Thinking about appying for a Nationa Teaching Feowship? A series of pop-up events in support of peope panning to appy for NTF2017 and ooking forward to NTF2018. Led by Members of the Committee of the Association of Nationa Teaching Feows (ANTF) and Coeagues March 2017 http://ntf-association.com @ntf_tweet
How to use these sides? These sides are intended as a guide for anyone running workshops about the scheme this year. Fee free to use any of the content in your own presentations. The content is argey from the HEA website, and no further amendments have been received from the HEA to date. Points to emphasize are in green text, and ANTF comments are in red.
The teaching feowship scheme is an umbrea scheme made up of a range of awards: The Nationa Teaching Feows Scheme; Coaborative Award for Teaching Exceence; Teaching Exceence Ambassadors. Most of the advice offered in this presentation is taken directy from the HEA website but aways doube check by referring to their website: https://www.heacademy.ac.uk/individuas/nationa-teaching-feowshipscheme/ntf?utm_source=crm&utm_campaign=professiona %20Practice%20-%20NTFS&utm_medium=Emai&utm_content=HEA %20Update%20March%202017
Background The purpose of the Nationa Teaching Feowship Scheme is to recognise, reward and ceebrate individuas who are judged to make an outstanding impact on the student earning experience, and provide the means to deveop a proactive community of Nationa Teaching Feows (NTFs). The Higher Education Academy (HEA) organises and runs the Scheme (with funding from the Higher Education Funding Counci for Engand (HEFCE), the Higher Education Funding Counci for Waes (HEFCW) and the Department for the Economy (DfE) Northern Ireand (now incorporating the responsibiities of DELNI) with advice and guidance from the UK Teaching Exceence Awards Advisory Pane (the Pane). The Pane advises on the criteria, the processes of assessment and moderation, and the seection of the winners. The Pane consists of a range of representatives from across the sector and other reevant stakehoders.
An emergent scheme It s been running since 2000; There are now amost 750 NTFs across a discipines and types of HEI The scheme has changed over the years and is changing further now; The very substantia cash reward has been reduced over the years; Advice from ANTF: It s sti reay worth doing!
Key things to note for 2017! Cosing date 12 noon 25 th Apri 2017 Nominations must be submitted by the specified NTFS/ CATE coordinator in each institution. To register as the NTFS/ CATE coordinator and gain og in detais for the onine nomination system emai ntfsindividua@heacademy.ac.uk ANTF advice: don t eave submission to the ast minute and get a time for signing it into the VC s diary!
What s new this year? A significanty reduced word ength aowed (down to 3,500 words from 5,000); Reduced word ength for CV (down from 1,500 to 1,000 words); The marking scheme shows more ceary how points are awarded; There s a strengthened emphasis on the importance of it being one s own work and that the HEA wi use pagiarism software to check appications; There is a greater emphasis on the student voice and evidence from students; You need to pre-register in order to upoad an appication. ANTF advice: pre-register now!
What s aso new? The nominee shoud not be the team eader of a current CATE nomination. Staff contracted to HE providers in Engand, Waes or Northern Ireand but working at an overseas campus wi be eigibe to be nominated. A nominee shoud be a Feow (any category) of the HEA or be working towards Feowship.
Eigibiity Eigibe institutions are invited to nominate up to three individua members of staff who ceary demonstrate exceence in teaching and/or supporting the higher education earning experience of students. In nominating these individuas, institutions are strongy encouraged to consider the fu diversity of roes that support the student earning experience. The text of the Caim shoud be the work of the nominee ony. The HEA may process nominations through anti pagiarism software.
What are the benefits to individuas? It is widey recognised in HE in the UK and internationay as difficut to achieve and a mark of quaity as awards are made each year from a arge number of nominations. It opens doors: many NTFs find they can use the award as a springboard to progress their careers. You join a nationa community of ike-minded professionas who are passionate about teaching.the ANTF network is a fantasticay supportive community of earning and their annua symposia are enjoyabe networking events; The cash eement can give you some fexibiity to attend conferences and to trave where institutiona budgets are constrained.
