Changemaker@Northampton – Development Opportunities

1. Professional Recognition and engagement in continuing professional development: Why bother and what is in it for me? • Changemaker@Northampton – Development Opportunities • Dr Sally Bradley • 22 May 2014

2. Yes, C@N-DO did it !

3. HEA Recognition Senior Fellow EdD modules Level 8 Fellow Guidance Scholarship Peer Support Courses in Supporting Professional Development, Academic Leadership, Mentoring, Assessing for Fellowship, HE Policy, Research Supervision etc Level 7 Associate Fellow Practical courses for both new and existing staff reflecting the UKPSF < Level 7 Congratulations Practical Courses for staff new to teaching in HE < Level 7 Academic Qualifications Level 7 Level 8 EdD PGCAP 60 credits

5. 1997: National Committee of Inquiry into Higher Education – The Dearing Report • 5. That future will require higher education in the UK to: … be at the leading edge of world practice in effective learning and teaching; • 6. To achieve this, higher education will depend on: professional, committed members of staff who are appropriately trained, respected and rewarded;

6. 2003: The Future of Higher Education • The origin of the UKPSF consultation lay in the proposal in the White Paper, The Future of Higher Education (DfES, 2003) that • 'from 2006 all new teaching staff should obtain a teaching qualification that incorporates agreed professional teaching standards'.

7. Teaching Qualifications: An old conversation or a recent development?

8. Dimensions of Quality

10. UK or International?

11. Something new?

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

13. What do we do as academics and student support? Answers on a post it note! One minute, starting now ….

14. What do we do as academics and student support? • 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

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

17. The use and value of appropriate learning technologies

20. Continuing Professional Development What does this mean to you? What does this mean for your practice?

21. 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.

23. That’s me! I am a professional in learning and teaching and student support But what about me, I’m a researcher …

25. Researcher supporting students? • PhD supervision • Planning researcher development training • Leading Research Supervisor training • Leading on PhD Examining training • Examining PhDs • Delivery of research methodology training

26. Descriptors • AFHEA / FHEA – the individual’s personal practice activity • SFHEA – the development and mentoring others in learning and teaching • PFHEA – the demonstrable impact in learning and teaching activity by influencing policy and strategy • Recognition decisions made against the descriptor.

27. HEA Recognition Senior Fellow EdD modules Level 8 Fellow Guidance Scholarship Peer Support Courses in Supporting Professional Development, Academic Leadership, Mentoring, Assessing for Fellowship, HE Policy, Research Supervision etc Level 7 Associate Fellow Practical courses for both new and existing staff reflecting the UKPSF < Level 7 Practical Courses for staff new to teaching in HE < Level 7 Academic Qualifications Level 7 Level 8 EdD PGCAP 60 credits

28. Associate Fellowship D1 Senior Fellowship D3 Fellowship D2 Which category of Fellowship is appropriate for you, and how can you obtain recognition? Which Descriptor is appropriate for you? Which Route is appropriate for you? Direct Submission to C@N-DO for D1 Yes How? Do you have at least 1 year HE teaching /support experience ? No C@N-DO participation, leading to C@N-DO submission for D1 No Have you already successfully completed Module 1 of the UoN PGCTHE? Is teaching or learning support a significant element of your role? Claim Associate Fellowship (D1) from HEA Yes Direct submission to C@N-DO for D2 Yes Yes How? Do you have at least 2 years FTE teaching / support experience? C@N-DO participation, leading to C@N-DO submission for D2 No No Have you already successfully completed both modules of the (old) UoN PGCTHE? Claim Fellowship (D2) from HEA Yes Is L&T Mentoring & Leadership a significant element of your role? Direct submission to C@N-DO for D3 How? Yes Are you able to demonstrate sustained impact & influence on L&T practice over a period of 3 years+ ? Yes C@N-DO participation, leading to C@N-DO submission for D3 No

29. What’s in it for me? • Some examples from colleagues at Sheffield Hallam: • Contribution to Professoriate application for Learning and Teaching • Demonstration of leadership within a job application for Head of Department • Claim for National Teaching Fellowship • Raising the profile of support staff and their contribution to the student experience

30. And the benefit to me? HEA Application?!It’s one of those things you do unwillingly- realise it was worth it- and will others to do it! I began my application for HEA accreditation longer ago than I care to recall. It just seemed like too much effort, between the teaching and research activities, to complete, edit, reflect...and find two referees. But when I completed the process, to have others acknowledge my work, made this one of my most life enhancing experiences. Going through the process of writing my HEA Fellowship application made me reflect on my journey, discipline my writing and realise how far I had come in understanding my teaching and learning. I've come through this process feeling it was a genuinely rewarding process - not a means to an end.

31. Impact of UKPSF • 84% said UKPSF had led to change to : • Academic development • Learning • Teaching • Student experience • But few individuals recognised the UKPSF

32. What the HEA has to offer

33. 2014 – 2015 HEA support for: • Student engagement and working with students as partners; • Technology enhanced and flexible learning; • Widening participation, inclusivity, retention and success, including a focus on differential attainment issues; • Postgraduate provision. • Raising the status of teaching, and professionalisation of teaching; • Support for disciplines; • Employability; • Education for sustainable development (ESD); • Internationalisation; • Assessment and feedback;

34. Programmes Programme One: Curriculum Design graduate attributes including employability, inter-culturalism and global citizenship, digital literacies and education for sustainable development; specific discipline skills and curriculum priorities; interdisciplinary learning. Programme Two: Innovative Pedagogies recognising that students' engagement with learning is key to their learning gain and achievement

35. Programmes: continued • Programme Three: Student Transitions • issues of inclusivity, flexibility, widening access, equality and diversity, retention and social mobility, impact of HE policy reform in relation to student transitions into, through and out of HE. • Programme Four: Staff Transitions (Teaching excellence, professionalisation and CPD) • build on the HEA’s current work on teaching excellence, professionalisation, reward and recognition, including the use of the UK Professional Standards Framework (UKPSF) in promotions criteria and remaining in good standing.

36. What now? You C@N-DO it! And the HEA C@N (help you) DO it

37. So all that’s left to do is ….