Sarah and I chose to look at the UKPSF together as it felt like a topic that would benefit from chewing over and discussing. I think it was a really useful exercise as, although we talk a lot, in this context, we had a really focussed, small amount of time to be with our thoughts, to feed of each others’ thoughts and to get to somewhere new. We didn’t rehearse of have any of the conversation beforehand so it’s interesting to me how quickly and consistently we got to somewhere new.

Areas of Activity: A3 Assess and give feedback to learners

Core knowledge: K3 How students learn, both generally and within their subject/disciplinary area(s)

Professional values: V1 Respect individual learners and diverse learning communities

Take-aways:

Broadening out ways to facilitate staff development e.g. peer observation, reflection, follow ups, etc. to improve both ‘assessment’ really of the effectiveness of our provision and also the feedback (and assessment) for (mostly) staff who attend to deepen their understanding.

The role of compassionate and constructive feedback – connected to the thought above, we need to ask ourselves, how we fold this into our context given we don’t offer formal feedback and assessment.

Thinking critically about where and how we deliver training, especially for students – not online by default!

Advocacy – going to people higher up in CSM to advocate for accessibility and inclusivity. After the conversation finished, we discussed revisiting our previous plan to create an accessibility focussed group at CSM with the Exchange, Disability Services, and the Library. I wonder if we can include the Students’ Union? I’m going to follow this up…

Proactivity – going to the Programmes that we look after and auditing their Moodle pages for accessibility and making recommendations. We do currently make suggestions, and nudge course teams in this direction, but we could be more proactive in this area for sure and Sarah is making a start.