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Pursuit of Teaching Excellence: Ideas from England. James Derounian BSc (Hons) MPhil MRTPI FHEA. Yours truly. 30 years as practitioner & academic Community Development [CD] background Crossover between teaching and CD Empowerment, facilitation, capacity building…
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Pursuit of Teaching Excellence:Ideas from England James Derounian BSc (Hons) MPhil MRTPI FHEA
Yours truly • 30 years as practitioner & academic • Community Development [CD] background • Crossover between teaching and CD • Empowerment, facilitation, capacity building… • Practical academic: teaching-research/consultancy • Principal Lecturer & National Teaching Fellow
UK Growing status of teaching & learning • Higher Education Academy HEA funded projects: http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/ • Teaching Quality Enhancement Fund (TQEF) • Fund for the Development of Teaching & LearningFDTL 1995 – • Teaching & Learning Technology Programme (TLTP): “make teaching & learning more productive & efficient by harnessing modern technology” • National Teaching Fellowships 50/year $14,200 http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/ourwork/professional/ntfs
Centre’s of Excellence in Teaching & LearningCETLs • HEA24 Subject Centres e.g. GEES • Dearing report 1997: PG Cert Teaching & Learning (< 3 yrs experience) • Growth in Scholarship of Teaching & Learning • Continuing gap between T&L and research (RAE)
Resurgence in role of employers & graduate attributes (Leitch & Egan reports) • Growing diversity of universities • Diversity in T&L – student-centred
Active learning “learning by doing” “a student focused approach” Academic ‘assertiveness’ (Moon) Gibbs, 1988 & Prosser & Trigwell, 1999 cited in Healey & Roberts 2004 p.1
Examples of active learning • Graduate contributions to teaching • Benefits for students, staff & graduates • Use of ‘live’ tasks & assignments • Student contributions to UK Government 2009 ‘Framework for Greater Citizen Engagement’
Inspirational teaching in HE – What does it look, sound & feel like? Memorable Encouraging Exciting Passionate
Inspirational teaching InspirationAspirationTransformation
Inspirational teaching • Get out of order • Put on a good show • Create shock value • Tell a story • Toy with success Cohen & Jurkovic, 1997
Nothing new under the sun? “judge our value as teachers on the basis of our power to stimulate a willingness to work, and to train young minds to do hard things in such a way that they will gain pleasure from the effort”. Wilson (1918)
Rewarding teaching excellence • University Teaching Fellowships • National Teaching Fellowships NTFs • NTF project fund - 350K • ‘Professional’ route to Professorship
Do as I do….The sustainable university? • Environmental Management System independently verified to international standard ISO 14001 • No.1 in People and Planet Sustainability League of Universities, 2008 http://peopleandplanet.org/gogreen/greenleague2008/universitycasestudies/gloucestershire • Active learning for Faculty & students • Citizen first, academic second JD Bernal
References • Cohen, S & Jurkovic, J (1997) Training and Development 51 (11): 66- November • Dearing, R Higher education in the learning society / National Committee of Inquiry into Higher Education, http://www.leeds.ac.uk/educol/ncihe/ • Healey, M & Roberts, J (2004) ‘Engaging Students in Active Learning: Case Studies in Geography, Environment & Related Disciplines’, University of Gloucestershire • Leitch, S (2006) Review of Skills – Prosperity for all in the global economy, TSO, London
Ministry of Justice (2009) Summary of responses to A Framework for Greater Citizen Engagementhttp://governance.justice.gov.uk/ • People and Planet (2008) Sustainability League of Universities http://peopleandplanet.org/gogreen/greenleague2008/universitycasestudies/gloucestershire • Wilson, LM (1918) Factors in successful teaching that need to be stressed in both high school and college, The Classical Journal, 13 (7), 476-482