What are the benefits for institutions? Increasingy used as a mode to deveop and extend university-wide schemes, aiming to raise the status of teaching and insti pride in the profession and student earning. Can be a foca point for discussions about innovation and professiona deveopment past NTFS funding has enabed NTFs to capitaise on their status and bid for extra funding for research and projects to enhance earning and teaching. Can enabe staff to cross boundaries, coaborating with coeagues in other discipines and forging inks with universities nationay and internationay.
Nominations In deveoping nominations, eigibe institutions shoud identify what is innovative, incusive and exceent practice within their own organisationa settings (as we as, in brief, and where appropriate, how far this may refect nationa and/or internationa practices). The HEA and the UK Teaching Exceence Awards Pane recognise that exceence in teaching and earning support wi be situated within specific academic, professiona and institutiona contexts and consider that exceent practice shoud be incusive practice. Athough the HEA and the UK Teaching Exceence Awards Advisory Pane appreciate that some advice or assistance from the institution or an externa mentor may be deemed appropriate, the text of the Caim shoud be the work of the nominee ony. The HEA may process nominations through anti-pagiarism software.
Career stage, sustained impact and equa opportunities Eigibe institutions are strongy encouraged to nominate individuas at any stage of their career who undertake any roe(s) which ceary contribute to the enhancement of the student earning experience. Nominees shoud demonstrate impact on student earning over a sustained period. The HEA is committed to equaity of opportunity. In this process it ensures that no nominee is treated ess favouraby than others on the grounds of gender, race, nationaity, ethnic or nationa origin, reigious or poitica beiefs, disabiity, marita status, socia background, famiy circumstances, sexua orientation, gender reassignment, spent crimina convictions, age, or for any other unawfu reason. The HEA and the funders expect institutions to ensure their own processes to identify nominees are grounded in appropriate equaity and diversity good practice.
Important to note: Nominations are made by a centra contact at the institution (NTFS institutiona contact) through an onine system hosted by the HEA s Virtua Learning Environment (VLE). The NTFS institutiona contact wi have been issued with a username and password for this system. Fu instructions wi be provided. A provider can withdraw a candidate up to one week prior to the Pane resuts meeting. ANTF advice: famiiarise yoursef with the porta soon!
Nomination documents shoud comprise as separate documents: Caim for Nationa Teaching Feowship: a statement written by the individua of how they demonstrate exceence reevant to each of the three award criteria (maximum 3500 words). Signed Statement of Support from the institution s Vice-Chanceor or equivaent, this document shoud be submitted as a Word document, however can aso be submitted as a scanned PDF to incude the signature (maximum 1000 words). Brief Curricuum Vitae (maximum 1000 words). Nomination Form avaiabe via the HEA website.
The three criteria Individua exceence: evidence of enhancing and transforming the student earning experience commensurate with the individua s context and the opportunities afforded by it. Raising the profie of exceence: evidence of supporting coeagues and infuencing support for student earning; demonstrating impact and engagement beyond the nominee s immediate academic or professiona roe. Deveoping exceence: evidence of the nominee s commitment to her/his ongoing professiona deveopment with regard to teaching and earning and/ or earning support.
The Caim for Nationa Teaching Feowship: nominees are required to present their exceence caim against the three criteria with reference to exampes of supporting evidence, which may incude (but need not be confined to): student feedback and evauations, feedback from peer observations, feedback from other nationa engagements, student support materias, work with other partner institutions and organisations. The decision of what constitutes appropriate evidence rests with the nominating institution and the individua nominee but nominees are encouraged to ensure that the student voice is expicit in their nomination. Individuas from various academic discipines inevitaby demonstrate different communication and anaytica styes and this wi be accounted for in the assessment process. As such there is no stye that is expected in appications and exampes wi be assessed and marked for their contribution to the criteria as a whoe.
