Appendix 3: Professional development opportunities – academic work
In considering your achievements and development needs in light of the University strategy and the professionalization of teaching intent, you may consider the following developmental processes:
- Supports the development of graduate attributes for a global and digital age
- Peer enhancement of learning and teaching scheme (PETAL, POT etc)
- Formal pedagogic development – Course Design Intensives (CDI) model and course team away-days; learning and teaching workshops
- Disciplinary and interdisciplinary communities and networks, including Minerva, ASKe, Reinvention
- Collaborative projects to enhance the student learning experience
- Informal mentoring and discussions within course teams
- HE Academy Subject Centre engagement (contribution and/or participation);
- Reward and award schemes, such as commendations, salary contribution points, Brookes Teaching Fellowships, Teaching prizes and awards, support to work towards Senior Fellow of the HEA, National Teaching Fellowships, Readers and Professors.
- Employs a range of appropriate technologies and pedagogies
- Peer enhancement of learning and teaching scheme (PETAL, PELT etc)
- Formal pedagogic development – Course Design Intensives (CDI) model and course team away-days; learning and teaching workshops
- Disciplinary and interdisciplinary communities and networks
- Informal mentoring and discussions within course teams
- Networks and pedagogic interest groups for sharing practice, for example. eL@B, Minerva, ACOs, peer-assisted learning, problem-based learning;
- Collaborative projects to enhance the student learning experience
- Reward and award schemes, such as commendations, salary contribution points, Brookes Teaching Fellowships, Teaching prizes and awards, support to work towards Senior Fellow of the HEA, National Teaching Fellowships, Readers and Professors.
- CMLP: Core Management and Leadership Programme – to be extended to include module leadership and curriculum leadership, learner support team leadership, role-based discussions e.g. course co-ordinators;
- Involves learners, professional and regional communities
- Peer enhancement of learning and teaching scheme (PETAL, PELT etc)
- Projects and project bidding – external, centrally and departmentally-driven with a support network for ongoing sharing of practice and to develop outcomes further to publishable outputs; partnership development to enhance the curriculum
- HE Academy Subject Centre engagement (contribution, participation);
- Community and employer engagement and partnerships
- Reward and award schemes, such as commendations, salary contribution points, Brookes Teaching Fellowships, Teaching prizes and awards, support to work towards Senior Fellow of the HEA, National Teaching Fellowships, Readers and Professors.
- Senior leadership and development programmes – to be extended to include academic strategic planning, partnerships and collaborations for course provision, new course identification.
- Bid-writing and negotiation;
- Project management and benefit realisation
- Networks, partnerships and collaborations for research development and implications for teaching;
- Benefits from contemporary research and informs research
- Peer enhancement of learning and teaching scheme (PETAL, PELT etc)
- Pedagogic research development – a route to MA and professional doctorate.
- Networks and pedagogic interest groups for sharing practice, for example. eL@B, Minerva, ACOs, peer-assisted learning, problem-based learning;
- Reward and award schemes, such as commendations, salary contribution points, Brookes Teaching Fellowships, Teaching prizes and awards, support to work towards Senior Fellow of the HEA, National Teaching Fellowships, Readers and Professors.
- Research supervisor training and mentoring
- Profile building and research team development
- Writing and reviewing academic papers
- Research methods;
- Special interest groups, conferences and research clusters formation.