Introduction to Academic Practice Day 2

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Introduction to Academic Practice Day 2

• John Peters
• December 2007

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Todays learning outcomes

• Develop personal and professional coping and
  change management strategies within the
  constraints of you institutional setting
• Engage constructively and effectively with
  academic administrative tasks and roles
• Inform your professional role with relevant
  strategy, policy and quality considerations

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Plan

• Feedback and reminder of last time
• Time management and coping
• Change management
• Lunch
• Registry academic administration
• Head of Quality Quality considerations
• Discussion on course progress

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Last Time

• Icebreaker research and teaching
• Research and Scholarship
• Four scholarships
• Research related teaching
• Healey, dimensions of rrt
• Contract drafting
• What, so what, now what?
• Discipline specific resources
• Mentoring

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Boyer Scholarship reconsidered

• Scholarship of
• Discovery research assessment exercise and hard
  research
• Integration Textbooks, making connections
• Teaching and learning scholarly
• Application / Engagement doing, practitioners
• Scholarship a broad idea
• All should be taken seriously and treated in a
  scholarly way
• Glassick criteria for scholarly activity

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Research related teaching

• Mick Healey diagram participants v audience,
  content v processes
• Alan Jenkins research and teaching
• Research based teaching through student research
  
• Research led teach your research
• Research oriented teaching research methods
• Research informed researching teaching learning

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Other work

• Subject specific concerns
• Mentoring
• SCIPS
• HE academy and subject centres
• Portfolios and formative work
• Reflective writing
• Contracting practice
• APEL procedures

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Time management and coping

• Checklist discussion time management
• Work-life balance
• Perspective
• Getting a life!
• Awareness of your core values and dont agree to
  do things that offend them!
• http//www.viasurvey.org/ to get an idea of your
  values