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Rachel MyersRebecca Dearden
(in London) Anna Seabourne
Carol Elston(in Belfast)
Sharing the load: Working together to improve the
teaching skills in the Library at Leeds in times of change
Staff and DepartmentalDevelopment Unit
LILAC 2011
Skills@Library“The challenges that we are facing are certainly
serious and call for cool heads, clear thinking, sensible planning, measured actions and
great teamwork and collegiality.”Vice-Chancellor
University of LeedsJanuary 2010
UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS MODEL
The Library
Nine facultiesEngineering Medicine & Health
Environment MAPS ESSL ARTS
PVAC LUBS Biological Sciences
Central teaching support
Staff and Departmental Development Unit (SDDU)
Skills Team
Faculty Team
LibrariansLearning and
Teaching Development Group (LTDG)
Skills@Library
Skills@Library
‘This is a valuable opportunity to share ideas with colleagues from the Library and SDDU. Teaching is an increasingly important aspect of our role and we need to become leaders in this area if we are to justify our existence!’
‘An excellent idea and I hope it will encourage everyone to
continue to share good ideas, best practice and resources.’
‘…a good opportunity to reflect on teaching - it's all too easy to
stagnate unless you go to things like this every so often.’
Skills@Library
Aims
• To share our experience of working collaboratively
• To explore challenges faced by library staff new to teaching and support available for development
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Skills@Library
How is IL teaching structured in your institution?
UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS MODEL
The Library
Nine facultiesEngineering Medicine & Health
Environment MAPS ESSL ARTS
PVAC LUBS Biological Sciences
Central teaching support
Staff and Departmental Development Unit (SDDU)
Skills Team
Faculty Team
LibrariansLearning and
Teaching Development Group (LTDG)
Skills@Library
Dearing
Review
UK ProfessionalStandards Framework
HEFCE announces £1bn funding cuts
Browne report
Amendment to legislation capping
tuition fees
2011Revised UK Professional
Standards Framework
White Paper on future of HE
University of
Leeds Library
Strategy Plan
2009/10 –
2013/14
Dearing
Review
UK ProfessionalStandards Framework
HEFCE announces £1bn funding cuts
Information skills in HE: a
SCONUL position
outlines 7 pillars of
information literacy
University of Leeds
Information Literacy Strategy
Russell Group
surveyed on the level
of support for learning
development
University of Leeds
merger of Library and
Skills Teams
Browne report
Amendment to legislation capping
tuition fees
2011Revised UK Professional
Standards Framework
White Paper on future of HE
University of Leeds Academic
Skills Strategy
Skills@Library
Questions?
Skills@Library
What internal partnerships can you develop?
What barriers are in the way of using partnerships?
What external channels are
available to support or stimulate your
teaching?
What changes are you facing?
discuss
Skills@Library
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Background to the projectProgramme designed to help Library teachers:
Work towards Associate Membership of the HEA
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What is LibTeach?
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Associate membership of the Higher Education AcademyAHEA
http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/ourwork/supportingindividuals/professionalrecognition
Teaching & Teaching & learning learning support support activitiesactivities
Core Core knowledgeknowledge
Professional Professional valuesvalues
AssociateAssociate
Core knowledge
Professional values
ApplicationApplication
Teaching CV• Experience• Qualifications• Supporting
information
Write about two areas of
teaching and learning activity
Referees
Skills@Library
Key areas identified
principles and approaches
face-to-face, blended approaches
pre and post session activities
teaching mixed/diverse groups
working within the curriculum
suites of sessionsworking with academics
embedding skills
other people’s materials
teaching vs training
using interactive activities
workshop style
learning objectives academic skills
learning objects
international students
critical thinking
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SDDU Sessions
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Programme backup options
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Facilitator role
Facilitators:
Anna SeabourneJulia BrahamRachel RobinsonLiz NeillyNatalie Bedford
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Buddy scheme
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Library specific workshops in discussion
• Writing and referencing skills for international students (AS/SM, after June)
• Introduction to teaching academic skills (JB/AS)
• Working with a learning technologist to produce online resources (CE/JK)
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Using the VLE
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