SEDA Plenary

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SEDA Plenary
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Issues

• How to link WP with Learning and Teaching
  Strategies
• We need Management Structures that reflect the
  diversity we are trying to encourage
• How to get people to educational development or
  training events
• How to go about providing development for
  established staff
• Does the language training/education help?
• How do we meet the variety of needs in the
  classroom?
• Increase understanding and usefulness of
  induction
• How to overcome ageism in younger staff
  developers?

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Ideas

• Use and hence value diversity
• Using ethnic mix with fashion students on wedding
  conventions
• Range of languages, teach each other a new word
• Using drama for training / awareness raising
• Good enough is better than excellent
• Effective is good enough
• Creating space to listen to students
• Creating space and structured opportunity for
  staff to learn
• Creating a culture of professional development

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Actions

• Catch my train before I get asked
• Induction evaluate and get back to the real
  point helping students to feel at home
• Support students to run induction
• Facilitate students helping students
• Work to integrate this in the curriculum
• Identify the skills, knowledge and experience the
  students already have
• Value the skills, knowledge and experience
  students already have by using it
• Share ways of managing our managers