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Professional Development and Professional Recognition for University Teachers: a mentor’s eye view

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

Development and Recognition of Mentors Importantly, mentoring can also be seen as part of an educator’s professional development and recognition. 2016) Recognising Ourselves and Each Other in Professional Recognition. Nov 3, 2016 or in the Vet School catriona.bell@ed.ac.uk and Collins, C. Rattray, T.

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An introduction to student and staff co-creation of the curriculum

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

While these examples do come with the challenges and risks of embracing spontaneity and sharing ownership (Bovill, Cook-Sather, Felten, Millard, & Moore-Cherry, 2016; Mercer-Mapstone et al., Oxford, UK: Oxford Brookes University: Oxford Centre for Staff and Learning Development. 2017), there are also many benefits!

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How our experienced academics develop as teachers

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

Recently I’ve been enjoying interviewing some of our experienced academics about how they have developed as teachers across their careers. I spoke with colleagues from all three Colleges about what it has been like to grow as a teacher before the recent upsurge in formal continuing professional development for teaching in higher education.

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Mini-series: Academic blogging at University of Edinburgh

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

2007; Deng & Yuen, 2011), particularly reflective writing (Hemmi, Bayne, & Land, 2009), and learning to write for particular real or imagined audiences (Ross, 2014; Gogia, 2016). Writing online can make explicit a thought process, demonstrating the development of an approach and understanding over time. 2016, March 8).

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Time Well Spent: Reflections on undertaking the EdTA 

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

You need to accrue 40 points over a range of criteria, such as designing and planning learning activities, assessment and feedback and continuing professional development (CPD). Nov 9, 2016 Well, the good news is that it’s a very flexible scheme. As well as teaching and research, he is interested in science outreach.

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