Edited by Kate Blackham, Thursday, 13 June 2024, 11:32
For Fellowship of Advance HE you need to evidence all 5 Areas of Activity (A1-A5), all 5 Core Knowledge (K1-K5) and all 5 Professional Values (V1-V5).
The way they get us to do these at the OU is to give us a mapping tool (which to me looks like the enormous paperwork files I had to fill in to prove that GCSE and A level textbooks did indeed meet the syllabi and detail whereabouts in the textbooks that content could be found - except this mapping tool is tiny in comparison, a mere 11 pages long) and ask us to briefly state what we've done that meets those criteria in the mapping tool. Then when we have completed that we can use the mapping tool as a sort of essay writing guide ensuring that we include everything we need to say. Then we delete the content from the mapping tool and just say which paragraph of which section in our essay is meant. I've made it sound more complicated than it actually is.
The upshot is I have everything filled in apart from K5: Requirements
for quality assurance and enhancement and their implications for practice. Now the PSF standards have changed (to make them so that academic-related staff without teaching duties can have their contributions recognised) so K5 used to be Methods for evaluating the effectiveness of teaching. But I'm hoping that what used to be covered by the old K5 can still apply under the new K5, because I wrote a load of reflective notes during H880, which I'm hoping are still going to be useful.
In H880 the first point at which I can find reflections that map to the old K5 are during week 1 of the 21st century open TEL educator section. We had to do a lesson observation for the assessment of that section and so the reflection was tied to that. I was thinking about the value of being able to watch my peers' recorded lectures as a way of picking up new ideas, new approaches to tackling problems, etc. I wrote a bunch of thoughts in OneNote that I shan't repeat here, but may be worth employing as an example of K5.
A gap in K5
For Fellowship of Advance HE you need to evidence all 5 Areas of Activity (A1-A5), all 5 Core Knowledge (K1-K5) and all 5 Professional Values (V1-V5).
The way they get us to do these at the OU is to give us a mapping tool (which to me looks like the enormous paperwork files I had to fill in to prove that GCSE and A level textbooks did indeed meet the syllabi and detail whereabouts in the textbooks that content could be found - except this mapping tool is tiny in comparison, a mere 11 pages long) and ask us to briefly state what we've done that meets those criteria in the mapping tool. Then when we have completed that we can use the mapping tool as a sort of essay writing guide ensuring that we include everything we need to say. Then we delete the content from the mapping tool and just say which paragraph of which section in our essay is meant. I've made it sound more complicated than it actually is.
The upshot is I have everything filled in apart from K5: Requirements for quality assurance and enhancement and their implications for practice. Now the PSF standards have changed (to make them so that academic-related staff without teaching duties can have their contributions recognised) so K5 used to be Methods for evaluating the effectiveness of teaching. But I'm hoping that what used to be covered by the old K5 can still apply under the new K5, because I wrote a load of reflective notes during H880, which I'm hoping are still going to be useful.
In H880 the first point at which I can find reflections that map to the old K5 are during week 1 of the 21st century open TEL educator section. We had to do a lesson observation for the assessment of that section and so the reflection was tied to that. I was thinking about the value of being able to watch my peers' recorded lectures as a way of picking up new ideas, new approaches to tackling problems, etc. I wrote a bunch of thoughts in OneNote that I shan't repeat here, but may be worth employing as an example of K5.