With over a decade of HE teaching, including 6 years of programme leadership experience, I currently lecture on BA (Hons) Graphic Design for Digital Media at GCU. Me presenting at Mahara UK in London 2010. Armed with evidence of personal success, I went about pulling my experiences and findings into a workshop that could be delivered to students and staff at all levels. From looking at the bookings I could see that we were to expect 50 participants ranging from administrators to lecturers, HR managers to support service staff. If you get lucky and have Tony as the author of your text, no trouble will threaten your success! This example shows how feedback from students led to a review of the current assessment, resulting in a more coherent and focussed brief. Li, M. (2020) Multimodal pedagogy in TESOL teacher education: Students perspectives, System, 94. doi: 10.1016/j.system.2020.102337. It was then agreed that all induction materials and demonstrations that I would normally offer in a face-to-face class would be delivered online, drastically reducing the amount of hours I would be needed to be in a classroom. Peach, T. (2018) If you could, how would you? educating your staff and students about copyright. The collaborative learning maintained here was particularly effective where this mirrors assessed group working. Fellowship (FHEA) Application Template Personal details Name, role, department, teaching qualifications/awards Personal statement/introduction (200-500 words) Short reflective statement that includes: a concise biography; the context in which you currently work; the reasons for your application. Around the room I set up seven stations. Some students will even open up their existing LinkedIn accounts to share the before and after profiles. 24-43. In: Chalmers, D. and Hunt, L. eds. By developing these guides, it has fostered more conversation within our librarian team about what accessible referencing teaching means, particularly in how we describe referencing in our classes so that it relies less on wholly visual information. You can see what other Universities are up to, meet like-minded professionals and potentially make contacts that may provide opportunities for collaboration. Me presenting at MoodleMaharaMoot in Leipzig, Germany 2014. Hattie, J. and Timperley, H. (2007) The Power of Feedback,Review of Educational Research, 77(1), pp. It will be interesting to see if the students do actually follow my guidance, compile and submit a more focussed assessment, thus improving the average grade for that cohort. doi: 10.1353/lib.2019.0008. DInfSc thesis. MSc thesis. Give detail about individual contributions when working on joint projects. There are more than 150,000 HEA fellows in the world. reflectively, I shared some writing tips in this Cracking Going beyond simply stating ILOs, Biggs (2003) argues that teachers need to engage in constructive alignment, wherein the assessment tasks mirror the ILOs, and the teaching methods reflect and engage with the activities required in the ILOs (K2). Working with a disabled staff member who uses a screenreader, I have been re-developing referencing guidance through aspects of Universal Design, but critically applied so it re-centers disabled people in its focus without deficit thinking (Baglieri, 2020; Connor, 2020; Douglas and Santinele Martino, 2020). The tasks set will help the students with building up a portfolio for their assessment (an example portfolio will be made available to them from the start to show them what theyre aiming for, (seeA3: Assessing and giving feedback to learners). 192199. Robert Gordon University. Lloyd, A. These sessions are advertised online so that staff can book in when it suits them. (View criteria for HEA Senior Fellow, Principal Fellow) The HEA defines 'good standing' as "continuing to work in accordance with the standard indicated by the relevant Fellow Descriptor of the UKPSF (HEA, 2013:2). Preparing your HEA application Many colleagues have used our 'HEA Fellowships-on-one-page' handout, which is best printed out A3 in colour when working on your applications for Associate Fellowship, Fellowship, Senior Fellowship and Principal Fellowship. The objective was to give the lecturers and staff an opportunity to experience of what it was like to study as a student using the Flipped Model of course delivery, giving them an idea of how they can use myCourse themselves to facilitate this method of teaching. Through my online networks I am able to keep up with my peers and stay up-to-date with the latest news and issues to do with my role, however sometimes its great to have more in depth conversations where detailed experiences can be shared. By offering these opportunities for learning to staff, I hope they can incorporate something that theyve seen and use it to increase their students engagement and experience at SSU. Focusing a Critical Lens on Universal Design for Learning,Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, 9(5), pp. (ever felt that way?). Once the list was completed, I would ask the class to review the list against the referencing criteria and point out to me and the class what could be improved. What are other people . I briefly touched on this during A2 where I gave examples of how I use online technologies to support student learning. In: Chalmers, D. and Hunt, L. eds. (2020) I dont like to be told that I view a student with a deficit mindset: Why it Matters that Disability Studies in Education Continues to Grow, https://cjds.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cjds/article/view/689, Introduction: Disability Studies in EducationCritical Conversations, https://cjds.