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Rachel MyersRebecca Dearden

(in London) Anna Seabourne

Carol Elston(in Belfast)

Sharing the load: Working together to improve the

teaching skills in the Library at Leeds in times of change

Staff and DepartmentalDevelopment Unit

LILAC 2011

Skills@Library“The challenges that we are facing are certainly

serious and call for cool heads, clear thinking, sensible planning, measured actions and

great teamwork and collegiality.”Vice-Chancellor

University of LeedsJanuary 2010

UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS MODEL

The Library

Nine facultiesEngineering Medicine & Health

Environment MAPS ESSL ARTS

PVAC LUBS Biological Sciences

Central teaching support

Staff and Departmental Development Unit (SDDU)

Skills Team

Faculty Team

LibrariansLearning and

Teaching Development Group (LTDG)

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‘This is a valuable opportunity to share ideas with colleagues from the Library and SDDU. Teaching is an increasingly important aspect of our role and we need to become leaders in this area if we are to justify our existence!’

‘An excellent idea and I hope it will encourage everyone to

continue to share good ideas, best practice and resources.’

‘…a good opportunity to reflect on teaching - it's all too easy to

stagnate unless you go to things like this every so often.’

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Aims

• To share our experience of working collaboratively

• To explore challenges faced by library staff new to teaching and support available for development

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How is IL teaching structured in your institution?

UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS MODEL

The Library

Nine facultiesEngineering Medicine & Health

Environment MAPS ESSL ARTS

PVAC LUBS Biological Sciences

Central teaching support

Staff and Departmental Development Unit (SDDU)

Skills Team

Faculty Team

LibrariansLearning and

Teaching Development Group (LTDG)

Skills@Library

Dearing

Review

UK ProfessionalStandards Framework

HEFCE announces £1bn funding cuts

Browne report

Amendment to legislation capping

tuition fees

2011Revised UK Professional

Standards Framework

White Paper on future of HE

University of

Leeds Library

Strategy Plan

2009/10 –

2013/14

Dearing

Review

UK ProfessionalStandards Framework

HEFCE announces £1bn funding cuts

Information skills in HE: a

SCONUL position

outlines 7 pillars of

information literacy

University of Leeds

Information Literacy Strategy

Russell Group

surveyed on the level

of support for learning

development

University of Leeds

merger of Library and

Skills Teams

Browne report

Amendment to legislation capping

tuition fees

2011Revised UK Professional

Standards Framework

White Paper on future of HE

University of Leeds Academic

Skills Strategy

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Questions?

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What internal partnerships can you develop?

What barriers are in the way of using partnerships?

What external channels are 

available to support or stimulate your 

teaching?

What changes are you facing?

discuss

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Background to the projectProgramme designed to help Library teachers:

Work towards Associate Membership of the HEA

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What is LibTeach?

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Associate membership of the Higher Education AcademyAHEA

http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/ourwork/supportingindividuals/professionalrecognition

Teaching & Teaching & learning learning support support activitiesactivities

Core Core knowledgeknowledge

Professional Professional valuesvalues

AssociateAssociate

Core knowledge

Professional values

ApplicationApplication

Teaching CV• Experience• Qualifications• Supporting

information

Write about two areas of

teaching and learning activity

Referees

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Key areas identified

principles and approaches

face-to-face, blended approaches

pre and post session activities

teaching mixed/diverse groups

working within the curriculum

suites of sessionsworking with academics

embedding skills

other people’s materials

teaching vs training

using interactive activities

workshop style

learning objectives academic skills

learning objects

international students

critical thinking

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SDDU Sessions

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Programme backup options

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Facilitator role

Facilitators:

Anna SeabourneJulia BrahamRachel RobinsonLiz NeillyNatalie Bedford

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Buddy scheme

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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)

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Using the VLE