22nd February @LCC
The main focus of the morning workshop was to reflect and understand how teaching is motivated by lived experiences and acquired knowledge. We talked about what is relevant to know in order to teach well. What values inform the way we teach?
We had to write down the values and knowledge we find important to perform our roles as educators. In the image was a quick summary of our table discussion.
We were prompted to contextualise the discussion with teaching in higher education and I have to admit that we didn’t focus too much on the higher education scenario. We found quite unclear the advantage of it as very subject specific. In the table discussion we focused on broader values and needs of the teaching/learning experience.
The follow up exercise was to compare our list of values with the “The UK Professional Standards Framework
for teaching and supporting learning in higher education” (UKPSF) from 2011. We then moved on to compare the 2011 framework with the recently published one, from 2023, and see what points changed.
Not much changed which was very surprising. However, the points that we highlighted in the table exercise were quite similar to the Core Knowledge and Professional Values highlighted in the 2011 UKPSF. It was very helpful to debate those points and bring them alive, with examples and lived experience. The way guidance is written can make the points quite cold and impersonal.
Notes on table discussion:
What means being professional? Originated from being part of an order – comes from French 13c. To profess, to declare openly.
An euphemism for prostitution.
To profess? To be a professor? To be professional.