Transcript Impact through teaching - University of Manchester

Impact Through Teaching
Introduction
Dr Liz Andrew
Life Sciences
Dr Claire Stocks
Humanities
What does it mean to be a teaching fellow?
1. What does the teaching entail?
2. What skills do you need to be a good teaching
fellow?
Brainstorming
3. What other things might you be expected to do?
4. How can you improve your skills?
What does it mean to be a teaching fellow?
I teach undergraduate
and postgraduate students,
in both lecture and seminar format.
I convene the
first year language
course and have a
team of 11 tutors
and academics.
I supervise undergraduate and MA
dissertations, but not PhDs.
I am a personal tutor to approx 25
students.
TF comments 1
I am required to 2nd mark and
moderate coursework and exams for
other lecturers' courses.
I spend between 4 - 6 hours
actually teaching a week, though preparing
for these contact hours takes considerably longer.
Approx 1 day a week is spent seeing personal
tutees, dissertation students or students on my
courses on an individual basis.
The greatest part of my
teaching load is preparing
for seminars and lectures
and marking.
What does it mean to be a teaching fellow?
I have been able to
complete some research over
the past 2 years (during weekends
and holidays), and should have a
couple of publications coming out next
year. These are discipline based
rather than pedagogicallyfocused.
TF comments 2
I am continually learning
from my curriculum
development, my class
preparation and my
students of course.
I really enjoy teaching and
don't, as I believe some
academics do, see it as an
inconvenience.
Some of the Teaching Focused Lecturers in FLS
I’m extensively involved in the
delivery and design of
undergraduate courses for
medical, dental, nursing and life
science students.
I am a Field Course coordinator,
and take students to South Africa
I am developing an accredited
BSc in haematology.
FLS TFs
to study animal behaviour.
I’m an honorary EBL fellow by
the Centre of Excellence for
Enquiry Based Learning.
I coordinate medical clinical skills,
and pharmacology for nurses.
I recently co-wrote an new edition
of a pharmacology textbook.
I’m involved with development
and implementation of some
innovative projects: Peer Assisted
Study Scheme (PASS), and the
Life Science Enterprise Project for
Yr3 students
I run clinics for Yr3 optometry.
I’m a practical examiner for the
Association of British Dispensing
Opticians.
Teaching fellow job profiles
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Teaching and learning support
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Scholarship
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Communication
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Liaison and networking
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Managing people
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Teamwork
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Pastoral care
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Initiative, problem-solving and decision-making
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Planning and managing resources
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Sensory, physical and emotional demands
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Expertise
University of Exeter TF criteria
Teaching
and
Learning
Support
Appointments at this level may be required to:
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Design, develop and produce teaching and learning material and deliver
either across a range of modules or within a subject area.
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Use appropriate teaching, learning support and assessment methods.
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Supervise student projects and the academic elements of field trips and,
where appropriate, placements.
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Identify areas where current provision is in need of revision or improvement.
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Contribute to the planning, design and development of objectives and
material.
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Select appropriate assessment instruments and criteria, assess the work and
progress of students by reference to the criteria and provide constructive
feedback to students.
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Set, mark and assess work and examinations and provide feedback to
students.
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Ensure that module design and delivery comply with the quality standards
and regulations of the university and School.
Teaching & Learning Support
Scholarship
Appointments at this level may be required to:
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Engage in scholarship as required to support teaching activities.
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Extend, transform and apply knowledge acquired from scholarship to
teaching and appropriate external activities.
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Make presentations at national and international conferences and similar
events.
Scholarship, Communication
Communication
Appointments at this level may be required to:
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Routinely communicate complex and conceptual ideas to those with limited
knowledge as well as to peers using high level skills and a range of media.
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Prepare proposals and applications to external bodies, eg for funding and
accreditation purposes.
Liaison and Networking
Appointments at this level may be required to:
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Participate in and develop external networks, for example to contribute to:
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student recruitment,
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secure student placements,
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facilitate outreach work,
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generate income,
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build relationships for future activities.
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obtain consultancy project,
Networking,
Managing People
Managing people
Appointments at this level may be required to:
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Mentor colleagues with less experience and advise on personal development
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Depending on the area of work, supervise the work of others.
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Co-ordinate the work of others to ensure modules are delivered to the
standards required.
Teamwork
Appointments at this level may be required to:
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Act as a responsible team member, leading where agreed, and develop
productive working relationships with other members of staff.
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Co-ordinate the work of colleagues to identify and respond to students’
needs.
Teamwork, Pastoral Care
Pastoral care
Appointments at this level may be required to:
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Be responsible for the pastoral care of students within a specified area.
Initiative,
problem-solving
and
decision-making
Appointments at this level may be required to:
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Identify the need for developing the content or structure of modules with
colleagues and make proposals on how this should be achieved.
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Develop ideas for generating income and promoting the subject.
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Develop ideas and find ways of disseminating and applying the result of
scholarship.
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Initiative, problem-solving,
Exercise sole responsibility for the design and delivery of own modules and
assessment methods.
decision-making
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Collaborate with
procedures.
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Advise others on strategic issues such as student recruitment and marketing.
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Contribute to the accreditation of programmes and quality control processes.
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Tackle issues affecting the quality of delivery within scope of own level of
colleagues
on
the
implementation
of
assessment
responsibility, referring more serious matters to others, as appropriate.
Planning and managing resources
Appointments at this level may be required to:
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As module leader or tutor, co-ordinate with others (such as support staff or
academic colleagues) to ensure student needs and expectations are met.
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Manage projects relating to own area of work and the organisation of
external activities such as placements and field trips.
Planning & managing,
tabling, examinations, assessment of progress and student attendance.
Physical & emotional
Sensory, physical and emotional demands
demands, Expertise
Appointments at this level may be required to:
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Be responsible for administrative duties in areas such as admissions, time-
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Balance the pressures of teaching and administrative demands and
competing deadlines.
Expertise
Appointments at this level may be required to:
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Possess sufficient breadth or depth of specialist knowledge in the discipline
to develop teaching programmes and the provision of learning support.
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Use a range of delivery techniques to enthuse and engage students.
How can you improve your skills?
1. Get some practice now
2. Get a professional qualification:
a) Postgraduate
Certificate
in Higher
Improve
your
skills
Education (PGCHE)
b) Higher Education Academy (HEA)
Associate Fellowship
http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/