Description
This workshop is one of the Developing Your Teaching workshops,
provision from the Student Education Development Team.
This course will take place on campus in person.
This interactive workshop is designed for those working outside
healthcare and associated disciplines who want to explore ways in which
reflection-based, professional development-focused formative and
summative assessments can be incorporated into their programme from year
one to develop students’ professional literacy skills.
What is professional literacy? Professional literacy is one of
the three literacies within the University’s overarching Capabilities
Framework: Academic, Digital, Professional. Though it is often
associated with ‘employability’, embedding professional literacy within
the curriculum supports students with their career readiness, work ready
skills, and making informed decisions about future careers and other
aspirations beyond university.
Through activities and structured discussions, participants will explore
how subject-specific skills and knowledge can be embedded within real-
world activities, including opportunities that enable students to make
connections about how they can apply their learning in a post-graduation
setting. I will share how a PGCAP Action Research module revealed
students’ learning was hidden beneath various home and work
responsibilities and needed to be ‘resurfaced’ for assessment tasks.
This led to me designing a workbook for final year students as they
prepared for an assessed mock interview in which they articulated how
Child and Family Studies degree content enhanced their professional
practice, including development of their communications skills and
specific examples demonstrating the impact of theoretical knowledge on
children’s outcomes.
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