TEACHING FELLOWSHIP SCHEME

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TEACHING FELLOWSHIP SCHEME

• Anne Sibbald
• Sandra Cairncross

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BACKGROUND

• Strategy for Learning and Teaching (1994) --
  included recommendation to develop a mechanism
  to
• recognise, reward and promote excellence in
  teaching
• Scheme produced and approved by Academic Board in
  1997
• Senior Teaching Fellows approved in 2002
• Scheme used as model by other HEIs

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NAPIERS TEACHING FELLOWSHIP SCHEME

• The Fellowship exists to recognise and support
  good learning, teaching and assessment throughout
  the University.
• Criterion-based (with no departmental/faculty
  quotas)
• Evidence-based (portfolio and reflective
  commentary)
• External and internal assessors
• Appointment lasts for 5 years but renewable
• Currently 60 Teaching Fellows and 11 Senior
  Teaching Fellows

See http//www.napier.ac.uk/ed/TF/ for further
details
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TEACHING FELLOWSHIP INVOLVEMENT

• What does this mean in practice for individual
  teaching fellows?
• Personal Development
• Reflection, Recognition, (Re)development,
• Promotion
• Engaging with teaching fellow community, wider
  academic community internally and externally
• Developing good practice and sharing good
  practice
• Staff conferences and educational development
  workshops
• Teaching Fellow Journals
• Mentoring
• Educational Research

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INSTITUTIONAL IMPACT OF TEACHING FELLOWSHIP

• Teaching Fellowship scheme commended in 2006 ELIR
  Institutional Review and all subject reviews
• Pivotal to implementation of Napier's LTA
  Strategy (e.g. peer review of teaching)
• Lead School/Faculty Learning Teaching
  committees and initiatives
• Represented (by role) on key university
  committees, including Learning, Teaching and
  Assessment and Academic Board
• Specialist resource (e.g. employability,
  e-learning, educational research, etc)
• High correlation between TF award and internal
  promotion