Signed Statement of Support: The supporting statement from the institution s Vice Chanceor or equivaent is an essentia and critica aspect of the nomination. It is recommended that the nominee s caim for a NTF is read prior to composing the institutiona supporting statement. Pease provide evauative comments under the 3 criteria. In particuar, the statement shoud: endorse the vaidity of the nominee s caim for exceence, provide an institutiona context within which the nominee has been identified as exceent, provide confirmation of support of the nominee, shoud they be successfu, in terms of carrying out the requirements associated with a Nationa Teaching Feowship, provide any additiona supporting information which might be most appropriatey expressed by the Vice-Chanceor or equivaent rather than the nominee her/ himsef. provide the name, job tite and signature of the supporter (eectronic signatures are permitted within this document)
The CV Nominees are advised to focus on their experience and outputs with a view to demonstrating a robust commitment to enhancing and supporting student earning and deivering, or faciitating, teaching exceence. The formatting requirements appy to the CV too. As a guide for the production of the CV the foowing headings may be incuded (but need not be confined to): Quaifications Awards Past empoyment, roes and achievements Current roes and appointments Nationa and internationa contributions to education or subject sector Pubications (education reated) Conference Papers and Workshop Faciitations Non-Accredited Training and Deveopment
Nomination Form: Nominees must submit a competed form with the three other nomination documents (i.e. Caim, Statement of Support and CV). The appication form, avaiabe to downoad at www.heacademy.ac.uk/ntfs, contains information used for interna administration purposes and wi not be sent to reviewers. A sections must be competed in fu. Forms shoud be submitted in Microsoft Word format, athough the page 5 signature shoud be submitted as a PDF document. Persona profies (compusory but not assessed).
What shoud be incuded within the nomination form? Nominees must provide a 350-word persona profie, three useabe photographs of a minimum of 1Mb or 300dpi, a 50 word summary of the persona profie and two 20 word quotes. Persona profies wi not be assessed as part of the appication. However, pease note that persona profies and quotes are a required component for a compete submission to the NTFS. These wi be used by the HEA for promotiona purposes when the winners are announced. In submitting images to the HEA, you are providing consent for the HEA to use your images for promotiona purposes or pubicity (the Purpose ). You confirm that you are the owner of any inteectua property rights or have an appropriate icence to share your images with the HEA and for the HEA to use your images for the Purpose.
Assessing the three criteria A nominees wi be assessed on the evidence provided in the core nomination documents (Caim, Statement of Support and CV) in reation to each of the three criteria. You shoud ensure the reevant evidence is incuded under the correct criterion. ANTF advice: when writing your appication, be carefu to baance equay the evidence for each criteria.
Criterion 1 Individua exceence: evidence of enhancing and transforming the student earning experience commensurate with the individua s context and the opportunities afforded by it. This may, for exampe, be demonstrated by providing evidence of: stimuating students curiosity and interest in ways which inspire a commitment to earning; organising and presenting high quaity resources in accessibe, coherent and imaginative ways which in turn ceary enhance students earning; recognising and activey supporting the fu diversity of student earning needs; drawing upon the resuts of reevant research, schoarship and professiona practice in ways which add vaue to teaching and students earning; engaging with and contributing to the estabished iterature or to the nominee s own evidence base for teaching and earning.
Criterion 2 Raising the profie of exceence: evidence of supporting coeagues and infuencing support for student earning; demonstrating impact and engagement beyond the nominee s immediate academic or professiona roe. This may, for exampe, be demonstrated by providing evidence of: making outstanding contributions to coeagues professiona deveopment in reation to promoting and enhancing student earning; contributing to departmenta/ facuty/ institutiona/ nationa initiatives to faciitate student earning; contributing to and/or supporting meaningfu and positive change with respect to pedagogic practice, poicy and/or procedure.
