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Student services: supporting students and teachers

Target audience

All new teaching staff from any discipline. Contract research staff teaching for the first time in the UK may attend these OR relevant Academic Staff Development Programme workshops (https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/osds/my-development/academic-teaching-staff/asdp/).

Course pre-work

There are 4 compulsory courses that new postgraduate teachers must complete before they are allowed to begin teaching. Three of these are synchronous ("live") workshops (via Teams or in-person); the fourth is an asynchronous, online course which you complete in your own time. 1) Teaching at St Andrews: an introduction (online and in-person options) 2) Assessment and academic misconduct: an introduction (online and in-person options) 3) Student Services: supporting students and teachers (online and in-person options) 4) Diversity in the Workplace (http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/hr/edi/training/) - (online self-study)

Course mapped to

Vitae's Researcher Development Framework domains: B3 (Professional and career development), C1 (Professional conduct), D1 (Working with others), D3 (Engagement and impact)

Follow on course

"Teaching at St Andrews: an introduction" and "Assessment and Academic Misconduct: an introduction" and "Diversity in the Workplace"

Course information

IMPORTANT (for PGRs): If you have not already done so, please register on the Essential courses for PGRs who teach programme to book and track your completion status. Doing this will also automatically give your School access to view your completion status. 

This live session will take place in Old Union Diner, Map here: University of St Andrews - Scotland's first university, founded 1413.

Postgraduate and other part-time tutors and demonstrators play a crucial role in the support of student learning at St Andrews. The University places great value on the potential for enhanced learning that small group teaching provides. The University therefore requires that all part-time teachers receive appropriate development for the role, so that both teachers and taught will get the most out of their time together.

This session will outline the wide range of support provided by Students Services, including legal requirements to support disabled students under the Equality Act, and explore some of the challenging situations you might experience and how to respond.

What previous participants have said about this course:

• "This is a great class that basically teaches you everything you need to know about student services and dealing with distressed individuals within the University within only an hour! And without feeling overwhelming"
• "I found the very brief discussions about specific scenarios to be very helpful in clarifying the guidance."
• "I got a nice overview of university help services and ways I can help any students I teach."
• "It was structured in such way that I was not intimidated, and actually quite engaged. The course covered a lot of ground without feeling like it caused information overload."
• "Really useful information, and reassuring that there are people to ask for help with difficult situations."

You must also complete the following if you are a postgraduate teacher:

• Teaching at St Andrews: an introduction workshop (either cross-Faculty or Faculty-specific)
• Assessment and Academic Misconduct workshop (either cross-Faculty or Faculty-specific)
• Online course Diverity in the Workplace

These workshops are not assessed or accredited, but are compulsory for any postgraduate who wishes to do any form of teaching at St Andrews.

These workshops are repeated before the start of each semester. We strongly recommend that participants attend just before the semester in which they will be teaching.

Aims and objectives

By the end of this workshop you should be able to:

• Describe the support offered by Student Services to students
• Describe the support offered by Student Services to teachers
• Explain the process for supporting students with disabilities

Tutors

Mr Scott Francis-McConnachie

Venue

Old Union Diner, Butts Wynd

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Course provider

IELLI
Email: ielli@st-andrews.ac.uk