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Welcome to the ToT-PhD-supervisor Course

January 29th –February 1st, 2013Arusha

Jens Dolin and Robert Evans

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Tot PhD Supervision Arusha January 29 to February 1, 2013

Jens Dolin and Bob Evans

Intended Learning Outcomes - Be aware of your own common styles and how they can be adapted with the use of techniques and

tools, based on your understanding of learning in research education

1. Intro of course (research aspects) and participants 2. The institutional context (homework: boxes pp 24, 27 and 31) 3. Initial Self-perception and personal experiences with supervision

(work-sheet and discussions of personal experiences of supervision)

4. The disciplinary context (box page 37) 5. Outcomes and capabilities 6. Expectations

Intended Learning Outcomes - Be able to use meta-communication as a means to consciously change perspectives, talk about

supervisionand adapt supervisory style - Discussing different ways to give and receive feedback - Developing a practice for collegial help - Based in this day you learn how to give and receive feedback on real supervision problems

7. Supervisory styles 8. Comparing supervisory styles with student’s status 9. Meta-communication and Postures 10. Classification of feedback 11. Key elements of supervision 12. Supervisory roles

Intended Learning Outcomes - Synthesize what is good feedback and how can a problem be understood - Conceptualize how self-efficacy beliefs affect both your own success as a supervisor and your

students’ success to complete their PhD - Based on this day you learn why dialogue is important and how the way we talk about problems

influence our ability to solve them. Further, you learn how to use self-efficacy in your PhD supervision

13. Problem focused supervision in a group 14. Collegial help with PhD supervision achievements 15. Self-efficacy

Intended Learning Outcomes - Detecting and discussing the institutional constraints and opportunities for your possibility of

applying the things you have learned at this course - Setting the scene for the interim period and work forward to the second course - Based on this day you are ready to go back and start the work towards better supervision at your

institution

16. SWOT analysis 17. Feedback sheet on phases for capacity building 18. Useful elements exercise 19. Evaluations and closing session

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Outline of course

This is part one of three parts:

I Course 1, Arusha 29-01 – 01-02 2013II Interim periodIII Course 2, 8-4 – 11-4 2013

Overall goal of the courseI To establish the foundation for being an exellent PhD supervisorII to try out this foundation and to adapt it to your local institutionIII Based on these experineces, to design your own supervisor course

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Learning objectives of today

• Be able to engage in dialogue about your own experiences with supervision and reflect on others’ experiences

• Be aware of your own common supervision styles and how they can be adapted with the use of techniques and tools, based on your understanding of learning in research education

• Be aware of differences in institutional frameworks for supervision

• Be able to argue for connections between a constructivist learning theory and supervision

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Pre-assignment: Institutional framework for supervision

Exercise:

- Discuss in groups your answers to the questions in the three boxes marked with a star (page 24, 27, 31).

- Make a sum up for the group- Mutual exchange of knowledge of

institutional context

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Personal experiences with supervision

Exercise: ‘success and challenges in supervision’

- Fill out worksheet individual (are collected afterwards)

-Share stories of both success and challenges as a supervisor in the group -Produce group flip-over (or over-head transparencies or ppt slides) of the group’s challenges in supervision (first question) -Share group flip-overs