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.

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…

Teesside University Conference: Enhancing Student Success for Education 4.0

Teesside University Conference: Enhancing Student Success for Education 4.0

CALL FOR PAPERS: With an increasing global focus on teaching excellence and at a time of intense development in the HE policy landscape in the UK, Universities are taking steps to ensure that they are meeting the demands of public measures that differentiate their value and deliver on quality experiences focused on achieving student success…

Professional Development through Learning and Teaching for Postgraduate Research Students (PGR’s)

Post Graduate Research Students can and do play an integral role in teaching and supporting learning here at Teesside University. As an Institution we value and recognise this contribution and in consultation with key stakeholders across the University have produced a paper formally capturing the support in learning and teaching available to our Post Graduate Research Students…..

New LTE Bites Staff Learning and Teaching Resources Now Available via LTE Online

Teesside University staff attending a CPD session

LTE Bites represents Academic Registry’s ongoing commitment to providing the highest quality pedagogic support and guidance to academic staff. Comprising a series of practical resources designed to engage university staff with the latest pedagogic thinking, research and practice both institutionally and from a wider sector perspective, LTE Bites will eventually take a variety of different forms, available via LTE online, to ensure resources are accessible and responsive to the needs of our staff…

Supporting International Students in Personal Tutorials – 12th December 2019

In this webinar, the speakers will discuss the importance of supporting international students through personal tutoring and give an insight into the types of support commonly sought by international student cohorts. They will also provide some case studies and examples of how personal tutoring can be tailored to support students from a wide range of backgrounds…