Developing Talent with the UKPSF

1. Developing Talent with the UKPSF • Dr Sally Bradley SFHEA • Academic Lead (Accreditation, Recognition and Reward) • April 2014

2. Outline of the session • Introduction • Understanding the UK Professional Standards Framework for teaching and supporting learning (UK PSF) • Higher Education Academy (HEA) Fellowships • Shared examples of how the UK PSF and HEA Fellowship can be used to engage staff in professional development • Current thinking on remaining in good standing • How the HEA can work with HR professionals and staff developers

3. Introduction

4. The UK Professional Standards Framework for teaching and supporting learning in higher education 2011 UKPSF 2011

5. What do academics do? • Teach and support learning • Assess and give feedback • Design and plan learning activities • Create environments in which students learn and are supported • Engage in CPD

6. Continuing Professional Development • participating in meetings, conferences and seminars • presenting internal seminars • postgraduate study • discussion and networking • learning from students (feedback) • mentoring and supervision • peer supported review • updating, and delivery of teaching • critical review and preparation of teaching materials • reading and reviewing journal articles • secondment and work shadowing • consultancy activity • undertaking research and the presentation of papers • observing and reviewing teaching practice • extending range and scope of teaching practice – new activities • undertaking research ethics training • external examining.

7. The Areas of Activity Design & plan (A1) Environment Support Guidance (A4) Evaluate & Develop (A5) Teach/support learning (A2) Assess & feedback (A3)

10. HEA Fellowships and UK PSF Descriptors • AFHEA (D1) - the individual’s personal practice activity • FHEA (D2) – the individual’s personal practice activity • SFHEA (D3) – the development and mentoring others in learning and teaching • PFHEA (D4) – the demonstrable impact in learning and teaching activity by influencing policy and strategy

13. SFHEA - Experienced staff Demonstrating impact and influence through, for example, responsibility for leading, managing or organisingprogrammes, subjectsand/or disciplinary areas Including subject mentors and staff who support those new to teaching And staff with departmental and/or wider teaching and learning support advisory responsibilities within an institution

14. PFHEA - Highly experienced academics With evidence of a sustained and effective record of impact at a strategic level in relation to teaching and learning, as part of a wider commitment to academic practice. a. Highly experienced and/or senior staff with wide-ranging academic or academic-related strategic leadership responsibilities in connection with key aspects of teaching and supporting learning b. Staff responsible for institutional strategic leadership and policymaking in the area of teaching and learning c. Staff who have strategic impact and influence in relation to teaching and learning that extends beyond their own institution

15. But what about the Researchers?

17. Working together: How the UK PSF and HEA Fellowship can be used to engage staff in continuing professional development

18. Engaging with HEA recognition • Job specifications requiring Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in HE/ Academic Practice or FHEA status • HESA data • Promotion criteria • Professoriate application • Graduate Teaching Assistants/ Postdoctoral Researcher employability skills • Remaining in Good Standing within appraisal /PDR

19. Remaining in Good Standing • Models emerging from the sector: • Discussion at annual appraisal meetings • Embedded within Peers Supported Review and/or Observation • Use of “MyAcademy” to record engagement and reflection

20. How the HEA can work with HR professionals and staff developers?

22. Contact Detailssally.bradley@heacademy.ac.uk