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cjds/article/view/688(Accessed. To support the lecturers, I will now work with them individually to decide how the induction process would go; some will still book an IT room where the students will work through the videos in one session, others will drip-feed 10 minute activities week by week to be completed as homework. Tewell, E. (2015) A Decade of Critical Information Literacy: A Review of the Literature,Comminfolit, 9(1), pp. Next to each ILO, I included a self-evaluation scale and instructed students to evaluate their current ability, from 1 (low) to 5 (high). It also allowed the students to explore the reasons why they made certain decisions in their choices when questioned by myself. Some people break their HEA applications into specific points while others tell Through a disability lens, and my experiences of working with disabled students, I consider referencing stylistics as an ableist practice for particular disabilities (dyslexia, blindness etc), and by extension I see how library referencing support (whilst adhering to the Accessibility regulations and WCAG standards) is not actually pedagogically accessible [A2]. In the seminar I gave all students a copy of the revision guide. From doing this course I was able to experience what it was like being one of thousands of students on a MOOC, see how the course was designed and delivered, and update my knowledge on Virtual instruction. Liersch, U. I often attend and get invited to present at Solent events, delivering sessions such as the "Digital Researcher?, "Rethinking Pedagogy with New Technologies" and "Why Social Media Matters". This is an example of how Mahara can be used to build a portfolio of evidence. Either way, the mid-unit clinic is only successful if the students have carried out the tasks set prior to the session. We are developing further content around exemplars and will be continually updating this section of the website over coming months, so please do check regularly for updates and new content. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. Having previously taught in Early Years, Primary, Secondary and Further Education, as well as community theatre education and private music tuition, I have now been teaching in Higher Education at York St John since 2017. It was promoted by the Higher Education Academy (HEA, now Advance HE) as a way of recognising individual university teachers' contribution to learning and teaching.The framework allows eligible staff engaged in teaching and learning to apply for four categories of . Before beginning my teaching career I had obtained . Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. The session was titled Using Technology to Support your Graduate Associate Position and lasted two hours, meaning that I had to ensure that I was able to keep my audience engaged and allowed time for reflection, activity, interaction with their peers and opportunities for feedback (see below): ___________________________________________________________. Available at:https://www.policyconnect.org.uk/research/arriving-thriving-learning-disabled-students-ensure-access-all(Accessed: 21 December 2020). As a result, I have become more engaged with the practices within those schools, and my position as a teaching colleague is more respected [K1, K5, V2]. Oxford: Chandos. https://blog.yorksj.ac.uk/lgbt/2019/10/11/diversity-in-information-resources-working-towards-inclusion-2/, The Practice and Promise of Critical Information Literacy: Academic Librarians Involvement in Critical Library Instruction, http://crl.acrl.org/index.php/crl/article/view/16616, Flipping the sociology classroom: Towards a practice of online pedagogy, Multimodal pedagogy in TESOL teacher education: Students perspectives, Toward Inclusive Education? The second is critical information literacy (Elmborg, 2006; Tewell, 2015; Tewell, 2018) which itself is drawn heavily from critical pedagogy and the writings of Freire (1985) to theorise the discernment and interrogation of power structures in information and its use [A5, K3, V1, V2, V3]. Having students share their analyses in class, I was able to recognise that the ILO had been achieved (K5). Class time is then used for clarification and interaction with the teacher and their peers. We at SSU are deemed to be one of the front runners in the innovative uses of the myPortfolio software and are often asked to do virtual tours of our systems and help resources to other universities such as Manchester Metropolitan University, University of Bath and recently PACE University in New York using virtual classroom software. If you're interested in this professional recognition programme, please visit their webpages and look through the Professional Standards Framework (PSF). 