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Outcome Assignment: Teaching Methods
Students will be asked to write an assignment This topic is intended to be of interest to anyone
which should analyse an ethical dilemma presented engaged in the supervision of others within an
by teaching or supervision in their particular educational context. This could be supervision of MSc
professional context within Imperial. This analysis or PhD students, but can also include undergraduates
should be carried out in light of our exploration of or indeed any situation where you are providing
ethical approaches outlined in the pre-reading and support and feedback to others, whether formal or
discussed during the seminar. informal, for example clinical supervision of a junior
colleague.
Students will be required to submit a draft of their
assignment to Blackboard and will receive detailed This topic starts with a seminar session and some
feedback which they can use to amend their work guided reading this aims to allow students to
prior to the final submission. consider their supervisory practices in relation to both
their professional context and some relevant ideas
ECTS credits: 2.5 and educational theory. Participants are required
Word Count: 750-1500 to write an assignment considering their personal
UKPSF indicative mapping: A2, V1, V2, V4 approach to supervision with reference to their
Tutor: Dr Huw Rees professional context and the ideas introduced in the
seminar and reading.
Educational Supervision
Intended Learning Outcomes:
Aims By the end of the topic students will be better able to:
This topic explores questions that arise through 1. Consider what is meant by ‘educational
supervision of students at various stages through supervision’ and relate this to their
undergraduate, masters and PhD level. The workshop supervisory experience and professional
Introduction to Supervising PhD Students at context.
Imperial considers supervision to some extent, but
concentrates explicitly on the practices and processes 2. Reflect on their personal supervisory
of PhD supervision at Imperial. This topic looks experience and review their strategies and
at supervision more generally in terms of ongoing approaches in light of relevant education
longitudinal support of students or juniors and briefly concepts such as:
covers educational ideas such as scaffolding, role - tacit Knowledge and ‘lab culture’
modelling, communities of practice and developing - scaffolding and zone of proximal
independence in that context. development
- communities of practice
- experiential learning
- transformation, independence & identity
3. Thoughtfully examine some of the
assumptions made of supervision in their
personal and wider disciplinary context.
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