Information Skills Teaching: the Reflective Practitioner

 

Wednesday 6 March 2002   9.45 – 16.30
Learning Centre
Leeds Metropolitan University
City Campus
Woodhouse Lane

 

A day of workshops and seminar sessions for everyone involved with information skills teaching, whatever their level of experience.  The varied programme is designed to suit practitioners from any background, whether delivering traditional teaching sessions or working with Virtual Learning Environments.

 

The day will look at information skills teaching as part of teaching in HE in general.  There will be both theoretical and practical sessions, with options to suit your interests and experience.  The day has a simple aim for the information skills practitioners taking part: to help us to do it better!

 

This will be achieved by:

 

• encouraging reflective practice
• sharing ideas
• providing a networking opportunity

Programme

The role of information skills practitioners in teaching in HE
Keynote speaker:  Professor Gaynor Taylor, Pro-Vice-Chancellor with responsibility for Learning, Teaching and Assessment and Research, LMU 

 

What is quality in teaching? – the QAA perspective
Rai Shacklock, Deputy Head, School of Tourism and Hospitality Management, Leeds Metropolitan University

 

Workshops – either Option A or Option B

 

Option A
Evaluating your teaching – practical aspects
Clara Davies, Senior Academic Staff Development Officer, Leeds University

 

Option B
Peer observation in the information skills context – an interactive session
Chris Powis, Learning Support Co-ordinator, University College Northampton

 
Our future?  Issues for information skills via the Web
Gill  Needham, Learning Support Manager, Open University

 

Workshops – either Option A or Option B

 

Option A 
What do first year students learn in information skills sessions?  Recent research at University College Northampton

Chris Powis, Learning Support Co-ordinator, University College Northampton
(45 minutes)

followed by
 

Preparing yourself:  a practical session on mentoring
Biddy Fisher, Head of Academic Services and Development, Learning Centre,
Sheffield Hallam University 
(1 hour, 15 minutes)     

 

Option B
Designing and running educational development workshops
This workshop will look at some of the main issues you should consider when designing and running workshops.  It will also give you the opportunity to design a workshop you could use in your own practice and receive feedback. 

Facilitator:  Ranald McDonald, Associate Head: Academic Development, Learning and Teaching Institute, Sheffield Hallam University

 

Option B is a two-hour workshop.  There is no opportunity to select part of this and part of Option A.