The design of the HEA Fellowship Programme Workshops provides explicit opportunities for you to make clear association between the Programme Workshops, your own teaching practice and the relevant UKPSF Descriptor for you.
You will be participating in a range of activities which will help you brainstorm, reflect, identify evidence of your professional practice that map with the Dimensions and relevant Descriptor of UKPSF, select most appropriate examples, write reflectively on your own practices with the support of feedbacks and comments from teachers and peers. This would include scrutinizing examples that are effective and not so effective. Discussions on strong and not so strong sample case studies will be conducted.
Upon successful completion of the Fellowship Programme Workshops, you should be able to:
- explain the different Dimensions of the Framework and Descriptors in the UKPSF;
- determine the most appropriate category of HEA Fellowship based on your own teaching and learning experience and practices;
- identify evidence of your professional practice that map with the Dimensions and relevant Descriptor of UKPSF; and
- write reflectively on one’s practices and teaching experiences.
Content areas covered by the Programme Workshops are:
- UKPSF with its Dimensions of Framework and the four Descriptors
- Distinctions across the different categories of Fellowships
- Support in choosing the appropriate Descriptor using the Fellowship Category Tool
- Different stages and timeline of the journey in claiming the fellowship
- Mapping of the Areas of Activities with the Core Knowledge and Professional Value
- Assessment processes
- Planning and developing of the Account of Professional Practice (APP) for participants
- Targeting different descriptors
- Generating examples as evidence of engagement with the UKPSF
- Using pedagogical theories and research to underpin the APP
- The self-tracking index against the target Descriptor Criteria
- Guidelines on selection of referees and Supporting Statements