student feedback and leadership - Office for Learning and Teaching
student feedback and leadership - Office for Learning and Teaching
student feedback and leadership - Office for Learning and Teaching
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Student Feedback & Leadership<br />
10.10 Leadership Reflections<br />
Questions <strong>for</strong> ART (as a whole team):<br />
1. What has your participation in this project enabled you to achieve<br />
in regard to improving <strong>student</strong> <strong>feedback</strong>?<br />
By adopting more effective methods of teaching assessment <strong>and</strong> <strong>feedback</strong><br />
we could improve the good teaching scores in large service classes. The<br />
effective methods were discussed in the group by the staff (based on their<br />
own personal experiences) at the beginning of this project.<br />
2. What are the key factors that enabled you to achieve this?<br />
Reading <strong>student</strong> written comments at the beginning of the project meant<br />
whatever actions we took were to address their concerns, <strong>and</strong> we were<br />
trying to redesign the courses to reflect embedded <strong>student</strong> centredness.<br />
3. What challenges did you face in achieving this?<br />
––<br />
Mainly IT problems <strong>and</strong> lecture venue locations when delivering some<br />
of the changes.<br />
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Students not recognising their responsibilities in the learning process.<br />
4. How has your participation in this project increased your knowledge<br />
about how to enhance <strong>student</strong> learning <strong>and</strong> improve learning <strong>and</strong><br />
teaching practice?<br />
Listening to experienced staff <strong>and</strong> using their successful practices; also<br />
listening to <strong>student</strong>’s concerns <strong>and</strong> taking action to rectify them <strong>and</strong> most<br />
importantly letting them know that staff have done something to address their<br />
concerns.<br />
5. Do you see what you have done in this project as a <strong>for</strong>m of <strong>leadership</strong>?<br />
Please explain.<br />
Yes, as a group we tried to pass on our effective practices to the other staff<br />
in the school during school meetings <strong>and</strong> we know that some staff adopted<br />
them <strong>and</strong> had very good experiences in their teaching practice. Throughout<br />
the course of the project we did address some of our challenges in the monthly<br />
ART Leaders meetings <strong>and</strong> actions were taken to address many of these<br />
problems such as; IT issues; allocating the right venue <strong>for</strong> different courses<br />
from different schools <strong>and</strong> if possible; creating an emergency line so that<br />
a technical person could attend the lecture room as soon as any problem<br />
occurred with the class equipment between 8.30pm–6.30pm. This in<strong>for</strong>mation<br />
was passed to other staff during staff meetings to show that the group was<br />
being effective <strong>and</strong> were taking their <strong>leadership</strong> role seriously.<br />
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