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Introduction to University Teaching
Second Edition
- Richard Bale - Imperial College London, UK
- Mary Seabrook - King's College London, UK
September 2025 | 264 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
This is essential reading for anyone new to teaching in higher education. It covers key aspects of teaching and learning for early career academics, postgraduate researchers, graduate teaching assistants, and professional services staff, including those working towards Advance HE fellowship recognition.
It provides practical strategies to enhance your planning, teaching and assessment, thoughtful overviews of inclusive teaching and facilitating group work, case studies from higher education professionals, and activities and reflection points applying educational principles to your own teaching, all linked to the Professional Standards Framework (PSF).
Second edition updates include:
- Each chapter is mapped against the Professional Standards Framework (2023).
- New case studies demonstrating good practice in learning and teaching contexts.
- Updated discussion on the use of technology, including the impact of generative AI.
- Deeper discussion on critically evaluating and developing your own teaching.
Chapter 1: Contextualising your teaching role
Chapter 2: Starting to teach in higher education
Chapter 3: Considering how we learn and how we teach
Chapter 4: Understanding course design and planning teaching
Chapter 5: Facilitating learning in small groups
Chapter 6: Teaching large groups and lecturing
Chapter 7: Supporting students in laboratories and during fieldwork
Chapter 8: Working with individual students and supervising projects
Chapter 9: Using digital technologies in learning and teaching
Chapter 10: Developing inclusive teaching practice
Chapter 11: Assessing and giving feedback
Chapter 12: Critically evaluating and developing your teaching