Criterion 3: Deveoping exceence: evidence of the nominee s commitment to her/his ongoing professiona deveopment with regard to teaching and earning and/or earning support. This may, for exampe, be demonstrated by providing evidence of: on-going review and enhancement of individua professiona practice; engaging in professiona deveopment activities which enhance the nominee s expertise in teaching and earning support; engaging in the review and enhancement of one s own professiona and/or academic practice; specific contributions to significant improvements in the student earning experience.
It s important to note that nominees shoud address and make a specific caim against each criterion in turn; each of the three criteria above is given equa consideration in the assessment process; nominees shoud not fee imited by the iustrative exampes: these are designed to provide indicative areas of evidence for each criterion; the scheme recognises impact and engagement beyond a nominee s immediate academic or professiona roe; the nature of the institutiona context and each individua nominee s opportunity to contribute wi be taken into account and therefore shoud be made expicit in the submission. A nominee may, for exampe, have made a significant contribution to earning and teaching in an area that fas outside his/her substantive institutiona roe.
Assessment by Reviewers and Marking Scheme Nominations are considered by independent, externa peer reviewers who wi judge nominations on the information submitted against the three headine criteria. No information other than the core nomination documents submitted wi be taken into consideration. The reviewers are a experienced in criteria-based assessment and have undertaken training before they review nominations. A nominations are doube reviewed and a 10% sampe is reviewed by a third reviewer as part of our Quaity Assurance process.
More about assessment by reviewers and the marking scheme Any nominations where reviewers disagree by a tota (aggregated mark over three criteria) of five marks or more are reviewed by a third reviewer and referred to the Pane. The HEA wi aocate reviewers using the information provided by the nominee in the nomination form to avoid conficts of interest. The reviewers submit their assessment ratings and comments to the HEA which oversees the standardisation of assessment and reports to the Pane. The reviewers rate each of the criteria using the marking scheme beow and the criteria are equay weighted in the assessment process.
The outstanding submission (5 points) provides cear evidence that the nominee: meets the criterion in highy expicit, reevant and innovative ways; demonstrates that s/he has made an outstanding contribution that has had a transformative impact on student earning over a range of projects both internay and externay to the nominating institution; has significanty raised the profie and/or standard of earning and teaching through his/her work in the given context; demonstrates commitment to raising the status of teaching and earning in higher education; the evidence presented ceary demonstrates the impact of the individua on their institution and their sector on a nationa and/or internationa scae; evidence is extensive demonstrating breadth and depth of experience over a sustained period within the sector. The evidence provided toward this criterion is fuy commensurate with that expected of a Nationa Teaching Feow.
The very good submission (4 points) provides cear evidence that the nominee: meets the criterion in expicit, reevant and innovative ways; demonstrates that s/he has made an exceent contribution to and significant impact on student earning across a range of projects either internay or externay to the nominating institutions; has ceary raised the profie and/or standard of earning and teaching through his/her work in the given context; demonstrates a commitment to raising the status of teaching and earning in higher education. the evidence presented ceary demonstrates the impact of the individua on their institution and their sector; evidence demonstrating breadth and depth of experience over a sustained period within the sector. The evidence provided toward this criterion is very ceary commensurate with that expected of a Nationa Teaching Feow.
The submission provides cear evidence (3 points) that the nominee: meets the criterion in expicit and reevant ways; demonstrates that s/he has made a good contribution to and impact on student earning; has raised the profie and/or standard of earning and teaching through his/her work in the given context; demonstrates a commitment to raising the status of teaching and earning in the future. the evidence presented demonstrates the impact of the individua on their institution and their sector; evidence demonstrating breadth or depth of experience over a period within the sector. The evidence provided toward this criterion is commensurate with that expected of a Nationa Teaching Feow.
