The Teaching Practices and skills development theme within the St Mary's Learning and Teaching Strategy aims to:
- Provide high quality teaching drawing on effective teaching practices contained in our Curriculum Framework.
- Introduce new digitally-enabled pedagogies such as gamification, augmented reality, virtual reality, green-screen teaching, micro-learning.
- Integrate greater flexibility for students to engage with learning in new ways and in formats that suit them.
- Enable more inclusive approaches to supporting learning.
- Adopt a 'F2F+ spectrum’ with all modules adhering to a specific type based on a variable balance between face-to-face and online elements.
- Embed Employability and transferrable skills development opportunities (e.g. via short and long term (and online) placements, Centre for Workplace Learning (CWL) modules (currently 300 students per year), Widening Participation focused initiatives like BeSMART, and recognition of these via the St Mary’s Award.
- Enable students to play an active and meaningful part in their own academic and professional Development.
Some areas of work within the Teaching Practices and skills development theme include:
- Focus on inclusive approaches to supporting learning.
- Emphasis on 9 key principles of effective teaching.
- Introduction of F2F+ ‘Spectrum’ and clear expectations of the balance between online and face-to-face teaching contact.
- Embedded approach to employability and career development, with students given more agency in their own professional development.
- Improved, student-friendly online system of providing feedback on modules.
- New digitally-enabled pedagogies such as gamification, virtual and augmented reality and green screen teaching, micro-learning and integration of Linked-In Learning and other online resources.
- Introduction of new roles in Careers and in departments to support placement learning (e.g. liaison with employers), and a rapid increase in the number of students engaging with placements.
A full copy of the St Mary's Learning and Teaching Strategy detailing further information about our Teaching Practices and Skills development theme can be viewed here: Learning and Teaching Strategy.
Alternatively, each section is available here: Secton 1, Section 2, Section 3, Section 4 and Section 5