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Professional Values
Professional values are often considered implicit within professional practice, but in your Account of
practice, you need to explain how they inform your work. It is acknowledged, however, that individuals are
likely to place different emphases and importance on particular Values depending on the nature and context
of their work. Moreover, it can be difficult to provide evidence of how work is informed by particular Values.
Professional Value 1: Respect individual students and diverse learning communities
This value is concerned with how teaching and supporting learning incorporate activities, actions and
approaches which respect individual students. Your Account should demonstrate how this value influences
the way in which you communicate and interact with individuals and different communities in the context of
teaching and supporting learning. The term ‘diverse learning communities’ might include campus-based
groups of students, electronic communities, work based communities, or be defined on the basis of
ethnicity, faith, social class or age.
Professional Value 2: Promote participation in higher education and equality of opportunity for students
Here you should make clear how a commitment to participation in Higher Education and equality of
opportunity for students informs your work. There is potential to cover a broad spectrum of activities,
approaches and behaviours linked to all the Areas of Activity and Core Knowledge.
Professional Value 3: Use evidence informed approaches and the outcomes from research, scholarship
and continuing professional development
This value advocates the importance of direct professional involvement in enquiry. It is concerned with using
the outcomes from research, scholarship and professional development to make principled, informed and
considered judgements which enhance practice and the learning experience. So, you need here to
demonstrate how you draw on sources of evidence to inform your work and how you contribute to those
sources.
The evidence you refer to might include consideration and application of the findings from studies, reading,
personal enquiry regarding (for example) teaching, learning, students, the subject, the environment etc. to
enhance practice and the student learning experience. Using one’s own discipline based research to enhance
the curriculum should be informed by reading or research about curriculum design, the nature of the subject
itself and the students in order to provide a rationale for the design of the curriculum and its delivery.
Professional Value 4: Acknowledges the wider context in which higher education operates recognising the
implications for professional practice.
This value is concerned with being alert to matters that may have an impact on institutional missions, or
curriculum design, or personal and collective practice. This might for example include the demands of the
Disability Discrimination Act, Professional Body requirements for your discipline, the employment agenda, or
the widening access and participation agenda. Current agendas include sustainability (the practice of
sustainability and education for sustainability) and student engagement.
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Professional values are often considered implicit within professional practice, but in your Account of
practice, you need to explain how they inform your work. It is acknowledged, however, that individuals are
likely to place different emphases and importance on particular Values depending on the nature and context
of their work. Moreover, it can be difficult to provide evidence of how work is informed by particular Values.
Professional Value 1: Respect individual students and diverse learning communities
This value is concerned with how teaching and supporting learning incorporate activities, actions and
approaches which respect individual students. Your Account should demonstrate how this value influences
the way in which you communicate and interact with individuals and different communities in the context of
teaching and supporting learning. The term ‘diverse learning communities’ might include campus-based
groups of students, electronic communities, work based communities, or be defined on the basis of
ethnicity, faith, social class or age.
Professional Value 2: Promote participation in higher education and equality of opportunity for students
Here you should make clear how a commitment to participation in Higher Education and equality of
opportunity for students informs your work. There is potential to cover a broad spectrum of activities,
approaches and behaviours linked to all the Areas of Activity and Core Knowledge.
Professional Value 3: Use evidence informed approaches and the outcomes from research, scholarship
and continuing professional development
This value advocates the importance of direct professional involvement in enquiry. It is concerned with using
the outcomes from research, scholarship and professional development to make principled, informed and
considered judgements which enhance practice and the learning experience. So, you need here to
demonstrate how you draw on sources of evidence to inform your work and how you contribute to those
sources.
The evidence you refer to might include consideration and application of the findings from studies, reading,
personal enquiry regarding (for example) teaching, learning, students, the subject, the environment etc. to
enhance practice and the student learning experience. Using one’s own discipline based research to enhance
the curriculum should be informed by reading or research about curriculum design, the nature of the subject
itself and the students in order to provide a rationale for the design of the curriculum and its delivery.
Professional Value 4: Acknowledges the wider context in which higher education operates recognising the
implications for professional practice.
This value is concerned with being alert to matters that may have an impact on institutional missions, or
curriculum design, or personal and collective practice. This might for example include the demands of the
Disability Discrimination Act, Professional Body requirements for your discipline, the employment agenda, or
the widening access and participation agenda. Current agendas include sustainability (the practice of
sustainability and education for sustainability) and student engagement.
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