The submission (2 points); demonstrates incompete fufiment of the criterion; offers some specific and reevant evidence that is, however, imited in breadth and/or depth; demonstrates that the nominee has, to a imited degree, heped raise the profie and/or standard of earning and teaching; demonstrates some commitment to raising the status of teaching and earning in higher education; The evidence provided in this submission is not commensurate with the standard expected of a Nationa Teaching Feow
The submission (1 points) demonstrates imited fufiment of the criterion; offers imited evidence that acks depth and/or breadth; demonstrates that the nominee has, to a very imited degree, heped raise the profie and/or standard of earning and teaching; demonstrates some commitment to raising the status of teaching and earning in higher education. The evidence provided in this submission is not commensurate with the standard expected of a Nationa Teaching Feow
The submission (0 points) does not demonstrate fufiment of the criterion; provides itte or no expicit and/or reevant evidence of meeting the criterion. The evidence provided in this submission is not commensurate with the standard expected of a Nationa Teaching Feow
Potentia conficts of interest The Pane wi make its judgements on the basis of the reviewers assessments and comments. The reviewers and members of the Pane wi not be permitted to consider nominations from their own institution, or from any institution with which there may be a confict of interest. Pane members take no part in the nomination process within their own institution*. The Pane does not assess individua nominations and ony reviews anonymous data derived from the assessment process. *ANTF advice: note this any pane members!
The three nomination documents (Statement of Support, Caim for Nationa Teaching Feowship, and CV) must adhere to a the foowing formatting requirements: Word imits: A section headings, text within tabes or diagrams, numerica characters and any references wi count towards the word imit; Statement of Support: maximum 1000 words and submitted as a Word document (unsigned). The Statement can aso be submitted in PDF form if incuding a hard copy signature; Caim for Nationa Teaching Feowship: maximum 3500 words and submitted as a Word document; Curricuum Vitae : maximum 1000 words and submitted as a Word document.
Fina word count The entire document shoud be highighted and the word count too utiised, ensuring that the tick box incude textboxes, footnotes and endnotes is seected, to add up a reevant free text. If any text is incuded in diagrams, this shoud be added to the word count tota and the tota sum shoud be stated at the end of the document. Headers and footers, used for the nominee s name, nominating institution and page numbers, are not counted.
The detais Font: Aria 12 point; Page orientation: A4 portrait ony; Line spacing: 1.5 ines; Margins: 2cm minimum (not incuding footers); Headers: Shoud contain the nominee s fu name and nominating institution ony; Footer: Shoud indicate page x of y ony. Footnotes: shoud not be used. References shoud be incuded in the body text or put as endnotes, which shoud be added to the fina word count; Pictures: the caim shoud not contain any pictures or ogos; Diagrams: are permitted. Any text appearing within the diagram shoud be manuay counted and stated next to the diagram in brackets and added to the fina word count.
More detais and a warning! Web inks: shoud ony be used for reference and put in the end notes. The content of web inks wi not be considered in the nomination; Fie Saving Conventions: The foowing convention shoud be incuded for exampe J.Boggs_UniofPoppeton_Caim The UK Teaching Exceence Awards Advisory Pane supports a strict appication of the above formatting requirements to ensure fairness and consistency to a nominees. We reserve the right to reject any nominations faiing to adhere to these requirements, the requirement check wi be made after the deadine therefore non-compiance coud resut in remova from the process. It is therefore the responsibiity of the nominating institution and individua nominee to ensure that the nomination adheres to the requirements with regard to formatting, required signatures and word imits.
Additiona information requests Equaity and Diversity Form: The HEA is committed to promoting equaity and diversity and wishes to coect data on nominees for statistica monitoring. After appications have been received nominees wi be contacted by emai with an Equaity and Diversity survey which is anonymous and not inked to the appication. Nominations wi not be compete (and therefore reviewed) unti this form has been submitted. The Equaity and Diversity survey wi be sent to the nominee directy, via emai from the HEA. This shoud be submitted by return as the nomination is not compete without submission of the survey. The submission is anonymous but competion is tracked.
Submission and receipt of nominations The nomination documents must be upoaded to the HEA VLE by the NTFS institutiona contact (who wi have been issued with a VLE username and password) by 12 noon on 25 th Apri 2017. If the institution is submitting more than one nomination, the NTFS institutiona contact is abe to upoad the mutipe documents using the same username and password for each nomination so it is essentia that the correct fie naming convention is adopted. The NTFS institutiona contact is acting on behaf of their institution and wi be assumed by the HEA to be acting in accordance with the expectations of their senior management when submitting their institution s nomination(s).
