Staff need(s) the workshop will address
Am I the only one facing this particular challenge in my PAT work? What approaches and strategies have others used to help their PAT students?
My students are struggling with the challenges that studying in this post-Covid world presents. How can I help them? What strategies have others found useful?
Where can I share my PAT experiences with others? What information and services are available that I can signpost to students?
Audience: All colleagues working in a PAT role
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How the Workshop will contribute to Learning Practice
Through this workshop you will:
focus on practicalities of the PAT role. Using case-based scenarios grounded in participants’ own context, you will explore actual student needs encountered as a PAT and devise practical strategies for support.
Working together as a group, participants will support colleagues in tackling challenges they face in working as PATs for students by empathy and by sharing ideas and experiences. Simply knowing you are not alone in the issues and challenges you face can be helpful, but this workshop offers more – it offers a chance to learn from approaches that others have tried and to share your own knowledge and ideas.
There will be a particular focus on the issues that we, and our students, face in this post-Covid world, and you will develop awareness of tools and strategies we can use to promote connectedness and an sense of community even when we have less face to face contact.
How the Workshop will develop specific skills aligned with UKPSF
Specific skills
A4
This workshop provides opportunities for PATs to support each other in meeting student needs and to share strategies used in offering appropriate support and guidance.
Core Knowledge
K3
The workshop provides a chance to gain ideas and information to help you respond to some of the many factors that impact the student experience and affect their learning and approaches to study.
Professional Values
V1
One size does not fit all when it comes to student support. This workshop offers opportunities to explore ways to adapt our approaches to respond to the needs of individual student and diverse communities of learners.
How the Workshop supports Fellowship D1, D2 & D3
D1 – Associate Fellow of the HEA
Staff with at least 1 year teaching/support experience. Typically these are staff who do some teaching/student support but not as the main element of their role, such as:
- Career researchers with some teaching responsibilities
- Learning support, demonstrators or technicians with some teaching responsibilities
- Staff experienced in professional areas but with a limited teaching role
D2 – Fellow of the HEA
Staff for whom teaching or learning support is a significant element of their role such as staff with experience as
- Academic or Support staff holding substantive teaching & learning responsibilities.
- Experienced professionals with substantive teaching & learning responsibilities including for example within workplace settings.
D3 – Senior Fellow of the HEA
Experienced HE teaching staff able to demonstrate sustained impact & influence on the L&T practice of others over a number of years, through
- Leading, managing, organising programmes
- Mentoring other staff
- Departmental, School or other University responsibilities