2. Associate Fellowship
• Successful engagement in
• two areas of activity
• appropriate teaching and related
practices
• appropriate core knowledge (at least
K1/2)
• appropriate professional values
• relevant professional
practices/research/ scholarship
• CPD in teaching, learning and
assessment activities
Fellowship
• Successful engagement in
• five areas of activity
• appropriate teaching and related
practices
• all core knowledge
• all professional values
• incorporation of research/
scholarship within activities
• CPD in teaching, learning and
assessment activities & related
professional practices where
appropriate
D1 and D2 requirements
3. The Swansea Assessment Criteria
• Clear evidence of their impact on the student learning
experience
• A personal account, demonstrating their commitment to
learning and teaching
• A reflective account, demonstrating their actions in terms
of improving their teaching, learning or assessment
practice and/or impact on others
• For Senior Fellows – leadership of others in HE
4. • I. Successful engagement across all five
Areas of Activity
• II. Appropriate knowledge and
understanding across all aspects of Core
Knowledge
• III. A commitment to all the Professional
Values
• IV. Successful engagement in appropriate
teaching practices related to the Areas of
Activity
• V. Successful incorporation of subject
and pedagogic research and/or
scholarship within the above activities, as
part of an integrated approach to
academic practice
• VI. Successful engagement in
continuing professional development
in relation to teaching, learning,
assessment, scholarship and, as
appropriate, related academic or
professional practices
• VII. Successful co-ordination, support,
supervision, management and/ or
mentoring of others (whether
individuals and/or teams) in relation
to teaching and learning
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D3 requirements
5. D3.7 Successful coordination, support,
supervision, management and/or mentoring
of others (whether individuals and/or teams)
in relation to teaching and learning
At Descriptor 3, it is particularly important to
demonstrate how you know your practice has
influenced others, been effective and
generated impact.
This is the overarching descriptor and evidence
for this should be found across the application.
It is the essential distinguishing characteristic of
the Senior Fellow.
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Key Characteristics of SFHEA (D3)
6. It is essential that Senior Fellows provide evidence of
having accessed and utilised external advice and
guidance based on educational scholarship and likely
that they themselves will be undertaking some kind of
research which may well (though this is not essential)
include research for publication in peer review journals.
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Scholarship for SFHEA (D3)
The differences between D1 (Associate Fellow) and D2 (Fellowship are outlined above.)
D1 could be considered a subset of D2.
Associate Fellows – 2 areas of activity – any two
Depends on the person’s role as to what can be achieve.
Non academic staff such as technicians, librarians, careers advisers, etc – because the particular activities they have means they don’t get sufficient evidence to qualify for all 5 areas of activities.
and at least knowledge of K1 The subject material And K2 – Appropriate methods for teaching, learning and assessing in the subject area and at the level of the academic programme
The breaking up of A1-A5 can be helpful, but also can be difficult.
Relevant professional practices/research/scholarship and CPD in LTA and Assessment – these two are usually the ones causing the most problems, in both application and assessment.
We don’t mean that you are the foremost research in the subject and a lot of pedagogical work.
Scholarship to be the range of professional information and things I need to know to be able to carry out the job effectively.
Show clip from E stream 16.57 – 20.58 Example of the technician in the computer lab and the relevant scholarship and also the accountant and tax laws
See Chapter entitled ‘Examples of Scholarship and CPD”
https://mrclabsestream.swan.ac.uk/view.aspx?id=5701~4n~NRVA9cmG&chapID=32
The category requirements are outlined in the A5 Handout BUT
These are outlined at the
end of the Word application
and Pebble+ Applicant Checklist,
they have the added General Principles that I’ve just spoken about as part of the Assessment Rubric.
D3 is so broad.
Need to demonstrate all the same attributes of D2 but with the addition of how my leadership influences all of the above. It is not something that is just stuck on the end, it must filter through each of the other areas od activity.
There will be considerable variation in applications, reflecting differences in individuals’ experience, their job roles and institutional contexts. The reflective commentary and two case studies enable such diversity to be appropriately represented
What were the leadership approaches that they took and what was the impact and how did they know. Be careful with postgrads as examples. You need to think about relationships, if they are discussing the group of post graduates in terms of them supervising, then that is learning and teaching. If they are using a postgrad as a co teacher, doing seminars then that is a professional relationship, that is mentoring of colleagues.
The quality of the evidence is much more important than the quantity of examples provided
Where is isn’t necessary for D2 it is essential for D3. with senior fellowship, it is more about “I am the influence”, so it is vital to demonstrate what the evidence based influence was that instigated what they are discussing. They could be illustrating some form of action research, where they identified a problem or area of improvement, they would then discuss the intervention that they put in place, all the time they would be reflecting on the processes involved, whilst referring to the evidence provided by relevant literature to support their ideas and methods.
Not hard research, most likely to be AR but it could be publication. By publication is could just be dissemination, but could be evidence
What is Action Research? AR is a practical approach to professional inquiry in any social situation. Here it relates to education and are therefore of particular relevance to teachers or lecturers engaged in their daily contact with students. But professional practice need not be teaching: it may be management or administration in a school or college, or it may be in an unrelated area, such as medicine or the social services. The context for professional inquiry might change, but the principles and processes involved in action research are the same, regardless of the nature of the practice.