A professional development conference will be held at Staffordshire
University on Tuesday 29th June 2004.

The key note address will be delivered by Noel Entwistle entitled Teaching-
learning environments to support deep learning.

Noel Entwistle is Professor Emeritus of Education at the University of
Edinburgh.  He is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society, the
Scottish Council for Educational Research, and the Society for Research
into Higher Education as well as past Editor of the British Journal of
Educational Psychology and Higher Education.  His main research interests
have been in the identification and measurement of approaches to studying
in higher education, and in exploring the influences on those approaches in
terms of the interactions between students’ own characteristics and the
teaching and assessment procedures they experience.  He is currently co-
director of a four-year ESRC research project on ‘Enhancing teaching-
learning environments in undergraduate degree courses’ within the Teaching
and Learning Research Programme.

Participants will then attend one of the following one hour presentations:

1. Reflective practice and educational research as part of CPD - John Cowan

John Cowan (LEARN Unit, UHI Millennium Institute) is a former Scottish
Director and Professor of Learning Development with the Open University. He
still teaches part-time, offers staff development activities, and engages
in research - all of which activity is mainly related to the purposeful
development of capabilities.

2. 'Mentoring, Coaching and Chatting to Friends - How Do You Improve Your
Teaching?' David Leat.

Dr David Leat is Reader in Curriculum Innovation at the University of
Newcastle. His recent publications in the British Educational Research
Journal and the Oxford Review of Education have paid particular attention
to teachers' role in developing students' metacognition. David has
considerable experience in teacher education and has until recently been
seconded as a national consultant for the Department of Education and
Skills' 'Key Stage 3 Strategy'.

3. Peer Observation of Teaching as a Process to Enhance CPD. Linda
Hammersly-Fletcher and Paul Orsmond

Dr. Linda Hammersley-Fletcher is a Senior Lecturer and Researcher within
the Institute for Education Policy Research at Staffordshire University.
She specialises in research and lecturing in all aspects of school
leadership and management with a particular expertise in primary schools.
Linda also has research interests in processes of Assessment and Learning
in Higher Education and in particular systems of Peer Observation.

Paul Orsmond is a Senior Lecturer within the Faculty of Health and Sciences
at Staffordshire University.  His interests are in educational development,
with particular reference to assessment and peer observation. He is a
University Learning and Teaching Fellow.

Please contact Lyn Longhurst on 01782 294872 for further details on this
conference.