This first webinar will cover the new guidance for institutes and individuals, highlight useful Advance HE resources, and include new award winners and ‘old’ hands sharing their journey to NTF.

1. Welcome to the NTF
briefing series for 2023
Facilitated by Prof Debbie Holley (NTF) with Prof Angela O'Sullivan (Chair ANTF) Prof
Sally Brown (NTF and former ANTF Chair) and welcoming Kate Coulson, one of our
'new' 2022 intake. Supported by Dr Danielle Hargreaves & Karen Hustler from
the Teaching Excellence Awards Team (Advance HE)

2. Welcome to webinar series: Prof Angela O'Sullivan, Chair, ANTF
The NTF application process: Prof Debbie Holley
The joys of the NTF journey: Prof Sally Brown
Planning your own journey: Kate Coulson, University of Northampton
Advance HE perspective: Danielle Hargreaves & Karen Hustler
Panel Q&A: Participants, Debbie, Angela, Sally, Kate and Danielle
And tweet! @NTF_Tweet
NTF briefing format: please
add questions into the chat

4. Warm up activity!
On a post-it note or in the chat
write: what are you excellent at
when facilitating learning for
your students?

5. Activity One: using your post-its start to list
'individual excellence'

6. What's my story? Prof Angela O'Sullivan
I was awarded my NTF in 2017 and really enjoyed being part of this
amazing community. I joined the Committee of the Association of
NTFs in 2020 and was elected as the Chair in 2022. I mentor
potential NTFs, support application workshops and I am an
Advance HE reviewer.

7. The timeline
• Call for nominations released: 3rd October 2022
• NTFS nominations close: Wednesday 08th March 2023 12:00 GMT
• Public announcement of 2022 winners: 3 August 2023
• All the detailed information, template for application, video clips and lots more
from AdvanceHE!
Photo by Agê Barros on Unsplash

8. In It Together: diversifying and fostering a
more inclusive NTF community
• Advance HE collects and analyses Equal Opportunities
Monitoring data from all nominees annually. Data indicates
under-representation of the following groups of staff in
comparison to sector HESA data:
– Staff from minority ethnic groups
– Professional staff
– Part time and fractional staff
– HE Staff working within FE environment
• The ‘In It Together project’: raise awareness and share
‘lived’ experiences and insights across the NTF community
• Ally badges are being developed to indicate where past
winners are happy to be contacted by aspiring NTFs from
under-represented groups

9. The criterion
Individual
excellence
impact
Raising
the
profile
of
excellence
impact
Developing
excellence
impact

10. Criterion 1: Individual excellence:
Evidence of enhancing and transforming student outcomes and/or the teaching
profession; demonstrating impact commensurate with the individual’s context and
the opportunities afforded by it.
This may, for example, be demonstrated by providing evidence
of the impact of:
• stimulating students’ curiosity and interest in ways which inspire a commitment
to learning;
• organising and presenting high quality resources in accessible, coherent and
imaginative ways which in turn clearly enhance students’ learning;
• recognising and actively supporting the full diversity of student learning
requirements;
• drawing upon the outcomes of relevant research, scholarship and professional
practice in ways which add value to teaching and students’ learning;
• engaging with and contributing to the established literature or to the nominee’s
own evidence base for teaching and learning.

11. Criterion 2: Raising the profile of excellence
Evidence of supporting colleagues and influencing support for student learning
and/or the teaching profession; including demonstrating impact and engagement
beyond the nominee’s immediate academic or professional role
This may, for example, be demonstrated by providing
evidence of the impact of:
• making outstanding contributions to colleagues’ professional development
in relation to promoting and enhancing student learning;
• contributing to departmental/faculty/institutional/national initiatives to
facilitate students’ learning;
• contributing to and/or supporting meaningful and positive change with
respect to pedagogic practice, policy and/or procedure.

12. Criterion 3: Developing excellence
Show the nominee’s commitment to and impact of ongoing professional development
with regard to teaching and learning and/or learning support.
This may, for example, be demonstrated by providing
evidence of the impact of:
• on-going review and enhancement of individual professional
practice;
• engaging in professional development activities which enhance the
nominee’s expertise in teaching and learning support;
• specific contributions to enable significant improvements in
students’ outcomes and/or experience.

13. Pause for questions and answers
from chat themes

14. Getting started.....
Section A non scored 300
word Context Statement
Section B claim against the criteria
1,500 words per criterion
And.... please write it yourself!

15. Changes?
• Some changes to process (covered in our third session together)
• Scoring – from 0-5 to 0-9 to enable more nuanced allocations amongst excellence
See Appendix 4 of the guidance for the scoring rubric for all three criteria

16. The joy of the NTF:
Prof Sally Brown
@ProfSallyBrown

17. The joy of the NTF
• I knew the scheme very well, because I had set it
up from scratch when I worked for the Institute for Learning
and Teaching, now Advance HE;
• Sometime after I left, I was encouraged by the university
where I was PVC, Leeds Beckett, to apply and was delighted
to be successful;
• My application was built on decades contributing to the
learning community around teaching, learning and particularly
assessment in Higher Education.

18. Think: mentors, teams and collaborations
Read: Prof Sally Browns advice to prospective NTFs

19. The NTF journey, planning and where it
can take you...

20. I am a brand new NTF; awarded in Summer 2022. (I also applied in
2021 and was unsuccessful; I hid and cried in a cupboard!)
The process of writing my NTF was very rewarding – I really had to
dig deep and reflect deeply on my career up until that point. I re-
wrote section three about five times.
To achieve NTF you have to believe in yourself and your work. I had
to work on that personal challenge to successfully write my NTF.
Kate's Top Tips:
1) make sure your voice can be heard in the writing
2) work out 'your' story
3) Evidence, evidence, evidence is my mantra
Kate Coulson
@K8teCoulson
NTF photo taken
in a lockdown at
a local park by
my brother-in-
law.
Never wear white to
the awards dinner.

21. Our panel questions and answers
from chat themes

22. Good luck and we hope you join us next year!

23. Further information and all the
information on the AdvanceHE
website link here
And we want to flag up the fabulous
CATE team awards link here