Has it got there safey? Receipt of upoaded nominations wi be acknowedged by automatic emai to the individua that submitted the appication. A nomination shoud ony be considered successfuy submitted on receipt of a fina confirmation emai from the Professiona Practice team. This fina emai wi ony be sent after a further manua check to ensure a documents meet the formatting requirements. If the institutiona contact has not heard from the HEA five working days after submitting the nomination(s), they must contact the Professiona Practice team at ntfsindividua@heacademy.ac.uk or teephone: 01904 717500 at their eariest convenience to ensure the submission has been fuy received. Separate confirmation emais wi be sent for each nominee. ANTF advice: don t eave it unti the ast minute!
Outcomes and pubicity A nominees wi be informed of the outcome via emai on 31 Juy 2017. The emai wi aso be copied to the Vice-Chanceor or equivaent of the nominating institution. The announcement of NTFS winners is stricty embargoed unti Thursday 31 August 2017. A condition of the competition is that nominees do not share news of their success before this date in order to ensure maximum pubicity. Contravention of this requirement coud ead to the award being revoked. The names of the award winners wi be officiay announced on 31 August 2017 on the HEA s website www.heacademy.ac.uk/ntfs. ANTF advice: keep it under your hat!
Reviews and appeas After the outcome of the 2017 NTFS Awards is pubished, the HEA wi pubish an overview report of the 2017 cyce. This wi provide an anaysis of significant issues, trends and strengths identified in nominations, as we as a statistica data about nominees and winners, incuding equa opportunities and subject profies of nominations and winners. A nominees wi be informed once this is avaiabe. Some individua feedback wi be provided to nominees. The NTFS is a competition, the reviewer decision confirmed by the Pane is fina and no appeas can be made against their decision. The HEA has a compaints process to address issues of fair treatment in the administration of nominations but, as is common in UK HE, wi not reconsider the vaidity of the judgement made by reviewers.
Awards ceremony and briefing event The individua awards wi be presented at a ceebratory dinner, to which successfu nominees, their persona guest and the Vice-Chanceor or equivaent wi be invited. The new Nationa Teaching Feows wi aso be invited to a briefing. The briefing and the ceremony are to be hed on the same day in November 2017. ANTF advice: it s a fabuous event: if you win don t miss it at any cost and the briefing provides great networking opportunities
Checkist part one 1. The institution NTFS contact and nominee must read the guidance and use the HEA website to check for further advice. 2. The institution s NTFS contact must register with the HEA for a VLE Username and Password pease emai ntfsindividua@heacademy.ac.uk to register the institution s interest as soon as possibe 3. The nominee shoud downoad the nomination form and compete the reevant sections, incuding a signature. Eectronic signatures are not acceptabe. 4. The institution s Vice-Chanceor or equivaent must compete their section on the nomination form and sign the form. Eectronic signatures are not acceptabe. 5. The nominee shoud prepare their Caim using the guidance in Section 2.3 and the Award Criteria (section 2.4) as a guide to the evidence that shoud be demonstrated within the submission. Submissions wi be marked against the scheme detaied in Section 2.5 therefore this shoud be considered when making the Caim.
