this session we will consider how we can best support our students in preparing for assessment as well as spend time focussing on our role in designing assessments.