Introduction to Supporting Student Learning (Stage 1 FLTHE)

Anyone is welcome to attend any of the sessions for Stage 1. It is aimed at people who are new to teaching or interested in teaching at the University of Liverpool. Please also see our other programmes (PGCAP or ULTRA linked to above) if you have substantive teaching in HE, or have been teaching for more than three years.

We will not be recording the webinars because they involve student participation and group discussion and so we do not record to protect our participant anonymity and create a safe space for learning where people feel comfortable contributing. However, slides for the sessions will be uploaded to Canvas for you to look through in your own time and there is additional post-class reading for each topic. If you would like to discuss anything with the tutor, you can arrange an online meeting via Teams.

Stage 1 of FLTHE is an introduction to supporting student learning in higher education. We do not require you to attend our programme, however, your department may require you to engage with some training to support you if you are going to be engaged with some teaching and they may feel Stage 1 of FLTHE, an introduction to supporting learning in higher education, is appropriate. You should discuss any training requirements with them. We cover sessions on an introduction to some theory of teaching and learning, introduction to classroom management and inclusion, and introduction to assessment and feedback, and then an opportunity to put these into practice in a face to face session on campus in Liverpool. If you complete all components, we update the CoreHR profile to reflect you have completed Stage 1 and will send you an official email to show your completion.  We do not provide certificates of completion or attendance.

The requirement for attendance we ask for is important if you wish to proceed to complete Stage 2 of FLTHE as a route to Associate Fellowship. For this, you must have a teaching responsibility aligned with Descriptor 1 at the University of Liverpool (this is explained during the teaching sessions for Stage 1), and you must have attended all of Stage 1. This is because the programme is accredited by Advance HE to run in sequence from Stage 1 to Stage 2, and Stage 2 relies on you having engaged with the different components of Stage 1 to put them into practice in your own teaching so you can reflect upon this as part of your assessment for Stage 2.

Please see the answer above for “Do I have to attend?”. Once the cohort you have registered has completed, you will receive an email confirming what you have attended and completed in Stage 1 of FLTHE. You may wish to have this as a record of what you have completed.

We have built flexibility into the design of the programme where if you cannot attend something due to illness or clashes with your timetable, then if you wish to fully complete Stage 1, you are welcome to attend any session that you have missed on one of the scheduled future cohorts. To do this, you can complete this transfer request form.

No, once you have attended a session, we will register you as having completed this session on our records. If you transfer, you do not have to repeat attending a session unless you wish to do so – you can just attend the session you have been unable to attend.

However, we reserve the right to change the programme in future academic years which may impact what is on offer.

If you wish to proceed to complete Stage 2 of FLTHE as a route to Associate Fellowship, you must have a teaching responsibility aligned with Descriptor 1 at the University of Liverpool (this is explained during the teaching sessions for Stage 1), and have attended and engaged with all of Stage 1. This is because the programme is accredited by Advance HE to run in sequence from Stage 1 to Stage 2, and Stage 2 relies on you having engaged with the different components of Stage 1 to put them into practice in your own teaching so you can reflect upon this as part of your assessment for Stage 2. To complete any components you have missed in Stage 1, please complete this form.

This programme is aimed at staff or PGR students at the University of Liverpool who are interested in teaching or are currently new to teaching at the University of Liverpool. The face to face session is planned to give you a space to put into practice what you learn in the webinars, try out some microteaching and gather feedback from peers. For participants who because of reasons of distance are not able to attend face to face, we will offer an online version of this session, However, it will not provide you with the same opportunity to try out skills and ideas in a classroom setting.  For this reason we would encourage you to attend the face to face session if possible.

As part of registration for the programme we will ask you to indicate your preference for the morning or afternoon class for Session four.