145163. HEA fellowship - A portfolio example In 2016 I gained fellowship of the Higher Education Academy. One aspect of my role that I really enjoy is working with academics to develop their unit assessment briefs. Brown, N. and Leigh, J. My intention is to create training resources for teaching librarians to improve the accessibility of their teaching when it comes to visually impaired students. The research reported here was supported by the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), EPSRC-LWEC Challenge Fellowship EP/N02950X/1. Nothing brings him more sense of fulfillment than writing fellowship docs in orthopedics. Descriptors, outcome (Accept / Borderline / Refer), and any special comments: 2.I Successful engagement across all five Areas of ActivityAccept, 2.II Appropriate knowledge and understanding across all aspects of Core KnowledgeAccept, 2.III A commitment to all the Professional ValuesAccept. These statements are posted with the permission of the former (anonymous) AIIS fellows who wrote them. This portfolio contains all my evidence and reflections as required for my application to become a Fellow of the Higher education Academy. This is aimed at lecturers, specifically those who attended a presentation I did with fellow Learning Technologist, Julian Prior, titled Rethinking Pedagogy with New Technologies at the recent Solent Exchange 2013. The resources below provide you with the relevant documents to start your application plus a copy of the UK Professional Standards Framework (UKPSF), which underpins the Fellowship process: It was during this time that I decided to re-evaluate my support offer and see if I could do anything differently. This was a particularly impressive aspect of your claim which you demonstrated in relation to both scholarship and practice. Once I finished my draft, I sent it for internal review. assessors/trainers who talked us through HEA framework. [citation needed]Founded in response to the increasing . You made appropriate reference to both the dimensions of the framework and the scholarship of learning and teaching an impressive aspect of your work that continued throughout the claim. This was proving to be an issue as Im not meant to be teaching students, only to support lecturers so that they could do it themselves. Each one had a piece of paper which detailed one of the ILOs and the essential readings which were directly relevant to it (evidence 2). Dean, C.J. In other words, I expected HEA to show up at my doorstep and make me a world-class learning and teaching professional. Through engaging in a practical process of research, reflection and development, culminating in the production of a reflective teaching portfolio, I was able to demonstrate my commitment to teaching, learning and the student experience. I am a great believer in the maxim Dont let the technological tail wag your pedagogical dog and will always consider what will be useful for the students to help them learn. What is HEA Fellowship? The Higher Education Academy (HEA) is the national (UK) body which "champions teaching excellence" and seeks to inspire and improve teaching in higher education. As this was developed over this term, I am now in a position to more clearly articulate and explore teaching options with academic staff I work with, as well as provide examples of how these sessions function based on the 32 times I have now taught variations on this workshop (conversations which have started to happen more clearly). To some technology is seen as a necessary evil and I can hopefully help them to see the benefits rather than the inconvenience. (2019) Dyslexia: Shackles far beyond the written word, in McIntosh, M., Nicholas, H., and Huq, H. A. The HEA Fellowship is administered by Advance HE in the UK, whose goal is to bring the higher education sector together to share teaching strategies and practice. Below, I share with you my portfolio in the hope that you too might glean some ideas and inspiration for your own fellowship applications and critical reflections on your teaching. You should complete this section against the relevant descriptor statements (D1-D3) in the UKPSF, making sure that you provide evidence against appropriate Dimensions of the Framework. The topics to be covered include MOOCs, Open Badges, Polling technologies, OER, Audio in Education, Flipped Classroom Model and Virtual Classrooms. Wisker, G. ed. 105117. In this way, students were given key materials (the referencing guides and some resources) and asked to problem-solve how they would reference these resources. Advance HE is a UK-based member-led, sector-owned charity that promotes excellence in higher education across the world. Goodley, D.et al. As mentioned at the start of this application, I have undertaken a PGCert in Teaching Post Compulsory Education and Training where I was able to hone my skills as a teacher and understand the importance of mentoring and support students and their needs, classroom management and professional practices (lesson plans, schemes of work, resources and assessment). Students fedback enjoyed the breakout rooms and joint experience in Word in this module, but some experienced their submissions being accidently deleted which introduced assessment anxiety to the process, and I decided that in future, engagement marks would need more consideration when using open tools [K4, K5, K6]. For instance, if screen-readers do not read out punctuation, then it is failing its core purpose [A4, K2, K4]. This whole assessment review depended on obtaining feedback from many parties; teaching staff, students and myself as a learning technology specialist. I centre my pedagogy around a basis in constuctivism, particularly social constructivism (Vygotsky, 1978), with a humanist lens. As with the first, I had a great opportunity to experience life as a student taking a MOOC (both good and bad) and felt that I was now ready to start disseminating my new knowledge of MOOCs with my colleagues. The lecturer could instead request a reflective journal or blog, digital portfolio, video or something else that will demonstrate that the students have met the intended outcomes. If you are submitting an application before 31 December 2023, you can still use the 2011 version of the PSF. in a narrative. Connor, D. J. As HEA doesnt allow the sharing of examples of successful applications electronically, Im happy to meet with anybody whos interested.