Staff and Departmental Development Unit Teaching Enhancement Scheme (TES) Professor Mike McPherson (Pro-Dean Student Education FBS) & Clara Davies (SDDU) TES can reflect and develop the enhancement activities that should already be taking place

Teaching Enhancement Scheme Teaching Enhancement Scheme; Replaces peer review of teaching scheme All staff are expected to engage Confidential and separate from management processes Developmental, supporting CV and promotion evidence Can incorporate existing activities Strategic and/or staff choice of topics Light touch co-ordination Reporting of non-confidential outcomes

University of Leeds Teaching Enhancement Scheme (TES) September 2013 PLAN What do we want to focus on and why? How do we want teaching/learning to benefit? How are we going to achieve this? How will we know success? Will we need any support? What are the timescales for the TES process? DO Implement agreed plan DO Implement agreed plan REFLECT Analyse: outcomes achieved? REFLECT Analyse: outcomes achieved? FUTURE ACTIONS Success: Implement and disseminate Some benefits: continue another cycle? No benefit: Re-focus Plan stage or move on and disseminate FUTURE ACTIONS Success: Implement and disseminate Some benefits: continue another cycle? No benefit: Re-focus Plan stage or move on and disseminate Normally 1-2 year cycle Light touch co- ordination and reporting

Staff information and forms Website with links to the TES documentation: TES Policy FAQ’s CASE studies TES forms: (1) Record of Starting a TES cycle (2) For Participants to record their activities (3) Non-confidential Report form

TES Pilot Studies Pilot studies were undertaken during and used distinct approaches; School of Mathematics Defined topics and some direction Prof John Wood School of Healthcare Staff choice Dr Janet Holt

ActivityDate TES policy and supporting information  Heads of School & DSEs To include a standard presentation for DSEs to use in schools September 2013 AQST to include TES update on the agenda for the annual DSE event 1 st October 2013 School staff to discuss and agree their preferred way forward for the year e.g. at first School academic staff meeting of the new academic year October 2013 School to agree named person to take responsibility for overall co-ordination of the Scheme during the current year  TES co-ordinator network and potential for discussion list October 2013 Heads of School or TES Co-ordinator to communicate details of the scheme to relevant staff in the School October – December Completed forms - part 1 to be returned to TES co-ordinator Progress on TES involvement to be reported to FTSEC February 2014 STSEC to report through its minutes on outcomes from TES during the year and to form part of School’s Action Plan June 2014 Staff meetings, academic staff away-days and/or good practice working groups to discuss outcomes from TES and to report on and share good practice As appropriate Programme Review - FTSEC to consider, act on and report outcomes as appropriate October / November 2014 Annual review meeting of TES co-ordinators or DSEs to review the different ways in which TES has been implemented July 2014 Collect examples of approaches for case studies July 2014 Implementation plan 2013/14