Foundations of Teaching, Learning & Scholarship for STEM PGTAs & Early-Career Teaching Academics in HE.

Postgraduate Teaching Assistants (PGTAs) and early career teaching academics (such as PDRAs with teaching responsibilities) play a vital role in delivering high-quality teaching across engineering and STEM programmes. At institutions such as UCL, where programmes are academically rigorous, interdisciplinary, often pedagogically innovative and with high student numbers, consistent and well-prepared teaching support and scholarship is essential to student success.

This three-day course provides a structured introduction to effective teaching and methods for self-evaluation in engineering and STEM contexts in higher education. It is designed specifically for PGTAs and early career practitioners who are teaching, or intending to teach, in laboratories, workshops, tutorials and project-based modules. The course recognises the particular challenges of teaching within complex programme structures such as the UCL Integrated Engineering Programme (IEP), where project-based learning, interdisciplinary collaboration and modelling-intensive curricula demand clarity, alignment and confident facilitation.