Checkist part two 6. The CV shoud be prepared by the nominee using the guidance in Section 2.3. The nominee shoud be mindfu of preparing a CV specific to this submission. 7. The Statement of Support shoud be prepared by the Vice-Chanceor or equivaent using the guidance in section 2.3 and 2.4 after they have read the Caim for Nationa Teaching Feowship from their nominee. Eectronic signatures are acceptabe within this document. 8. Formatting of a documents shoud be checked against the guidance given in Section 2.6. In 2017 a documents must be upoaded via the VLE in a Zip fie, this shoud foow the fie naming convention in Section 2.6. 9. The deadine for submission is 19 Apri 2017 12 noon. Documents to incude: Caim for Nationa Teaching Feowship to be submitted as a Word document; Statement of Support to be submitted as a Word document. Can be submitted as a PDF as we if signature is hard copy; Curricuum Vitae to be submitted as a Word document; Nomination form (with a sections compete but section 6 unsigned) - to be submitted as a Word document; Nomination form Section 6 signed by the Vice-Chanceor or equivaent to be submitted as a PDF document. Eectronic signatures wi not be accepted. Three 1 Mb or 300dpi (minimum) images of the nominee. At east one image shoud be portrait.
Note the HEA s emphasis here: Up to 55 individua awards wi be made in 2017; On gaining the award, each NTF has a roe to support the enhancement of earning and teaching in both the institution and the sector. Each winner wi be awarded prize money (to be determined by the funding partners). Each NTF wi be expected to use this money to disseminate their exceent practice by contributing to events, resources and by providing advice to coeagues. A NTFs wi be required to provide the HEA with indicative pans for their dissemination activity and be abe to demonstrate how their work has impacted on the sector by providing reguar reports to the HEA. A nominee shoud be a Feow (any category) of the HEA or be working towards Feowship.
Timescaes Cosing date 12 noon 19 Apri 2017 Nominees wi be informed of the outcomes in August 2017 The Nationa Teaching Feowships wi be awarded at a ceebratory event in November 2017. Those awarded the Nationa Teaching Feowships become members of the Association of Nationa Teaching Feows (ANTF). Further detais of the Scheme and of the Association of Nationa Teaching Feows are avaiabe at www.heacademy.ac.uk/ntfs. ANTF advice: If you become an NTF the ANTF is a great source of peer support and advice!
How to appy: the HEA say The process of submitting NTFS appications has changed sighty this year as we move to using an onine system for submissions. In order to appy institutions must nominate one NTFS contact or coordinator who wi inform the HEA team of their intention to send in an appication. You can do this by emaiing ntfsindividua@heacademy.ac.uk Once you have pre-registered a username and og in wi be sent to you Each institution can submit appications for up to three NTFs To compete the appication submission the NTFS contact or coordinate must upoad a required documents to the onine system in a Zip fie before the cosing date, 19 Apri 2017 Nominees wi be informed of the outcomes in August 2017 and the Nationa Teaching Feowships wi be awarded at a ceebratory event in November 2017.
Writing good appications The next sides are advice on writing good appications based on a historic report by the HEA on what makes a successfu appication and on the experiences of NTFs in writing their own appications and supporting others over the years.
2013 advice on characteristics of successfu nominations: Criterion 1 Successfu nominations were abe to ceary demonstrate engagement of students and a transformative impact on their earning, the evidence to support this criterion was wide ranging and outstanding, and it was cear that the nominees teaching was not ony informed by pedagogy but that they further shaped these theories with their own research. The key words most often used by reviewers when describing successfu nominees/nominations in this criterion were: innovative, creative, impact, transformative, and incusive.
Characteristics of successfu nominations (2013): Criterion two Reviewers commented on successfu nominees being abe to evidence how they have supported student earning and infuenced change not ony amongst coeagues within their institution but aso nationay and internationay, and even within their oca communities. The exampes given by successfu nominees were we evidenced and underpinned by schoarship. The initiatives they put in pace within their institutions were we-deveoped and evauated in terms of their impact and disseminated both nationay and internationay through shared practice, education/teaching and earning committees, and at conferences. The key words and phrases most often used by reviewers when commenting on nominees/nominations successfu in this criterion were: eadership, mentor, infuence, impact, and nationa and internationa dissemination of practice.
