There are no pre-requisites for this module to be added

In this module you will continue the in-depth development of your knowledge and practice and extend further your development as a skilled, reflective practitioner in teaching and/or supporting learning in higher education, in alignment with Advance-HE's Professional Standards Framework (PSF 2023).This module will enable you, in collaboration with your peers, to explore in depth the key principles, theories, and concepts relating to learning and teaching in HE as you work to establish habits for continuous enhancement of practice. Including a peer observation of practice and practitioner enquiry, this module supports the further development of your pedagogical knowledge and reflective practice through critical engagement with key principles, concepts, and scholarship in relation to your own context in teaching and supporting learning.Topics covered include a) learning design, b) curriculum development, c) approaches to assessment and feedback d) quality assurance and quality enhancement, e) the broader, global contexts in which higher education operates including internationalisation of HE, equality, diversity and inclusion, ethical teaching, student wellbeing and belonging, and other key debates, initiatives and policies influencing learning and teaching.This module runs across just over 2.5 trimesters, starting in week 5 of Tri2 and completing in week 13 of Tri1. This allows for time to implement learning from your PgCert in your practice and reflect on the outcomes for your final summative reflective account and dialogue.The module is listed as 'in person' because the workshops in the first two weeks are on campus. The remaining sessions will be online.

Upon completion of this module you will be able to

LO1: Critically engage with processes of quality assurance and enhancement.

LO2: Critically engage with approaches to assessment & feedback with appropriate application in your own context.

LO3: Critically explore principles of learning design, applying them to your own practice.

LO4: Enhance your practice through the critical, reflective, and collaborative processes of reciprocal peer observation and feedback.

LO5: Critically engage in designing an investigation into your own teaching practice, identifying appropriate areas of enquiry.

LO6: Demonstrate appropriate knowledge and understanding of pedagogical research methodologies relevant to your practitioner enquiry project.

LO7: Exemplify critical knowledge and understanding of the contexts HE is situated within and key debates.

LO8: Evidence effective and inclusive practice to meet Professional Standards Framework (PSF) Descriptor 2.