A Blueprint for Teaching Excellence

Authors

  • Ruth Pickford Leeds Beckett University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14297/jpaap.v6i1.299

Keywords:

Higher Education, TEF, Teaching, Progression, Satisfaction, Outcomes

Abstract

This article outlines an innovative and highly practical model that holistically and synoptically integrates the factors that underpin strategic approaches to developing teaching excellence within a course, an institution or more widely.

It combines and articulates the various drivers towards excellence widely discussed currently, from the perspectives of students, institutions and those who teach them. Integral to the model are the elements of progression, satisfaction and graduate outcomes that align fully with current imperatives around teaching excellence.

Drawing upon extant elements of Higher Education pedagogy, this article adopts a Boyerian approach to scholarship integrating original research that has been applied in diverse contexts in an innovative way (Boyer, 1990), to provide a route-map or blueprint for the design and delivery of curriculum, teaching and learning environments. The model will be of use to individuals, course directors, learning and teaching directorates, institutional leaders working in higher education.

Author Biography

  • Ruth Pickford, Leeds Beckett University

    Professor Ruth Pickford is Director of the Centre for Learning and Teaching at Leeds Beckett University. She is a UK National Teaching Fellow and a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

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Published

2018-04-24

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Vol. 6 No. 1 (2018): JPAAP Vol 6, Issue 1 (2018)

Section

On the Horizon

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