Academic Development Directorate @ York St John University

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Author: Gabby Wilson

On 11/05/17 York St John hosted the inaugural Learning and Teaching Conference titled: ‘Formulating excellence in inclusive learning, teaching and assessment practice: have we reached the tipping point in higher education?’ Professor Alan Hurst’s opening address focused on ‘Reflections on 45 years’ of practice: 71-17 from then to today’. The […]

Inclusive Learning and Teaching Conference

May 26, 2017 in Events tagged conference / event / Learning and Teaching by Gabby Wilson

Lunchtime Session with Dr Alison Laver Fawcett, Monday 8 May from 12:00-13:00 in SK036 How do we facilitate our students to become passionate about learning, capable of investigating new problems and ideas? In this session we will discuss the Higher of Education Academy (HEA; 2015) ‘Framework for Student engagement through […]

SCoRe

March 27, 2017 in Events / Learning and Teaching tagged Events / HEA / Learning and Teaching by Gabby Wilson

On 16th March, I attended the Higher Education Beyond Fellowship Conference at Conference Aston, Birmingham. The event gathers together colleagues from across the UK who are involved in academic development, mainly those who are responsible for leading postgraduate certificates or internal CPD schemes. There was good representation from York […]

Higher Education Beyond Fellowship Conference

March 20, 2017 in Events / HEA Fellowship (YSJ CPD Framework) / Learning and Teaching tagged conference / CPD / HEA by Gabby Wilson

This is a question we often get asked, particularly by new staff. It’s a good question and worthy of clarification, which is the intention of this post. The Academic Development Directorate provides a large and varied range of development opportunities for both new and more experienced academic staff. Two of […]

PCAP and the CPD framework – what’s the difference?

March 13, 2017 in HEA Fellowship (YSJ CPD Framework) tagged CPD / Fellowship / HEA / PCAP by Gabby Wilson

During the coming months, ADD will be running two masterclasses for staff to attend. The first will be hosted by Corony Edwards who will talk about ‘Measuring Learning Gain in Higher Education’ on the 28th March. Sally Brown will host the second and discuss ‘Assessment to Support Retention’ on the 26th […]

Masterclasses

February 9, 2017 in Events / Learning and Teaching tagged assessment / Events / learning gain / masterclass / retention by Gabby Wilson

Talking about Teaching 2017 took place on Friday 20 January 2017. The theme was York St John Graduate Attributes. The day started with a welcome and introduction from Professor Alyson Tobin, Deputy Vice Chancellor, and Mandy Asghar, Director of Academic Development. The Keynote was delivered by Higher Education Consultant, Helen Beetham and […]

Talking About Teaching

January 25, 2017 in Events / Learning and Teaching tagged Events / Talking About Teaching by Gabby Wilson

Talking About Teaching: Exploring Graduate Attributes, York St John University, 20th January 2017 TAT is York St John University’s annual Learning & Teaching conference. If you want the opportunity to share good practice with like-minded professionals, to help generate discussion and debate, or wish to present your recent research […]

Talking About Teaching 2017

October 17, 2016 in Events tagged Events / learning / teaching by Gabby Wilson

As a New Year begins at York St John University you cannot help but notice all the changes happening on campus. But it’s not just the buildings that are changing, the staff body is too. For a while now there have been adjustments to the University structure and 5th September marked […]

New Year, New Team

October 10, 2016 in Contributors / Learning and Teaching / News tagged organisation / staff / structure / team by Gabby Wilson

Earlier this year, I attended the 2nd Research Reflections conference at York St John University, hosted on Thursday 8th September 2016 by the Academic Development Directorate. As part of the administrative staff here at York St John, I have been highly involved in organising and running research events, but this […]

Research Reflections 2016

October 3, 2016 in Events / Learning and Teaching / News / Research tagged conference / event / Research by Gabby Wilson