Characteristics of successfu nominations (2013): Criterion three Successfu nominees demonstrated a continuous deveopment of persona and professiona practice and ooked to the future as we as the past, using a wide range of evidence to underpin their caims. Moreover, these nominees aso inked this deveopment to their practice in the cassroom/ earning environment. It is difficut to identify any key words associated with this section of the nomination as each submission is very persona. However, reviewers did comment that successfu nominees were engaged in refective practice, demonstrated a breadth and depth of engagement with CPD and often took advantage of both forma and informa earning and deveopment
Unsuccessfu nominations (2013) often: were not expicit in terms of addressing the criteria; offered itte in the way of evidence to underpin caims of exceence; acked breadth or depth; faied to make cear how the nominee s practice was exceent and/or transformative; focused on research rather than teaching and earning; incuded detais of work or projects that were in the eary stages of impementation with itte detai of evauation or impact; faied to give equa weighting to each of the three criteria or combined eements of different criteria
What kinds of evidence are convincing? (ANTF advice) Anything that gives externa vaidation to your caim, so that it is supported rather than being mere assertion; This is ikey to invove raiding your paudits fie for verbatim quotes demonstrating your exceence; These can be from modue evauations, feedback forums, student comments, etters and emais; Aim to coect a range of quotes from current and past students at different eves, past and current coeagues, managers, empoyers who take your students on pacement, externa examiners etc. You don t need to provide fu detai of each originator of quotes: former 2 nd -year student previous inemanager, empoyer of our graduates etc is sufficient detai.
Coecting and using evidence (ANTF advice) Quaitative data can be reay usefu: it s hepfu to incude statements such as Over the past five years my student evauations have averaged 80+ who said I was good or exceent, and this is higher than average within my department ; You are not expected (or aowed) to provide supporting documentation but your own HEI is expected to assure the vaidity of your appication; You shoud aim to match your evidence with the three criteria, so you can add quotes and data to each section.
You need to demonstrate schoarship and commitment to refection (ANTF advice) Your appication shoud incude reference to a handfu of texts (books, journa artices etc) from which your educationa phiosophy and teaching approaches have derived; The appication, however, is a about you, so you need to use the first person singuar and refer to your achievements rather than your teams, ( Shy bairns get nowt! ); It s hepfu to incude exampes of where you ve changed your practices in the ight of experience or where your schoarship has guided you to change.
ANTF advice for peope thinking of appying in future years: There is no certainty the scheme wi run in 2018, athough it is anticipated it wi; If you are thinking of appying, it s worth thinking about buiding your profie further over the next year or so; Keep yoursef up-to-date by reguary scrutinising the HEA website for information.
How can your institution hep you? They coud: If you haven t aready got one, hep you find a mentor who is an NTF or vey famiiar with the scheme to guide your progress; Ceebrate your merited achievements by recognising you by awarding you an interna teaching award; Encourage you to share your good practice internay through your university annua teaching and earning conference, CPD seminars, on your PGCHE course for new ecturers, Teachmeet events or simiar; Offer support for you to disseminate your good practice beyond your institution, for exampe, enabing you to present at nationa or internationa conferences. ANTF woud ove to see you at our conference open to NTFs and non-ntfs in Leeds Beckett on 10 th May for exampe and the ca for papers coses at midnight on Friday 17th March 2017
ANTF advice: How can you hep yoursef? Why not: Draft an appication based on this year s guideines (whie being aware that the guidance may change year on year) and show it to your institutiona NTF eader or mentor for initia comment; Make sure you achieve feowship of the HEA, ideay at a eve commensurate with your roe (assessors might not be impressed to see someone very senior with ony an Associate Feowship); As the third criterion is often the one that is east we covered, use this next year very positivey to undertake penty of CPD and refect on it, not just what you did, but aso the outcomes and impact it had on your practice.
(ANTF advice): what some peope say: Being a Nationa Teaching Feow has changed my ife, my career, everything! I am certain my NTFS directy contributed to me getting my promotion and my professorship! I ve just oved the trave, the networking and the opportunities being an NTFS has given me! [The ceebratory dinner was] the best occasion (other than my wedding) in my ife! It s been fantastic to have my teaching recognised as much as my research!