We are delighted to announce that the UKAT Annual Conference is returning as a physical conference this year and will be held at Swansea University on 3 & 4 April 2023. The theme of the conference is Personal Tutoring: Enhancing Outcomes for All Students…
Teesside University has recently renewed its UKAT Institutional Membership which enables our Institution to benefit from a wide variety of networking opportunities, and to collaborate and share practices that support student success with expert tutors and advisors across the sector. We hope that colleagues find this UKAT institutional membership to be a valuable resource and encourage all Teesside University staff to take full advantage of the member-exclusive courses, events and resources which UKAT provide.
In the first LTExChange Network Research Talk of the year, Professor Lydia Arnold (Director of Education, Harper Adams University) introduces and discusses what it means to ‘do’ pedagogic action research in higher education…
It is well recognised that teaching International Students and having a culturally diverse classroom are extremely rewarding, but also present challenges, both for academics and students. Such challenges will be daunting for those who have limited experience of supporting and teaching International Students, but also for students experiencing for the first time an international, culturally diverse classroom…
This session will focus on information for student facing staff who might be presented with a student in distress. The session aims to inform staff about strategies they can use to de-escalate a situation and what questions to ask to find out relevant information to refer appropriately. Boundaries will be explored so that staff feel confident about appropriate actions when managing a potential crisis situation and can identify when specialist intervention is required. The session will inform staff how to refer to appropriate services both within TU and externally.
During the 2022-23 academic year, the LTExChange Network will focus on supporting and advancing “Inclusive Communities of Learning”. The LTExChange Symposia Series will provide the primary vehicle for this work, bringing together and engaging key stakeholders to support new thinking
These workshops are specifically for colleagues who would like to seek formal recognition for the work they do in teaching and supporting learning in HE. Teesside University Professional Development Framework for Teaching and Supporting Learning: Recognising Excellence in Learning and Teaching (RELT) is accredited by Advance HE and provides participants with the opportunity to be professionally recognised through Advance HE’s Fellowship Scheme….
Its nearly time for the Three Rivers Conference 2022: ‘Engaging Students: Building Communities’, 29 June 2022
Building upon the success of previous partnership events held by the region’s Universities (Teesside, Durham, Newcastle, Sunderland, and Northumbria), our theme for 2022 is ‘Engaging Students: Building Communities’. Three Rivers 2022 will be hosted online by Northumbria University…
This sixty-minute session will introduce staff to the basics of Blackboard Ultra – Teesside University’s Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). For more information click here…
Our next free webinar is: Understanding Reflection and its Relationship with the Personal Tutor Role, on Thursday 16th June at 14:00. Click here to register…
