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The Changing Landscape of Lifelong Learning. Elaine Hawkins Programme Director: Higher Education Introductory Studies, Birkbeck, University of London. Staff Development in the Changing Landscape(s): Meeting the needs of part time teaching staff. The Birkbeck LLL context (as case study)
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The Changing Landscape of Lifelong Learning Elaine Hawkins Programme Director: Higher Education Introductory Studies, Birkbeck, University of London
Staff Development in the Changing Landscape(s): Meeting the needs of part time teaching staff. • The Birkbeck LLL context (as case study) • Establishing ‘Needs’ • Facing Challenges
Challenges: New Technologies • ‘Effective use of technology in teaching’ • ‘Putting your course on-line: an Introduction to the Bloomsbury Learning Environment • ‘Using Birkbeck’s electronic library for teaching and research’
Challenges: Student Diversity • ‘Widening Participation and the Curriculum: towards inclusivity’ • ‘Planning for learning in and from the workplace’ • ‘Working with challenging behaviour in learning settings’. • ‘Supporting students for whom English is a second language’ • ‘Working with younger learners’ • ‘Taking your own experience seriously’ –integrating student experience in the classroom
Challenges: Lecturer self development • ‘Practitioner led ‘consultancy’ groups’ • ‘Keeping the Balance: Facilitating Learning and sustaining our personal energy levels.’ • ‘Voice workshop’ • ‘Developing a writing strategy: integrating the development of tutor writing into teaching practice.’ • Conference budget and fees paid to participate in subject based modules.
Challenges: The changing landscape • Changing cultures; Quality Assurance; Pressures of Scale; Administrative Streamlining. (FCE – FLL – Department of Social Policy and Education) • Staff development as: • Active critical engagement with the academy? • Induction into institutional ‘norms’?
Challenges: The changing landscape • Staff Development for: • Learner responsiveness or Institutional responsiveness? • Consistency or standardisation? • Preservation of creativity and flexibility which is responsive to differing student needs and cultures ? • Widening Lecturer participation? In the Changing Landscape: How can the ‘needs’ of professional part time teaching staff be met?