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The Directors of Teaching Network: sharing good practice and discussing challenges in teaching across the university

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

The Directors of Teaching Network is a new initiative started by the Assistant Principal for Assessment and Feedback, Professor Susan Rhind in 2016. The first meeting in February 2016 included introductions to each school and their major achievements and challenges in assessment and feedback.

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Learning from each other: Creating a scholarly community of practice through peer tutoring

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

2016 ), though this is perhaps better defined as a “community of enquiry” (Bozalek et al., Our role as staff is not as “disciplinary content experts” (Bovill et al., 2016) but as scholarly partners, or “collegial contributors” (Marquis et al., Educational Developments, 17(3), 28-30. References Boyd, S., Cook-Sather, A.,

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Practical applications

Teaching Matters Academic Support

You might also be interested in the QAA event ‘Student Engagement in Postgraduate Research Provision’ on 23 March 2016. EUSA Teaching Awards Feb 1, 2016 The IAD has a range of resources to support doctoral researchers including, courses, networks, funding, career management, and advice and support.

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Using Peer Observation to enhance teaching and learning

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

Case Example The Vet School launched a formative peer observation programme in Jan 2016, following approval by the R(D)SVS Senior Management Group which made this a mandatory exercise every two years for all staff involved in teaching. To date, over 50% of these (including Prof David Argyle, Head of School) have completed the exercise.

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Getting to Know You – Finding out who’s who in the Edinburgh Medical School

Teaching Matters Academic Support

Although it’s only week 2 of the new academic year, we’ve received quite a few profiles from students and I know lots of staff members have had more enthusiastic students than usual approach them for a friendly chat about what they do. Sep 27, 2016

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Support at scale: School-wide support for postgraduates who teach

Teaching Matters Student Employment

As a result of on going discussion at about contract security, it became clear in the 2015-2016 academic session that improvements were needed. After an external review a new process was introduced and has continued to be developed in 2016-2017 to ensure transparency, fairness and compliance with legislation.

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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!