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Collegiate Commentary: Five communities created by staff-student projects

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

As universities are under an increasing level of regulation and accountability in relation to student success and retention, we see commitments towards partnership working as a form of best practice (see: Office for Students Student Engagement Strategy ).

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Spotlight on ELIR: Draft Reflective Analysis

Teaching Matters Student Employment

Comments received on the first draft have been used to develop a second draft, which is now being made available to all students and staff to comment on. The RA is a self-evaluative document that covers how we are working to enhance the student learning experience. We welcome comments from students and staff on the draft RA.

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Mini-series: Students as sustainability auditors

Teaching Matters Student Employment

Charissa explains her role in the auditing process: I reviewed the choices that the [department] team had made and their documents proving implementation, and then met with my team of auditors to quickly review it all together before performing the audit itself.

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Teaching building and building teachers

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

The project developed and documented eight STEM workshops to be taught in schools in Ghana using only basic teaching resources. Last year saw 200 Edinburgh primary school pupils engage with the project, as our volunteers teach practical engineering skills through fun group workshops. Six years later the project is still developing.

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Design Agency: 100% Employable

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

As each student progresses through the role of Design Agency intern, junior, senior, and director, their level of responsibility and workload increases. Each encounter of this spiral curriculum is assessed through reflective documentation often using diaries, blogs, films and pecha-kucha style presentations.