Inspiring Educator? want national recognition? This is the event for you…Wednesday 7th June Invitation to the ‘Aspiring National Teaching Fellows’ networking event, run by NTFs for aspiring NTFs’

Are you an inspiring educator? Start to build your profile towards a national Teaching fellowship – a scheme run by the Higher Education Academy to recognise and reward excellent in teaching.

Bournemouth University are hosting a free networking event; designed to give you the tools and techniques to develop a national profile. Come along and find out more:

Wednesday 7th June Invitation to the ‘Aspiring Teaching Fellows’ networking event, run by NTFs for aspiring NTFs’

This event aims to support staff who wish to develop a national profile and who aim to pursue a National Teaching Fellowship. The event will provide networking opportunities and will offer discussion of examples of excellent pedagogic practice that all may learn from.

The event will draw together HE colleagues, including a number of National Teaching Fellows (NTFs), from across a range of institutions and disciplines across the southern region. The event aims to be the first of a number of southern events that hopefully will develop to support and promote excellence in learning and teaching. The event aims to build NTF capacity – to develop a vibrant network of ‘local’ NTFs that can support and work collaboratively with colleagues across the region.

Highlights:

·         40 free places to regional colleagues

·         Location: Bournemouth University Executive Business Centre second floor– 5 minutes walk from the train station

·         Keynote from Chair of the National Teaching Fellows Professor Sally Brown

·         Optional gala dinner – further details to follow

Please book through Eventbrite:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/aspiring-national-teaching-fellows-southern-region-event-tickets-33271860029

 

Indicative Timetable
9.30-10.00         Enrolment & refreshments
10.00-10.15       Welcome: Professor Stephen Tee, Dean of Faculty of Health and Social Sciences,

Bournemouth University

Introduction: Professor Debbie Holley (Bournemouth University) and Dr Kirsten Hardie, Associate Professor (Arts University Bournemouth)

10.15 -11.00      Keynote speaker: Professor Sally Brown, Chair of the Committee of the Association of National Teaching Fellows – the National Teaching Fellowship Scheme

o          an overview of the NTF Scheme and the nomination process

o          discussion of how an application can be developed; examples of the level of evidence required;

o          consideration of how to develop work towards an NTF nomination

 

11.00 – 11.15     Refreshments
11.15 – 12.15     Questions and Answers – National Teaching Fellowships
12.15 -13.15      Lunch

 13.15 – 14.00     Pecha Kucha – all delegates in groups
14.00 -15.00      Session: Professor Sally Brown – Getting published

15.00 – 15.15     Refreshments
15.15 -16.30      Excellence in pedagogic approaches – case studies (parallel sessions)

 

                        Dr Viv Rolfe NTF The Open Text Books Initiative (UWE)

                        Dr Kirsten Hardie NTF Object-Based Learning

                        Professor Debbie Holley NTF: The affordances of google cardboard

                        Further speakers to be announced

16.30                Thanks and close

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