2. LILAC 2011
Rachel Myers
Rebecca Dearden
(in London)
Anna Seabourne
Carol Elston
(in Belfast)
Staff and Departmental
Sharing the load: Development Unit
Working together to improve the
teaching skills in the Library at Leeds in
times of change
3.
4. “The challenges that we are facing are certainly
Skills@Library serious and call for cool heads, clear thinking,
sensible planning, measured actions and
great teamwork and collegiality.”
Vice-Chancellor
University of Leeds
January 2010
5. Central teaching Nine faculties
support Engineering Medicine & Health
Staff and Departmental Environment MAPS ESSL ARTS
Development Unit (SDDU) PVAC LUBS Biological Sciences
UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS MODEL
The Library
Skills@Library
Faculty
Skills Learning and Team
Team Teaching
Development
Librarians
Group (LTDG)
6. Skills@Library
‘This is a valuable ‘…a good opportunity to reflect
opportunity to share ideas on teaching - it's all too easy to
with colleagues from the stagnate unless you go to
Library and SDDU. Teaching things like this every so often.’
is an increasingly important
aspect of our role and we ‘An excellent idea and I hope it
need to become leaders in will encourage everyone to
this area if we are to justify continue to share good ideas,
our existence!’ best practice and resources.’
7. 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
10. Central teaching Nine faculties
support Engineering Medicine & Health
Staff and Departmental Environment MAPS ESSL ARTS
Development Unit (SDDU) PVAC LUBS Biological Sciences
UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS MODEL
The Library
Skills@Library
Faculty
Skills Learning and Team
Team Teaching
Development
Librarians
Group (LTDG)
11. Dearin UK Professional HEFCE announces
g Standards Framework £1bn funding cuts
Review
12. Browne
2011
report
Revised UK
Professional
Standards
Framework
Amendment to
legislation capping White Paper on
tuition fees future of HE
13. University of University of Universit
Leeds Leeds y of
Information merger of Leeds
Literacy Library and Library
Strategy Skills Teams Strategy
Information Russell Plan
skills in HE: a Group 2009/10
SCONUL surveyed –
position on the level 2013/14
outlines 7 of support
pillars of for learning
information developmen
literacy t
Dearin UK Professional HEFCE announces
g Standards Framework £1bn funding cuts
Review
14. University of
Leeds Academic
Skills Strategy
Browne
2011
report
Revised UK
Professional
Standards
Framework
Amendment to
legislation capping White Paper on
tuition fees future of HE
17. Skills@Library
What changes What internal
are you facing? partnerships can
you develop?
discuss
What external
channels are What barriers are in
available to support the way of using
or stimulate your partnerships?
teaching?
24. Skills@Library
Associate
membership of the
Higher Education
Academy
AHEA
http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/
ourwork/supportingindividuals
/professionalrecognition
25. Teaching &
learning
support
activities
Core
knowledge Associate
Professional
values
26. Write about two
areas of
teaching and
learning activity
Teaching CV
• Experience
Core
• Qualifications
knowledge Application
• Supporting
information
Professional
values
Referees
27. principles and approaches
working within the curriculum
Skills@Library
critical thinking embedding skills face-to-face,
blended approaches
learning objects
using interactive activities
Key areas pre and post session activities
identified
teaching mixed/diverse groups
teaching vs training
learning objectives
other people’s materials academic skills
international students
workshop style
suites of sessions
working with academics
32. Skills@Library
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)