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Newcastle Educators 2023 – 2024 Programme – Progressive Curriculum approaches

The next Newcastle Educators session will take place on Monday 13th November2023 in Henry Daysh Building 1.06 Learning Lab.

Join us for this interactive session focusing on: Progressive Curriculum approaches 12.00 – 1.30, with snack lunch provided!

In this session participants will:

  • Hear from colleagues who have embedded Sustainable Development Goals across a programme in the School of Natural and Environmental Sciences
  • Gain ideas and suggestions to further develop sustainable curriculum design in your own practice
  • Hear how colleagues are working across the university to embed employability skills in their curriculum

Please sign up to the event via this MS Form.

Remember to save the date in your diary!

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Newcastle Educators – Using design thinking in the classroom

Newcastle Educators logo consisting of 3 stick figures with their arms around each other and the description: A peer community of educators at Newcastle University

Thursday 14 September 2023

Henry Daysh Building – 6.16 PGR Training Space

12:00 – 13:30 (with snack lunch provided!)

Newcastle Educators 2023 – 2024 Programme

Join us for this interactive session and by the end of this session participants will:

  • Have a basic understanding of design thinking and its potential in the classroom,
  • Have an idea how you might apply an aspect of design thinking in your own classroom,
  • Be invited to join our community of practice of educators interested using design thinking in the classroom.

The session will be delivered by Yulia Dzenkovska and Lucy Hatt from Newcastle University Business School.

Sign up for the session here

Yulia Dzenkovska is a Lecturer in Marketing (NUBS) specialising in services marketing and service innovation. Her interest in design thinking dates from her time here as a PhD student when she took part in a careers service design thinking event (EIT Health Innovation Competition) and won first prize!  Since then, she has developed her interest in this approach and incorporated it into her module “New Product and Service Development” with great success.  She is also the Employability Lead for her Subject Group.

Lucy Hatt is a Senior Lecturer in Leadership Development and Entrepreneurship (NUBS), with a particular interest in the value of the threshold concept approach for entrepreneurship, enterprise and employability educators.  She is the DPD for the MBA and leads modules on Innovation, Change and Enterprise which incorporate Design Thinking approaches.