Activity 5

Enhancing others' practice

Enhancing practice at session, course, module or programme level (using the Student Learning Experience model)
 

  • Who is this activity designed for? Colleagues with responsibility for influencing others’ practice in terms of the curriculum and/or quality at session, course, module or programme level. This may include colleagues in academic development, organisational development, quality enhancement and/or students’ association teams.
  • How do I engage with this activity? This activity is designed for facilitating group sessions and dialogue with colleagues, and for prompting reflection and future enhancement at session, course, module or programme level. You can access it by clicking the relevant hyperlinks below.

  • How long will it take? The session plan has been designed around ~20-30 minutes of preparatory work (which can be conducted as an asynchronous pre-session activity) followed by a 60 minute group based workshop activity, hence an overall total activity time of 90 minutes.

Image of sparqs' Student Learning Experience model

 
a) Preparation: (~30 mins)

Before engaging with Part 2 (a group-based workshop activity) we recommend that participants engage with Activity 1 (~30 mins). This could be undertaken as a pre-workshop asynchronous activity.

 

b) Session Plan (#8) (~60 mins activity)

Co-creating an Enhancement Plan for the Student Learning Experience (at course, programme or institutional level)

This resource is a Session Plan (Word document) for facilitating a group workshop. It can downloaded, contextualised and adapted as required.

 

Mapping to Professional Standards

Professional Standards for Lecturers in Scotland’s Colleges, GTCS: 1.1.2/3/4, 1.3.1/2/3/4/5, 2.1.1/3, 2.2.1/2/3/4/5/11/12, 2.5.1/2/3/4/5/6, 3.1.2/3/4, 3.2.1/2/3/4, 3.3.2/3, 3.5.3

Professional Standards Framework (2023), Advance HE: V1, V2, V3, V5, K1, 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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