Activity 3

Enhancing your own practice

Enhancing your practice at course, module or programme level
 

  • Who is this activity designed for? Any staff member who has responsibility for the curriculum or quality at course, module or programme level (e.g. Course Leader, Programme Leader).
  • How do I engage with this activity? We recommend that you individually work through the three resources shown on this page. You can engage with them on an asynchronous (on demand) basis by clicking the relevant hyperlinks below. You can also select your preferred format for some resources, for example, watching a screencast or reading a summary paper.  
    You may also choose to encourage your course team members to also work through this activity on an individual basis before convening for a group discussion to compare your individual outputs and reflections.
  • How long will it take? It should take approximately 40 minutes to work through this activity.
Image of Scotland's Ambition for Student Partnership

 
a) Introduction to Student Partnership - Part 1 (#2)

This resource can be viewed as a screencast below. It provides an introduction to Student Partnership, including why it’s important, it’s role within the Scottish tertiary sector, and why we should engage with it.

- view the transcript

Length: ~5 mins 33 secs

 

b) Introduction to Scotland’s Ambition for Student Partnership (#4)

This resource can be viewed as screencast (below) or a summary paper. It provides an introduction to Scotland’s Ambition for Student Partnership which is a key sector reference point within Scotland’s Tertiary Quality Enhancement Framework (TQEF).  

 -  view the transcript

Length: ~8 minutes

 

c) Enhancing student partnership at course, programme or institutional level (#6)

This resource is a self-directed worksheet (Word document) that can downloaded and used on an individual, asynchronous (on demand) basis.

 

Mapping to Professional Standards

Professional Standards for Lecturers in Scotland’s Colleges, GTCS: 1.1.2, 1.3.1/3/4/5, 2.1.1/3, 2.2.1/2/4/5/12, 2.5.2/4/6, 3.2.1/2/4, 3.3.2

Professional Standards Framework (2023), Advance HE: V1, V2, V3, K2, K3, K5, A1, A5

 

Copyright

Each resource is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial 4.0 licence.
You are free to copy, communicate and adapt the work, so long as you attribute sparqs.

 

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