This three-day course is designed to provide high quality personal and professional development for colleagues working as staff and educational developers in higher education – including HE in FE. It is aimed at individuals with less than three years experience in this role. The course is suitable for people working in a range of contexts, including:
Participants will benefit from a course that is highly participative and practical. Over the three days, participants will develop and deepen the skills and conceptual frameworks necessary to plan, run and evaluate successful educational development activities and projects. After each workshop session, participants will consider ways to apply their new learning to their own professional contexts. There will be opportunities for small group work, and tutorial time with an experienced developer, to support participants in planning how to take what they have learned back into their workplaces.
Workshop sessions will be both practice based and grounded in research on learning and teaching. Sessions will be facilitated by a number of highly experienced developers, and will themselves model a variety of active and reflective learning techniques that participants will then be able to use. A full programme will be available in due course.
We are delighted that the same team that facilitated the very successful and highly-rated SEDA Summer School ’06 has been able to come back together again to facilitate the Summer School of ’07. They very much look forward to you joining them for another rewarding event of personal and professional development, growth and transformation. For further details of the facilitation team, click here.
Very positive feedback from previous participants indicates that they have particularly valued their opportunities to step back from day-to-day business; to gain new skills and professional confidence; to network; and to leave with focused, practical plans ready for implementation. Click here to read some of the feedback received about the 2006 Summer School.
DAY 1KEY ISSUES IN DEVELOPMENT WORK:
What is the scope and range of (Higher) Education Development for us today?
And what are the different ways in which we come to understand this?
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10.30-11.00
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Registration and refreshments |
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11.00-12.30
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Introduction to the event and to each other.
Thinking about how to get the best out of the next three days:
Your project development journey.
First thoughts about articulating your own education development project / initiative that will form your focus for applying your learning over the next three days
Project checkpoint 1: Initial scope, focus and vision
All facilitators
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12.30-13.30
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Lunch |
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13.30-15.00
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Three lenses on our work as educational developers:
Exploring educational development and learning 1:
Reflecting and acting on content, process and premise
Magnus Gustafsson & Neill Thew
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15.00-15.30
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Refreshments |
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15.30-17.00
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Three lenses on our work as educational developers:
Exploring educational development and learning 2
Project checkpoint 2: (Re-)Framing your projects – identifying central questions, issues and problems
Magnus & Neill
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17.00-17.20
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Refreshments |
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17.30-18.30
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Facilitated reflection time in small groups
“Standing in your shoes” – peer feedback on project work thus far
All facilitators
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18.30-19.00
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Reconvene – rising issues – writing feedback cards on Day 1
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19.00 – whenever
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Dinner … bar … sleep! J
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DAY 2PLANNING, DELIVERING AND EVALUATING SUCCESSFUL EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS AND “INTERVENTIONS” |
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9.00-9.20
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Reading feedback cards from Day 1
Setting the agenda for Day 2
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9.20-10.30
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Goal setting and evaluation in educational development projects 1
David Baume, FSEDA
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10.30-11.00
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Refreshments |
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11.00-12.30
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Goal setting and evaluation in educational development projects 2
David
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12.30-13.30
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Lunch |
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13.30-14.30
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Facilitated tutorial groups
Project checkpoint 3: goals, targets, feasibility and manageability
All facilitators
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14.30-15.00
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“Rolling” Refreshments |
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15.00-17.00
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Working as an effective facilitator
Sue Orton
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17.00-17.30
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Refreshments
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17.30-18.30
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Project checkpoint 4 (a): planning milestones and first steps
Project checkpoint 4 (b): considering your own level of “informedness” for undertaking your projects – identifying areas for personal / professional development (preparation for Day 3)
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18.30-19.00
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Writing feedback cards on Day 2 & any rising issues |
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19.00-whenever
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Same as day 1 – for those with the stamina … !
Or … (entirely optionally) … time for some finishing touches to your projects!
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DAY 3DEVELOPING OURSELVES, SUPPORTING EACH OTHER, AND PLANNING TO RETURN “HOME” |
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9.00-9.20
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Reading feedback cards from Day 2
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9.20-10.30
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Avoiding the “Humpty-Dumpty” syndrome: or … don’t set yourself up for a fall!
Personal and Professional Coping and Development Strategies
Neill
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10.30-10.50
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Refreshments
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10.50-11.50
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Facilitated tutorial groups:
Peer presentations of projects and peer feedback
All facilitators
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11.50-12.30
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Closing circle
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12.30-13.30
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Lunch and Depart |
A member of the International Consortium for Educational Development