Engaging the learner and ensuring high quality learning
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Learner engagement starts with the lecturer.
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative
expression and knowledge. (Albert Einstein)
I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally
disturbed teachers. (Woody Allen)
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Engage the learner
Support the learner
Provide feedback
Engage and Support Learners in the Learning and Development
Process (SVQ Learning and Development at SCQF)
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Establish and maintain a positive relationship.
Provide the learner with information and advice.
Enable the learner to engage with their own learning.
Assist the learner to access skills, knowledge and experience.
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Lecturer as Facilitator
…intelligently directed discovery of the meanings inherent in
ordinary experience. (John Dewey, 1938)
The role of the teacher in the classroom has shifted from the
primary role of information giver to that of facilitator, guide, and
learner. (Jones, Valdez, Nowakowski, & Rasmussen, 1994)
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Quality starts with the lecturer.
Managed by the whole institution.
Requires effective evaluation of learning and teaching.
Quality assurance operates at internal and external levels.
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SQA’s Quality Framework: a guide for centres
Principal aim is to ensure that standards are set and consistently
maintained.
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Quality Assurance policy and procedures.
The responsibility for quality is embedded within the roles and
duties of staff at every level in the institution.
Review and development of College operations and processes.
Use of Performance Indicators.
It must result in more successful learners.
If we don’t succeed, we run the risk of failure. Dan Quayle
