2. What we’ll be talking about
• What is the PgC THE?
• Personal journey
• Cons
• Benefits
3. What is the PgC THE?
• Postgraduate certificate in Teaching in Higher
Education
• All academic staff expected to complete 60
credits to gain HEA Fellowship
• Non academic staff can stop at 20 credits
– And become a Associate fellow of HEA
4. What’s involved:
HEA Associate - 20 credits
• Introductory studies, Teaching in Higher
Education
– 40 hours of teaching, including teaching prep
– Teaching intervention
• An aspect of learning and teaching practice that you can
develop and improve
• With peer observations and student evaluation/feedback
– Provide evidence of learning in portfolio
• Includes reflections, feedback & academic paper on teaching
intervention
5. What’s involved
HEA Fellowship – 40 credits
• Further 80 hours of concurrent teaching
• Two teaching interventions
– 4 peer observations, 1 report and 1 poster,
2 student evaluations
• Reflective summary
6. HEA – UK Professional Standards Framework
• Design and plan learning activities and/or
programmes of study
• Teach and/or support learning
• Assess and give feedback to learners
• Develop effective learning environments and
approaches to student support and guidance
• Engage in continuing professional
development
7. How a librarian might ‘teach’ rather
than ‘train’
Topic: Gather information for an early years assignment
using relevant subject databases
Task: Students are divided into groups and asked to
search for information relating to their topic to become
an ‘expert’ in their subject area. Each group has 30
minutes to investigate their topic and when the time is
up, each expert group will take turns to come up to the
front and demonstrate the database.
Assessment: Poster visualizing their research
11. Amanda’s Story
My intervention Next steps
The intervention was carried out from November 2009 – • 2nd intervention - Written or oral
January 2010 and involved all 134 students in year 1 of
the BA Educational Studies course. I carried out 6
report
workshops and an online assessment quiz was used to
assess the student’s research skills. The quiz covered the
catalogue and Library databases and a short online
• 3rd Intervention - Research poster
lesson was used to complement my sessions. The
assessment was worth 35% of the marks for the module. • Completion of PGCHE in May 2013
January 2009 Post
intervention
Responsibility Librarian Librarian &
academic staff
Relation to External Integral
the
curriculum
Placement in Isolated Embedded
the workshops and assessed
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12. Limits: barriers & obstacles
• Lack of information strategy
• Varies from university to university
• Lack of academic co-operation
• Not always willing to involve librarians
• Other commitments and responsibilities
13. Is it worth it? Yes!!!
• HEA professional recognition is invaluable
• Information literacy framework: understanding how to
teach good information skills is essential
– Formal teaching qualification helps you do this more effectively
• Understanding of learning theory is important
– More realistic expectations of students
• Greater self-motivation to take risks and engage with new
and exciting forms of teaching technology
14. “The reward of a
thing well done,
is to have done
it”.
Ralph Waldo
Emerson,
"Nominalist and
Realist", Essays:
Second Series
(1844).
Notes de l'éditeur
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