LTA Connect - Exploring and celebrating the SLE: Prospect to Alumnus - Exploring Student Transition through a lens of Belonging and Community

Session Outline

This session explores student transitions within the context of tertiary education in Scotland, informed by the Tertiary Quality Enhancement Framework, specifically supporting student success. The session explores how approaches to student transition have been designed and delivered in alignment with the SPARQs Student Learning Experience model, informed by a two-phase consultation on belonging and community.

Presenter

Dr Emily McIntosh has held a variety of leadership roles in learning, teaching and the student experience in several UK universities. She joined the University of the West of Scotland (UWS) as Director of Student Success in January 2023. Emily is a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (PFHEA, 2017) and a National Teaching Fellow (NTF, 2021). She is an Executive Member & Trustee of the Heads of Educational Development (HEDG) group and an Independent Board Member of Trafford & Stockport College Group (TSCG). Emily has published widely on a variety of topics from academic advising, personal tutoring and peer learning to integrated practice.

Learning and Teaching Enhancement Strategy Values

Advance HE Professional Standards Framework

• V1 respect individual learners and diverse groups of learners
• V3 use scholarship, or research, or professional learning, or other evidence-informed approaches as a basis for effective practice
• A1 design and plan learning activities and/or programmes
• K2 approaches to teaching and/or supporting learning, appropriate for subjects and level of study
• A1 design and plan learning activities and/or programmes
• A4 support and guide learners 

Professional Standard's for Scotland's Colleges

• 1.2.3 3 Promotes, enables and empowers students to engage and achieve in learning in order to maximise their potential. 
• 2.2.2 Understands the rationale for, and how to design, plan, develop, deliver the curriculum effectively and efficiently as an individual and in collaboration with others. 
• 2.2.10 Understands how to interpret and share data to inform learning, teaching and assessment.
• 3.3.1 Designs, delivers and evaluates a demand-led curriculum which prepares the students for a dynamic labour market. 
• 2.4.2  Understands how to support a student to take the next steps in their learning journey

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