Teaching in a Promotion case

It is vital that any university that wishes to have an outstanding teaching programme appropriately recognises achievement from all grades of staff. Awards and prizes are great for the CV and always welcome, but it is through career progression that real motivation to excel can be produced.

Within UCL there is a clear route to apply for promotion predominately based on teaching achievement for academic, teaching and research staff. The guidance sets out a wide variety of evidence of teaching achievement that could be used. Despite this, those that have reached senior positions (in Engineering at least) still seem, to many, like mythical creatures, only a few acknowledge their existence, and virtually no one has ever seen one.

I have met some. All have very different stories to tell as to how they came to this route. It seems that we have a good feel of what a typical research case looks like (we have much more experience and more case studies here), but the range and particularly the depth of activities that could constitute a teaching case are much less well understood. To try and encourage more staff to consider applying through this route, we are organising, with UCL HR, a workshop to look at the specific procedure and draw advice on what a successful case might look like from those that have sat on promotion panels and those that have successfully applied. The workshop is open to all staff.

 

Workshop on using Teaching in a Promotion case.
20th September 2013
12.00 noon  – Roberts 421, Robert’s Building.

Eligible academic, teaching or research staff may apply for promotion to Principal Teaching Fellow or Professor on the basis of teaching achievement. This workshop aims to look at the type of evidence that is required to support such a case and to give examples of the broad range of activities that may be used.

• Overview of Promotion Process
• Advice on teaching achievement
• Case Studies of successful cases
• Q&A Session

Useful Information

Anthony Smith: What do we mean by ‘excellence in teaching’ and how can it be measured?

PROMOTIONS ANNEXURE D – PRESENTING A CASE BASED ON TEACHING ACHIEVEMENT

HEA Best Practice and Guide on evidence of teaching for promotion