YSJ, Academic Development Programme
Professional Development for Learning, Teaching and Research
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CPD Week Smörgåsbord – Day 2
September 21, 2021 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
The second day of a week-long CPD event, hosted by Learning and Teaching Lead, Dr Katy Bloom.
Each of the sessions listed below will begin with delivery by one or more CPD facilitators for (approximately) the first hour, followed by the opportunity to put your new learning directly into practice during the second hour in a consolidation activity and beyond.
Alternatively, you could join a ‘sharing good practice’ talk space where participants across university disciplines can talk about their practice, challenges and achievements within certain key areas.
To book onto one of the sessions below, please click here. Please be aware that all sessions will be recorded.
Tuesday 21st September, 10.00-12.00
| Session | Facilitator | Summary | Consolidation activity |
| ITE School Experience PebblePad Workbook
**please note that this is specific for ITE staff |
Lauren McCarthy & Keither Parker | Join us for a walk-through and update of the PebblePad workbook that has been designed to support students on ITE placements. | Consider how the reflective tool on Pebble Pad might be used to encourage student teachers to develop pedagogic skills – use in conjunction with the newly-developed school experience formative assessment continuum. |
| Co-constructing success criteria with students | Katy Bloom | By the end of the session participants will be able to think about different ways to:
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Choose a (lower stakes) assessment with a tutor on the same module and apply the principles of these activities with your students. Ask for their feedback on the process and develop their sense of the differences between grade criteria. Consider what your evidence of outcomes could be; perhaps a quantitative comparison to the last cohort’s outcomes. |
| ‘Talk about’/SGP:
Decolonisation |
Chaired by Manjinder Jagdev | Urgent and essential efforts to decolonise curriculums might have a better chance of succeeding if they changed their language, if campaigners talked about widening curriculums rather than decolonizing them: for that is what decolonizing involves. It is entirely possible to teach the canon and also give students a sense of what sits outside it, to teach the extraordinary and prizewinning works of Naipaul, Ishiguro and Zadie Smith, for example, alongside those of Dickens and Joyce.” Sathnam Sanghera, author (from his book Empireland).
What can we do practically about many of these issues and what have we achieved so far? |
Attendees to contribute to and discuss the Padlets created within YSJ.
Explore current approaches (e.g., reading lists) and research how these may be widened. |