Together we are strong': peer support for learning and teaching development

A one-day conference for library and information professionals

Organised by the University of Northampton and De Montfort University

De Montfort University, Leicester 8th June 2006 9.30 - 4.00

For many staff working in library and information services our experience of teaching and learning can be episodic and fragmented.  Rather than owning sections of the curriculum we are guest lecturers, visiting speakers or specialist advisers to course teams.  How does the nature of this input influence our development as experienced teachers and learning facilitators? 

The conference, organised by two National Teaching Fellows, is intended to provide an opportunity for library and information professionals working in higher education to learn and reflect on approaches to peer support for learning and teaching development.  It will cover a variety of approaches on learning and teaching development and provide an opportunity to exchange experience not only with other library and information services staff working in higher education but also with a wider academic community. 

This event is supported by HEA SPS funding and the 'Infoteach' NTF project (www.infoteach.org)

Programme

9.30  Arrival and registration

10.00 Formal welcome

10.15 Organising Peer Support to Develop Teaching and Learning for Librarians and Information Professionals

      David Gosling, Higher Education Consultant, Visiting Research Fellow, University of Plymouth. A review of some approaches to peer review of teaching, including the place of peer observation of teaching, and some alternative ways of managing peer support in order to gain the maximum benefit from the commitment of time involved.

11.00 Coffee

11.15 Workshops 1: Practical approaches and initiatives

      Running an action learning set, Sally Patalong, Coventry University

      Online interactive support and development

      Exchange of experience on staff development for learning and teaching, Margaret Oldroyd, De Montfort University

12.45 Lunch

1.45  HILT: Cardiff's handbook for information literacy

      Nigel Morgan, Cardiff University

2.15  Workshops 2: Collaborative practice development

      Peer observation, Jane Clarke, Academic Professional Development Unit, De Montfort University

      Building a teaching team, Chris Powis, University of Northampton

      Personal action planning - a mini-life coaching session, Rachel Higdon, Academic Professional Development Unit, De Montfort University

3.45  Tea and close

About the plenary speakers

David Gosling taught in Secondary, Further and Higher Education in the UK and Africa for 20 years - principally at North Staffordshire Polytechnic/Staffordshire University where he became the University's Teaching and Learning Co-ordinator. From 1993 he was Head of Educational Development at University of East London until 2002 when he became Co-Director of the Teaching Quality Enhancement Fund National Co-ordination Team.  He is now a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Plymouth researching innovation and conceptions of excellence in higher education. Among his recent publications are 'Improving Teaching and Learning in Higher Education: a whole institution approach' (with Vaneeta D'Andrea) Open University Press, 2005 and 'Peer Observation of Teaching' SEDA, 2005.

Nigel Morgan is Information Specialist in the Science / Biomedical Sciences libraries at Cardiff University and he is a Registered Practitioner of the Higher Education Academy. Nigel's professional interests include developing information literacy within the biosciences and exploring the effects of music in information skills teaching. He is best known as the populariser of the interactive Cephalonian method now widely used at induction.

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Chris Powis

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University of Northampton

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Academic Services Manager and National Teaching Fellow Kimberlin Library, De Montfort University The Gateway, Leicester LE1 9BH

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