Faculty of Humanities, Law and Education First Year Students

Faculty of Humanities, Law and Education

First Year Students Student-Staff Partnerships in Learning &

Teaching

Why Partnership and Enquiry?

‘The scholarship of teaching and learning should result in a partnership where academics and students together engage in inquiry, not just about the disciplinary content of their learning but also about the teaching and learning process’

Brew, A (2006:120) Research and Teaching : Beyond the Divide Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan

Student as Consumer or Producer?

‘The idea of student as producer encourages the development of collaborative relations between student and academic for the production of knowledge.’

Neary & Winn (2009: 137) The Student as Producer: Reinventing the Student Experience in Higher Education in Bell, L., Stevenson, H & Neary, M The Future of Higher Education London: Continuum

Developing Learners and Teachers

Critical Reason

Critical Self-ReflectionCritical Action

The Critical Person

Barnett, R (1997) Higher Education: A Critical Business Bristol: Open University Press

Developing Learning & Teaching

Enhancing practice by...

• Talking about the learning process

• Articulating teaching practices

• Sharing perspectives on learning and teaching

• Changing practice in light of new understandings

What did we do?2009-11: Feedback for Learning Project

3 members of academic staff1 research fellow6 undergraduate ‘student researchers’

Data collection and analysis on ‘Feedback for Learning’ in 3 Schools (Humanities, Law and Education)

with staff

externally

with students

Using findings to make animpact on practice:

Student to Student ‘Feedback for Learning’ Workshops for

Yr 1 students across 3 Schools

A new aspect to practice:

Developing Resources:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HbbCNIr-z4

Resources for

Academic Writing

YouTube Video

‘Learn from Feedback’

Video

Staff School Student Profile

Increase formative assessment

990 plus students receive student-student feedback

workshops

Increased employability skills

Reports – Resources – shared across Faculty

Linking feedback across modules

New feedback proformas Increased academic skills de Havilland campus

Writing feedback differently

New tutorial procedures Insight into own learning UH

Talking with students about feedback

Student involvement in curriculum planning

Positive effect on attainment

Externally

Changing views of students

Engagement in learning

Impact on Practice

Faculty Student Researcher

Coaching and Employability

Group

Learning and Teaching Project

Learning and Teaching Project

Learning and Teaching Project

Learning and Teaching Project

Learning and Teaching

Learning and Teaching Project

How didwe work?2011-12

Faculty Coaching and Employability Group

Planning Enquiries and Resources Coaching from UH Centre for Coaching and Mentoring

Making External Links

Faculty Book Group

HLE, UH to NottinghamTrent University (NTU)

NTU to UH(de HavillandCampus)

Employability Skills and Graduate Attributes

Employability Skills and Graduate Attributes

Portfolio

ExamplesChallenge:Action : Result:

Mapped against employability skills& graduate attributes

Professionalism, employability & enterprise

Learning & research skills

Intellectual depth, breadth & adaptability

Respect for others

Social Responsibility

Link HEA Advisor visit to UH

Faculty Student Researcher

Coaching and Employability

Group

Learning and Teaching Project

Employability Module

Learning and Teaching Project

On-LineIndependent

TasksLearning and

Teaching Project

Introductory Subject Module

Learning and Teaching Project

Student-Students

Workshops

Learning and Teaching

FirstAssessment

Learning and Teaching Project

On-line Lectures

2011-12

The Projects

Context MethodImpact of Findings

Reflecting on Learning

Students

Staff

Next Steps...

School based modules using enquiry approaches and

the ‘Employability Portfolio’

School based student researchers working with staff to

evaluate and develop learning

School based student researcher-staff groupsconnecting across different Schools

Thank You

j.jarvis@herts.ac.uk