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