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Sally Brown Institute for Learning and Teaching AISHE seminar Dublin January 2002

Professional development and accreditation of HE teaching/learning support staff: the UK experience. Sally Brown Institute for Learning and Teaching AISHE seminar Dublin January 2002. What does professionalising HE teaching mean in practice?.

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Sally Brown Institute for Learning and Teaching AISHE seminar Dublin January 2002

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  1. Professional development and accreditation of HE teaching/learning support staff: the UK experience. Sally Brown Institute for Learning and Teaching AISHE seminar Dublin January 2002

  2. What does professionalising HE teaching mean in practice? • Designing, delivering, assessing and evaluating the curriculum appropriately • Achieving adequate (or better?) standards of performance • Demonstrating a commitment to students’ achievement • Demonstrating continuing self development • Adhering to relevant values eg recognising diversity, EO, promoting students’ learning etc

  3. Carole Baume in OU course materials for H852 defines professionalism in teaching as: • Undertaking scholarship of teaching, searching out and applying new ideas and new understandings about how students learn and how you could better help the process

  4. professionalism in teaching… • Continuing to reflect in, on and for action in your teaching, ensuring that you continue to learn from your teaching and apply this learning to your future teaching; • Applying a code of ethics to your work

  5. Dearing Committee motivation for establishing the ILT • Higher Education unique in having no professional standards for learning and teaching • Need for demonstration and achievement of professionalism • Major challenges for learning and teaching in coming decades prompt changes of approach • Need to raise the status of teaching and learning support in HE

  6. ILT: Core Functions • Self-regulation of professional standards in learning and teaching in higher education • Provision of enhancement opportunities for members • Creation/facilitation of inclusive community of practice in teaching and learning support • Fostering growth of evidence-based practice in T&LS and expansion of the evidence base - pedagogic research & action research • Representation of the practitioner’s voice in national debates on learning and teaching in HE

  7. Joining the ILT: Based on five broad areas • Teaching and the support of learning; • Design and planning of learning activities/programmes of study; • Assessment and giving feedback to learners • Developing effective learning environments and learner support systems • Reflective practice and personal development

  8. Two categories of membership • Membership (ILTM) for those who can cover all five areas with accreditation or three year’s experience (pro rata for part-timers) • Associateship for those with more limited breadth(2 out of 4 areas + reflection) or length of experince

  9. Entry via accredited programmes • 98 programmes accredited by ILT lead to direct membership, with 30+ in pipeline • Accreditation agreements with SEDA and professional bodies including UKCC, CCETSW, BPS (DipAP) • Agreement soon to be reached with GTCs

  10. Initial entry route for experienced staff • Experienced staff can join by completing a reflective account supported by two referees • Account comprises 3,000 words (max) in which applicants describe not just what but how and why they do what they do • Successor route in development

  11. Take up to date • Approaching 12,000 applications; • Old and new universities equally represented; • Applications from colleagues across the age and seniority range; • Renewals rates very encouraging; • High recognition across the UK

  12. Services to members • Journal: 4 issues out, now 3 times per year • Books: Own ‘Effective learning’ series and discounts/special offers • Newsletter: regular instrument for communication • Members’ Resource Area: fortnightly updates • Members’ forums: 15 Regional and topic-specific to date, full programmes for 2002 • Conferences: Annual, fully subscribed, well-regarded • Small grants scheme: 16 grants to make a difference

  13. The ILT offers: • Recognition of professional skills • Resources for the development of teaching and learning support • Relationships: community of teaching and learning practice • Responsibility for keeping standards in the hands of the academic/learning support community

  14. Where next? • Aiming to continue to maximise UK take up; • Consideration of other categories of membership • Exploration of interest in membership from outside the UK.

  15. Contact me for more information Sally Brown Institute for Learning and Teaching Genesis 3 Innovation Way Science Park York YO10 5DQ UK

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