Partnership Success Stories: Students as Researchers

Partnership Success Stories: Students as Researchers

At the Learning and Teaching conference on Thursday 5th March 2020, Dr Sam Elkington (Principal Lecturer – Learning & Teaching, Academic Registry) will be presenting a session on Partnership Success Stories: Students as Researchers. The Students as Researchers Scheme (SARS) provides opportunities for undergraduate and postgraduate students to work as paid research assistants on a variety of discipline and pedagogic research projects across Schools and Departments. In this student-led session, we hear, first-hand, about the personal experiences of past and current Student Researchers

LTE Conference – Personal Tutoring

LTE Conference – Personal Tutoring

There has been much focus on Personal Tutoring over the last two years. The University’s Personal Tutoring Code of Practice, providing a consistent approach across the University, was implemented in September 2018 and this academic year has seen the launch of StREAM – the learner analytics platform pulling together individual student data reflecting their level of engagement. We have been fortunate to secure two speakers at the forthcoming LTE Conference (taking place on Thursday 5th March) who will be presenting around these areas.

Enhancing Student Health and Wellbeing in the curriculum

Enhancing Student Health and Wellbeing in the curriculum

At the Learning and Teaching conference on Thursday 5th March 2020, Dr Anne Llewellyn will be presenting a session on Enhancing Student Health and Wellbeing in the curriculum.This session will discuss the value of embedding resources in the curriculum to help to prevent some of the significant impact of social and academic transitions into higher education. Resources such as the AMOSSHE Resilience toolkit will be explored within a holistic model of student wellbeing which integrates personal identity into a constructivist paradigm of knowledge gain and skills development. Thursday 5th March is also University Mental Health Day and running alongside this year’s conference are two workshops.

Module Evaluation Surveys : March 2020

Module Evaluation Surveys : March 2020

Module Evaluations are designed to inform the enhancement of learning and teaching across the University, and therefore contribute to the delivery of an outstanding student and learning experience.

Through engaging staff and students in the evaluation and reporting process, module evaluations stimulate meaningful dialogue concerning pedagogic practice and the student experience.

The module survey window for Semester 2 will open on Monday 9th March and close on Sunday 22nd March 2020.

Booking is now open: Teesside University Learning and Teaching Conference 2020

Booking is now open: Teesside University Learning and Teaching Conference 2020

Teesside University’s 2020 Learning and Teaching Conference provides a platform to showcase examples of institutional and practice-level innovations that optimise student success for Education 4.0. Student access to academic resources and wider support throughout the student journey, retention on and completion of programmes of study, and progression and the cumulative achievements in and beyond higher education are all recognised as integral elements of student success…

Upcoming LTE CPD – January

Academic Registry have launched a brochure capturing the suite of LTE CPD that will be running throughout the 2019-20 academic year. There are a range of upcoming LTE CPD opportunities this January. In addition to structured sessions on Personal Tutoring through Stream and the Future Facing Learning Digital Development Programme, there are opportunities to engage in more targeted learning and teaching enhancement in the form of the Teaching Development workshop…