Slides from UC&R East Midlands section event 'Skills for Success! Study Skills in Higher Education' 8th June 2010 - 'Teaching and learning - addressing the gaps' - Sandy Gilkes

1. Teaching and Learning- Addressing the Gaps Centre for Academic Practice 1991 - 2010 Sandy Gilkes , FUN, FSEDA, NTF C f AP

3. The C f AP Vision The key operating principle is that any student should be able to receive expert tuition and advice on any graduate/key skill at any level and at a time of their own choosing. To support academic teams in coping with the great diversity of students, by providing opportunities for individuals and groups to accelerate their development of an heuristic* range of skills that facilitates access to the HE curriculum * Key, core, cognitive, graduate and employability skills

5. C f AP Workshops E - learning Modules Peer Mentoring Tutorials Open Learning

13. Requested topics – 2008/9 C f AP was used by : 37% BME students 27% International students 36% Mature students 27% students with disclosed disability In total 6,000+ students accessed CfAP via tutorials and workshops. Avenue Campus Park Campus

15. Student comments from CfAP logs C f AP Rocks

17. Lecturers’ Viewpoints We can see what’s wrong but we don’t know what to do about it I know they haven’t got the skills they need but I haven’t got time to deal with it – I have to deliver the content If they attend my lectures they will acquire the skills they need – students have always muddled through I wasn’t recruited to teach skills - I am a specialist It’s not my problem – it’s the students’ problems. It’s the fault of the admissions process

21. …… .. “ all students should leave higher education having confidence in their proven ability to manage their own learning and development in life and work, and to take appropriate and effective action in association with others in a world of change” HEC submission to the Dearing Review (1997)

24. Key Factors for Student Development Key Working Theories Autonomy Potential Experience Needs Education Development Honey & Mumford Stephenson Stephenson Kolb Maslow Pestalozzi Bloom Diversity