The document summarizes a meeting of the university's Teaching Fellow Network. The aims of the network are to provide support for teaching fellows' scholarly development and represent their views. At the meeting, teaching fellows shared experiences of promotion through different career grades and discussed current and potential scholarship activities. They formed working groups focused on topics like e-learning, language support, and student support to further collaborative scholarship. Future activities discussed included a joint meeting with the research staff network and a Teaching Fellow Network mini-conference to disseminate innovative teaching and learning work.

1. ∂
Welcome
• The aims of the network:
• To provide support and mentoring to teaching fellows across the
university to develop scholarly activity and to provide a
mechanism to allow additional interdepartmental scholarship
activity.
• To provide a forum for advice and support on probation and
promotion activity for teaching fellows.
• To act as a voice to represent the views of Teachings Fellows at
University level.

2. ∂
The Purpose of Today
• Opportunities to share experiences of Promotion in the
new TF Career Pathway
• Share experiences of scholarship already underway
• Plan for future scholarship and identify possible
scholarship groups

3. ∂
Schedule for Today
• Talks and general discussions on the role of scholarship in
progression and promotion
• 14:45-15:15 Sharing Experiences of Starting Scholarship,
Facilitated Discussion
• 15:15-15:50 Forming Working Groups for development,
Facilitated Discussion
• 15:50-16:00 Further Meetings

4. Sharing Promotion Experiences

5. ∂
Talks and Discussion
• 14:00-14:15 Grade 7 to Grade 8
Penny Johnson, MLAC & Simon Rees, FC
• 14:15-14:30 Grade 8 to Grade 9
Megan Bruce, Foundation Centre
• 14:30-14:45 Grade 9 to Grade 10
David Waugh, School of Ed

6. Sharing Experience of Scholarship
Developing Scholarship Support Communities

7. ∂
Different Themes/Tables
E-
Learning
Language
Support
Study
Skills
Student
Support
Facilitator – E Tan (LTT)
Facilitator – S Leech (FC)
Facilitator – P Johnson (MLAC)
Facilitator – J Robson (Chem)

8. ∂
Sharing Experiences/Ideas
• Share what learning and teaching activities you’ve been
involved with
• Is this something you have/would like to disseminate
more widely
• What was that experience like ?
• How could the TFN help you in disseminating ?
• Are there common themes/ideas ? Are there places you
could work together ?
• Would mentoring help ?

9. Working Groups & Mentoring
Future Plans and Scholarship Groups

10. ∂
Ideas for further activities
• Use the post-it notes to outline plans for further
scholarship activity
• Post under the appropriate heading:
• E-learning
• Study Skills
• Student Support
• Language Support
• Other
• Return to appropriate tables to discuss how to form a
scholarship group
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11. ∂
Next Meeting
• We’re planning two meetings
• A joint meeting with the Researcher Network around short term
contracts
• Teaching Fellow Network Mini-Conference
• Learning, Teaching & Scholarship Day Meeting (September)
• Plan to expand into a National Teaching Fellow Conference next year

12. ∂
Meeting with Researchers Network
• We’re at the early stages of organizing a joint meeting
with the research staff network, focused on issues around
staff on short term contracts.
• Many TFs and PDRAs share issues around:
• Career Progression
• Workload
• Representation

13. ∂
TFN – Mini-Conference
• Friday 19th September 2014
• A meeting to showcase the innovative learning, teaching
and scholarship being undertaken by Teaching Fellows at
Durham.
• The event should be a great opportunity to disseminate
your own work and offer networking opportunities for
those interested in similar ideas.

14. ∂
All members are all invited to contribute talks on their own
learning, teaching and scholarship activities.
Please access the link below to submit abstracts of around
150-200 words
http://community.dur.ac.uk/teachingfellow.network/?q=nod
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TFN – Mini-Conference