Designing Effective Technical Teaching and Training
Teaching and Training Skills Development
◷ Half Day | £175 | 🌐︎ Online
Course Overview:
Build confidence in your teaching by designing purposeful learning activities and meaningful feedback that help your learners develop and succeed. Learn how to create clear, coherent learning opportunities for your students or trainees by building “constructive alignment” into your practice.
Who is it for?
For UK technical professionals in higher education and research settings who support learning, and want to enhance their teaching or training skills through effective planning and design.
Cost:
£175
Course Date:
Wednesday 2 December 2026, 9.30am – 12.30pm
Time commitment:
3-hour workshop, plus 1 hour of preparation and post-workshop reflection
Delivery format:
Online (MS Teams)
Why choose this course?
Course highlights:
• Learn how to practise and embed effective techniques for assessing and giving feedback.
• Explore real-life examples drawn from technicians’ own teaching and training practice.
• Examine assessment frameworks and feedback categories to support your learners’ development.
Proven results:
🏅 Trusted by more than 2,000 technicians from 150 UK organisations.
🏅 90%+ of participants rated our paid-for courses “Very good” for overall quality.
🏅 Paid programmes are strongly associated with deeper learning, greater confidence, and lasting behaviour change.
Course content:
• This workshop focuses on the technical context of teaching and training in higher education and research environments, using real-life examples drawn from technicians’ practices.
• Focusing on your current approaches, you’ll have the opportunity to practise and embed effective techniques for assessing and giving feedback.
• We’ll examine the purposes of using assessment frameworks and categories of feedback for supporting your learners’ development.
Learning outcomes:
By the end of this course, you’ll be able to:
• Critically reflect on your current teaching and training approach.
• Discuss the main concepts of the constructive alignment approach, including “learning outcome” and “social constructivism”.
• Practise building constructive alignment principles into your planning for learning.
• Consider how this approach could support the development of your practice and Advance HE professional recognition.
Course Leader
Lindsay Davies
Learning and Development Manager
This course aligns with Advance HE’s Professional Standard’s Framework (PSF) – the globally recognised standard in higher education.
FAQs
How do I book a training course?
Our training courses can be booked and paid for online through University of Nottingham Online Store.
You will be directed to the online stores and asked to make an account using your email address (you can use any email), you will also be asked to create a password.
Course bookings will close two working days before half day and one day courses and two weeks before cohort courses.
Your place on the course is confirmed only once full payment has been received.
What payment options are available?
The online store accepts credit, debit card or paypal.
Why is the course payment via University of Nottingham Online Store and not The UK Institute for Technical Skills & Strategy?
The UK Institute for Technical Skills and Strategy is hosted by the University of Nottingham.
To streamline the payment process, we are using University of Nottingham’s free online stores service to manage payments. It’s a secure payment method which is tried and tested. Receipts for organisations are available, please include your organisation name and VAT Reg number at the checkout.
The payment will appear as University of Nottingham on the payment card statement.
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