Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice in Higher Education2016-17

King’s Learning Institute

Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice in Higher Education 2016–17

Programme summary

The Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice in Higher Education (PGCAPHE) is a first qualification in academic practice for academic staff. It is increasingly recognised that individuals responsible for the student learning experience in universities in the UK should have access to a teaching qualification and/or Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (HEA). The PGCAPHE provides a route to both a qualification in higher education academic practice and recognition as a Fellow of the HEA.

The programme is flexible, inquiry-led and based on participants ongoing experience and wider academic role. PGCAPHE aims to: • introduce theories and methods of learning, teaching,

and assessment and the evaluation of their application in the context of your discipline, the institution and the wider aims of higher education;

• enable you to contextualise educational processes in relation to your discipline and your own professional values;

• support you to develop collaborative, inquiry-led critical reflection to enable you to evaluate your teaching practice and plan.

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King’s Learning Institute

MULTI-DISCIPLINARY LEARNING ENVIRONMENT

IMPROVE THROUGH SELF-REFLECTION

DEVELOPING YOUR CRITICAL THINKING ABOUT TEACHING

ACCREDITED BY THE HIGHER EDUCATION ACADEMY (HEA)

Modules available

Enhancing Academic Practice (core module)The module is designed to develop participants’ understanding and engagement with key concepts and evidence emerging from academia and the integration of scholarship, research and professional activities with teaching and learning support. The module introduces participants to inquiry-led approaches to investigating and reflecting critically on their academic practice for the purposes of enhancing the student learning experience. The module emphasises the importance of collaboration and working with peers. It is taught using a combination of large group workshops, small group postgraduate seminars with your tutor, teaching observation in practice and independent study using resources in the university’s KEATS elearning environment. Participants will also engage in microteaching as the basis for identifying and reflecting on aspects of teaching practice as well as the different approaches to giving constructive feedback on the practice of others.

By the end of the module participants are expected to be able to:• develop an understanding of the disciplinary and wider

context that informs taught practice;• evaluate appropriate learning and teaching theories and

strategies that inform taught practice;• design effective assessment and feedback processes;• critically reflect on and evaluate taught practice.

Assessment and feedback (compulsory)*The module is designed to enable participants to critically evaluate the role of assessment and feedback in the development of academic practice appropriate to their disciplinary/professional context.

By the end of the module participants are expected to be able to:• engage critically with key concepts and theories of assessment

and feedback in higher education;• deliver and evaluate assessment and feedback strategies;• critically reflect on assessment/feedback practices to identify

development needs;• synthesise assessment/feedback theory with self evaluative

inquiry for the purpose of informing and enhancing practice.

Our participants say ‘The PGCAPHE programme at King’s Learning Institute offers an in-depth pedagogical insight, which has honed my critical reflection on a wide range of teaching techniques successfully responding to a growingly international student cohort.

Throughout the academic teaching programme I have received careful advice on curriculum design, leadership and management in higher education, skills development and student employability, pastoral care and in technology enhanced learning.’

Sohail Nazir Research Student and GTA, History, King’s College London

Our participants say ‘I have really enjoyed the Enhancing Academic Practice module and I feel that I have learned a lot from it.

The interdisciplinary nature of this module has deepened my learning experience and helped me build upon existing knowledge and experience and further develop as an academic. ’

Claude Chidiac Lecturer, Clinical Nurse Specialist, London South Bank University

Overview

Duration: 12-24 Months

Delivery: Face-to-face seminars, teaching observations, and micro-teaching; blended and online learning to support face-to-face. Attendance is required at all face-to-face sessions.

Credit: 60 credits at Level 7

Estimated 600 (6 hours per week)study hours:

Assessment: Assessment is by coursework; no examinations are conducted on this programme. Written assignments include academic essays; compilation of and reflection on evidence of teaching; successful completion of teaching observations and in some modules presentations or posters.

Accreditation: On completion of the PGCAPHE you will become a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

How to apply Online at King’s Apply – https://apply.kcl.ac.uk/

Fees: We offer a fee waiver to teaching staff at King’s College London. For external participants the 2016-17 fee will be £1,008 for the core module and £504 for compulsory and optional modules. Fees are charged at the start of the year when module selections are made. For modules taken in 2017-18 there will be a 5% increase.

SHARING INTERESTS AND EXPERIENCES OF LEARNING AND TEACHING

PERSONALISED OBSERVATION AND FEEDBACK ON YOUR TEACHING

*Participants can choose from one or both of these compulsory options.

After your PGCAPHE

If you are interested in taking your studies further, on completion of the Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice in Higher Education you can apply to continue on to the Diploma and Masters level provided that you are engaged in a significant level of educational activity (teaching; assessment; curriculum development; supervision etc) and are in a position to research into and change your practice.

If you want to progress, please contact Sharon Markless.

Modules available

Curriculum design and development (compulsory)*The purpose of this module is to develop critical insight and understanding of different approaches, models, and theories underpinning curriculum design and development in higher education.

By the end of the module participants are expected to be able to:• understand the contested nature and scope of curriculum in

higher education;• critically analyse influences on curriculum, including

disciplinary and institutional context, and nationalframeworks, and how these affect curriculum development;

• critically analyse different models of curriculum developmentand their appropriateness to various situations;

• engage effectively in the process of curriculum design;• justify, through critical use of curriculum development

literature and other evidence, both the overall approach takento curriculum development and the key decisions takenduring the development process.

Optional modules• International Perspectives in Teaching and Learning

in Higher Education• Management & Leadership in Higher Education• Rethinking Teaching in the Context of Diversity• Postgraduate Research Supervision• Supporting Technology Enhanced.

Recommended programme structure

Core module Enhancing Academic Practice (Year 1) (30 Credits)

Compulsory modules (Year 2) (15 Credits)

1 x optional modules (Year 2) (15 Credits)

Entry requirements

Applicants must be currently teaching in Higher Education (20 hours per annum minimum).

Applicants must have less than three years teaching experience.

The PGCAPHE is a requirement for new lecturers at King’s therefore King’s staff will be given priority entry to the programme.

PhD students will not be eligible for this programme due to College regulations concerning dual registration.

Our participants say ‘I have benefited from the PGCAPHE program in several ways. By reflecting on and exercising different teaching strategies, I feel I have made considerable progress in the way I prepare and deliver my lectures.

An unexpected outcome of the course has been that, through the interaction of staff from other disciplines that I would not normally meet in my day to day work, I have gained an appreciation of being part of a wider academic community within King’s that transcends research and teaching departments’

Dr Hendrik Huthoff Lecturer, Department of Infectious Diseases, King’s College London

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