Teaching Fellow - Durham, United Kingdom - Durham University

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Teaching Fellow (Grade 7/8)

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Durham Centre for Academic Development

Grade 7/8:

  • £36,333
  • £52,841 per annum (pro rata)
Fixed Term - Part Time


Contracted Hours per Week: 0.5


Working Arrangements: 17.5 Hours per week


Closing Date: 04-Jul-2023, 5:59:00 PM


Disclosure and Barring Service Requirement:
Not Applicable.


Job Title:


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Senior) Teaching Fellow

Department:

DCAD

Grade:
Grade 7/8


Salary range:
£36,333 - £52,841 for 1 FTE pro-rata


Working arrangements: 0.5 FTE hours/week - hybrid working

Closing date: 4th July

2023

The University

  • At Durham University we are proud of our people. A globally outstanding centre of educational excellence, a collegiate community of extraordinary people, a unique and historic setting
  • Durham is a university like no other. We believe that inspiring our people to do outstanding things at Durham enables Durham people to do outstanding things professionally and personally.

Across the University we have a huge variety of roles and career opportunities, which together make us a large and successful community, which is a key hub of activity within our region and nationally.

We would be thrilled if you would consider joining our thriving University. Further information about the University can be found here


The Role and Department

Durham Centre for Academic Development (DCAD)

  • Inspiring excellence in learning and teaching. Using technology imaginatively and with relevance. Nurturing inclusive learning communities. Inspiring lifelong learners. The Durham Centre for Academic Development (DCAD) fosters education by design.
    DCAD is

a resource open to all students

  • Offering a wide range high quality educational programmes and opportunities to enhance learning, to ensure that all students, no matter what their need, have the opportunity to realise their full potential.

an educational partner for life

  • Engaging learners at all points presessional, undergraduate, postgraduate and throughout their professional development within a lifelong community. Because knowing how to learn, is knowing how to teach.

an opportunity to develop pedagogic skills and new practice

  • Delivering professional development programmes for careers at all stages: from training for teaching practitioners in their early years, to supporting experienced practitioners to hone their craft. Pushing the boundaries of pedagogic practice and building bridges between scholarly research and teaching practice.

a forum to share best practice

  • Providing regular scholarship events, conferences and networking opportunities. Designing platforms for educators, both new and experienced, to share and learn from each other.
  • The Durham Centre for Academic Development (DCAD) seeks to appoint a talented individual to the role of (Senior) Teaching Fellow in the area of Academic Development. This role, available as 0.
5 FTE for a period of 6 months will lead on:


  • The support of Education track staff institutionally to engage in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
  • The development and delivery of a course of workshops focussed on the Evaluation for Excellence toolkit, which all teaching staff at the University must engage with as part of their promotion process.
  • Developing a research informed approach to authentic assessment, a key element in our new principles of Learning, Teaching and Assessment. This will include the development of an asynchronous learning resource.
  • Teaching Fellowships offer the opportunity of valuable experience to those early in their academic careers and the University is keen to maximise the benefit to as many people as possible. The post of Teaching Fellow will involve a significant teaching load, which may extend into the summer period, and there may be related scholarship and the opportunity for administrative duties which relate to education and pedagogy.
  • Successful applicants will, ideally be in post by 1 September 2023

Key Responsibilities

At Grade 7

  • Teach modules in appropriate learning environments at postgraduate levels, demonstrating an increasing awareness of different approaches to and methods of teaching and supporting student learning;
  • Demonstrate the ability to manage own teaching and designing, planning and writing teaching materials;
  • Lead some aspects of modules and contribute to modules led by others by collaborating with colleagues on course development;
  • Develop and deliver an inclusive curriculum and make an active contribution to an inclusive community in which diversity is embraced and celebrated;
  • Seek and take on board feedback on teaching and engage with others in CPD;
  • Supervise undergraduate student(s), and where appropriate act as part of a PhD supervisory team;
  • Contribute to educational skill of colleagues, e.g. giving a seminar to colleagues or engaging in constructive discussion abou
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