Levels and descriptors
Wednesday 22 February - 10:00-12:00 - Edinburgh Building 413This course aims to ensure that early career tutors recognise whenstudents are working at the correct level of demand and can adjust their teaching approaches to maximise student achievement.
This session starts with a quick revision of the UK Academic Infrastructure and the NICATS descriptors to place the following exercises in a regulatory context. We then explore the descriptors that apply to level three performance (the minimum expected of those enetering Higher Education) with the descriptors for level four (associated with completion of the first year of Higher Education), identifying the differences that underpin progression. We then consider the teaching approaches we use to encourage this progression. This exercise is repeated for the change from level four to level five (associated with completion of the second year of Higher Education study and Foundation Degrees).We then explore the performance criteria for different grades and consider how successful the teaching strategies used by participants might be in assisting students to achieve higher grades.
Within this area
- Learning Matters Lunches
- Discussion group
- Additional sessions and information
- short courses
- Attendance monitoring and student retention
- How the library can support you and your students
- Social and academic integration for students
- Levels and descriptors
- Academic integrity and avoiding plagiarism
- Understanding module and programme approval
- Student expectations of HE in the 'high fee' era
- Creating effective handouts & presentations
- Being a personal tutor
- Technology and student engagement
- Student induction: aims and impacts
- Using blogs, wikis and RLOs to enhance learning
- Supporting the learning of international students
- Main programme - by theme
