” If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.”

by Albert Einstein

My reflection on UK PSF and L&T Strategy

Where am I in the UK PSF: ( I am fitting with these categories of staff description

Descriptor 1 (a- Experienced staff in relevant professional areas who may be new to teaching and/or supporting learning, or who have a limited teaching portfolio) (UK PSF 2011,  Page 4) .

Descriptor 2( c. Experienced academics relatively new to UK higher education, D. Staff with (sometimes significant) teaching-only responsibilities including, for example, within work-based settings.( UK PSF 2011, Page 5)

Descriptor 3 (a. Experienced staff able to demonstrate, impact and influence through, for example, responsibility for leading, managing or organising programmes, subjects and/or disciplinary areas (.( UK PSF 2011, Page 6)

My dimensions of the framework reflect from my role as the diagram show below:

My areas of Activity in my job

A1       I am designing workshops and course for companies in construction.

A2      Deliver training workshops

A3     Assess the course impact and give feedback to the companies.

A4  Effective learning environment in CCI or in the company premises.

MY Core Knowledge:

K1   as a commercial to deliver a training or course we have to provide sufficient materials as references for our training course.

K2  we deliver from 3hr to 6 months learning  courses ( supportive relationship).

K3  as our first step before we deliver the assist for the company we conduct a diagnoses or assessment .

K4  we apply our learning  technology, like KPI engine.

K5 we have and evaluation form for any course, and we measure the impact of the assist.

K6 one of our role to helping most of our companies to be qualified in Quality and get certificate such as ISO.

My Professional Values:

V1& V2  we deal with  variety of companies, different background, different size, national and international, so we apply our E&D strategy.

V3 we apply our research finding and outcomes to shape our assistant, designing project working with national policy and make companies aware with lasted policy in the sector.

V4 as a part of HE institute we are the link between the industry and the academic, so we support/ study the construction sector and  we feed the academic and policy maker with updated issues in the sector.

In the University  strategy (2012-2017)

 

to achive the Goal 1: Learning and Teaching in LT strategy

there are themes for future development, these are

Student focused (Salford students) ( LT strategy 2012-2017, page 9)

1. Personalised support for students from different backgrounds and studying by different modes – e.g. part-time, mature, in-company and at distance in order to learn and develop.

2. Every student provided with online access to module and programme materials and library resources from any location at any time.

3. High quality lecture halls, classrooms, laboratories, library space and other facilities.

4. Supporting student learning with a variety of resources and services.

5. Working in partnership with the Students’ Union to improve students’ experience.

6. Student charter outlining what can be expected in learning partnerships between staff and students

As I am part of Research centre, the centre considered as professional in the university, we working with companies throughout equip the individual and decision maker in these companies which required skills and knowledge to improve their business.

So out target because it is a commercial services it has to be support the learners with variety of resources (hard and soft copy), high quality services and places to deliver the learning courses and workshop. The learning is an share agreement between learners (companies) and facilitator ( university centre)

References:

University of Salford (2011) Learning and teaching strategy( 2012-2017), University of salford , UK, access on http://www.adu.salford.ac.uk/html/aspire/LTStrategy2012-2017.pdf

UK Professional Standards Framework (UKPSF) (2011) access on http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/ukpsf

Learning and Teaching Strategy (2012-2017) salford

The Learning and Teaching Strategy has four themes:

1) recruiting and supporting staff in the provision of a high quality learning environment;

2) promoting a high quality learning and teaching experience by institutionalising quality improvement

3) developing the curriculum to produce a high quality portfolio of programmes

4) managing the learning and teaching environment and infrastructure.

example of this strategy

http://www.york.ac.uk/media/staffhome/learningandteaching/documents/landtstrategy.pdf

 

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(Ethel Barrymore Quotes)

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself

(Galilei)