Modelling professional practice for students on a work placement
January 26, 2010
Video >> Learning set meeting Alison: “So your portfolio, in some ways, will be very different, Jenny, to Jo’s, because you’ve had a much more observation and insight experience, lots of visits, learning to appreciate what factors affect the patient with neurological problems in the community, and that’s what I would expect to see in …
Graduate qualities: transferable skills and intercultural competence
November 24, 2009
Video >> David Clarke: “I think the thing that the best university students do in my view and what marks them out, is that they ask themselves the question continuously, What is it I need to know and how can I find it out? rather than I wonder what the teacher is going to tell me …
Perceptions of PhD students and supervisors of the academic and transferable skills training at the University of Nottingham
September 30, 2009
Sara Goodacre, Matthew Jones and Rumiana Ray: “The last decade has seen the initialisation and development of specific and generic skills training for PhD students at universities. Whilst the purpose of subject-specific skills training is to increase and validate the practical and professional competency of students in order to successfully complete their PhD programme, generic …
National subject specifications and the international context
Video >> Mike Clifford, Faculty of Engineering: “We’ve always taught sort of UK spec on everything from health and safety through to patent law through to sort of work place ethics. And a few years ago, I sort of looked around me and thought actually how relevant is some of the material we’re teaching? You …
Involving qualified professionals in lab-based practicals
August 2, 2009
Video >> Video playing: “The equipment you will need is clippers, swabs, antisceptic scrub and surgical spirit, methods of restraining the horse, clean sterile bottles of local anaesthetic, sterile needles, and sterile syringes. Nerve blocks involve the injection of local anaesthetics…” Sarah: “We have some people who volunteer to come along and some people that we …
Learning communication skills from groupwork in practical sessions
Video >> Video playing: “You should always clip before performing an ultrasound examination. Air and dirt trapped within the animal’s coat will interfere with the transmission of ultrasound and prevent you obtaining diagnostic images.” Sarah: “They work in groups through quite a lot of the practicals so a number of the skills that they have …
Storytelling and role play in developing communication skills
April 14, 2008
Video >> Interviewer: “I know it’s something that you’ve been interested in for a number of years is the role of storytelling in teaching. Could I ask you to say a few words about that?” Paul: “Yeah, a few years ago now I wrote a book, with my wife Rhiannon, Storytelling in Therapy, which was …
Purposes of student-led seminars: development of transferable skills
June 26, 2007
Video >> Kate: “Hi Nick, thanks very much for coming over from the School of History.” Nick Thomas, History: “That’s OK.” Kate: “I wanted to ask you about seminars and seminar teaching. What is it you actually want your students to gain from participating in seminars?” Nick: “A number of different skills. We look to …
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