Staffordshire University

Teaching Excellence Fellowship Award Application Form

(For help in completing this form see ‘Guidelines for the Teaching Excellence Fellowship Scheme’. Applications must be received via email by Ellen Lockett in the Academic Development Unit by 1pm on 16th March 2017.)

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Tel: 01782 294872

Name:
School/Service:
Campus:
Telephone:
Email:

What status of HEA Fellowship are you?

Associate
Fellow
Senior Fellow
Principal Fellow

Category of Teaching Excellence Fellowship for which you are applying:

Relatively new to teaching (less than 5 years of experience)

Learning support 

Experienced(5 or more years of experience)

To remind you to include all the different sections of this application form, you are encouraged to complete the following checklist:

Parts of the application form / 
1.Examples of your teaching-related experience
2. Your CV
3. A reference from a senior colleague
4.Your ‘Promoting Teaching Excellence’ Action Plan


Teaching-related experience

  1. What do you consider to be engaging and innovative about your teaching/facilitationof learning?(200 words maximum)

2) How do you feel you are continually contributing to improving the student experience, particularly the way in which you try to include all learnersand/or use of new technologies for learning in an innovative way (200 words maximum)

3)What value could you add to your colleagues by becoming a Teaching Excellence Fellow? (200 words maximum)

4)How have you enhanced your own continuous professional development in terms of learning and teaching? (i.e. not subject-updating) (200 words maximum)

Curriculum Vitae

(Please write no more than 2 sides of A4 in not less than 10 point size font)

Reference from a member of the School/Service Management Team

This reference should not exceed 500 words and should focus on your impact on the student experience, your contribution to School/Service teaching/facilitation of learning and also your willingness to embrace change.

Promoting Teaching Excellence Action Plan (see template below)

Using the structure below as a suggested framework, produce an action plan of how you intend to achieve your outcomes within the 2 year Teaching Excellence Fellowship time-span. This should be restricted to no more than 2 sides of A4, and should include a variety of activities such as:

1)Organising teaching/student learning related staff development workshops in own School or Service

2)Disseminating good practice in teaching/supporting student learning across your School or Service

3)Encouraging or leading specific initiatives to further develop student learning

4)Contributing to the work of the Academic Staff Development Department on cross-University teaching and learning initiatives

For this action-plan applicants are strongly encouraged to have a focus which relates to having an inclusive approach to teaching and/or improving the student experience through the innovative use of new technologies for learning

Template for Promoting Teaching Excellence Action Plan

Overall focus:
Intended action / Perceived benefit to student learning / Projected use of total £1000 allowance

The £1000 allocated to support your Fellowship within your School or Service can either be used on one of the criteria or distributed between a few. If successful in gaining a Fellowship you willnegotiate this with your Associate Dean, Student Experience or equivalent Director if within a Service.

Signature of applicant …………………………………………………………………………

Counter signature of Dean of School/Director of Service in support of your application

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