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

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

In the EdTA we conceptualise teaching very broadly to include not only lecturing, tutorials and lab work, but also one-to-one supervision of projects, dissertations and PhD theses, meetings with personal tutees, workshops for colleagues and a range of other online and face-to-face activities that are designed to facilitate learning.

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IntroAP: Recognising and developing postgraduate teaching

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

With these desires and postgraduate teachers in mind, the IAD developed the Introduction to Academic Practice (IntroAP) to support navigation of this new world; a semester long, workshop-based programme leading to Associate Fellowship of the HEA. Fiona facilitates professional development workshops for T+D’s and IntroAP.

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Mini-series: Blogging – What is it good for?

Teaching Matters Online Learning

Blogging is also at the heart of the Edinburgh Teaching Award (EdTA), one of the professional development pathways to Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy. To find out more about using blogs to apply for CMALT and EdTa please contact Susan Greig at s.greig@ed.ac.uk

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From PgCAP to PTAS: Co-creating a new Development Needs Analysis for PGRs

Teaching Matters Student Employment

So, what all started as part of my own professional development, resulted in a project all about professional development, and created a professional development opportunity. Anna Pilz Dr Anna Pilz (she/her) is an Academic Developer and Trainer in the Institute for Academic Development at Edinburgh.

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Welcome to the March issue of Teaching Matters: Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and PTAS

Teaching Matters Online Learning

Ideas about professional development for university teachers have also moved on. While teacher development often takes place through formal programmes or workshops, there are also powerful opportunities for development through the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. Happy reading!

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Mini-series: Great examples of using blogs in teaching

Teaching Matters Academic Support

As part of this new service, my colleague, Robert Chmielewski, and I have been working on a staff training workshop in the area of blogging for teaching and learning.

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Mini-series: Academic blogging at University of Edinburgh

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

Over the years, we’ve developed expertise in how to use blogs to support learning and teaching , engage audiences with our work, build communities, and underpin professional development. site, we’ve developed a set of training workshops and will be kicking off a face-to-face seminar series to foster a community of practice.