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Engage in continuing professional development in subjects/disciplines and their
pedagogy, incorporating research, scholarship and the evaluation of professional
practices
This Area of Activity is about how you maintain and develop your capability to perform your teaching and
learning support roles. It includes:
• How you incorporate subject and pedagogic research and/or scholarship within your role as a
teacher/supporter of learning
• How you gather and utilise information from your own activities
Group and team activities are valued. You don't have to be directly involved in research and if this is the
case, please indicate how you support your teaching and support of learning through other types of
scholarly and/or professional activity. Relevant professional activities may include those you engage in
outside the higher education context.
For example, you might:
• participate in activities to extend professional development e.g. workshops run by the EDU,
Graduate School, your faculty or department;
• be involved in/have completed a relevant teaching pathway e.g. the Supporting Learning and
Teaching Programme run by the EDU;
• attend, or present at, teaching and learning conferences.
Introduction
Your main strategies for updating and developing your capability as a teacher/supporter of
learning (≤ 100 words).
For example, attending staff development activities or conferences on learning and teaching or
participation in projects to develop learning methods.
Main section (600 words).
Use the following headings as guidance (note that not all may be relevant to your role)
• How you used the outcomes from the above CPD strategies to improve the student
learning experience and your own working practice.
• Which elements of Core Knowledge you utilised, how and why.
• Which Professional Values you applied, how and why.
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pedagogy, incorporating research, scholarship and the evaluation of professional
practices
This Area of Activity is about how you maintain and develop your capability to perform your teaching and
learning support roles. It includes:
• How you incorporate subject and pedagogic research and/or scholarship within your role as a
teacher/supporter of learning
• How you gather and utilise information from your own activities
Group and team activities are valued. You don't have to be directly involved in research and if this is the
case, please indicate how you support your teaching and support of learning through other types of
scholarly and/or professional activity. Relevant professional activities may include those you engage in
outside the higher education context.
For example, you might:
• participate in activities to extend professional development e.g. workshops run by the EDU,
Graduate School, your faculty or department;
• be involved in/have completed a relevant teaching pathway e.g. the Supporting Learning and
Teaching Programme run by the EDU;
• attend, or present at, teaching and learning conferences.
Introduction
Your main strategies for updating and developing your capability as a teacher/supporter of
learning (≤ 100 words).
For example, attending staff development activities or conferences on learning and teaching or
participation in projects to develop learning methods.
Main section (600 words).
Use the following headings as guidance (note that not all may be relevant to your role)
• How you used the outcomes from the above CPD strategies to improve the student
learning experience and your own working practice.
• Which elements of Core Knowledge you utilised, how and why.
• Which Professional Values you applied, how and why.
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