Is it more of a LEAP or a jump? A Student Partner’s Experience of LEAP
Jess Carroll is a Student Partner Intern (SPI) and has been part of our Online Blended Learning (OBL) cohort this year. Over the 2020/21 academic year this cohort of SPIs have worked in partnership with staff, undertaking activities such as reviewing academic content...
Now for something completely different: life as a Fellow of the ITL (when interrupted by a pandemic)
Jennie Blake is Head of Teaching and Learning Development in the University of Manchester Library and is a National Teaching Fellow. In this post, Jennie continues our Institute Fellows series by reflecting on the evolution of her project from initial Fellowship...
Given The Circumstances: Performing in a Pandemic
Andy Smith is a part-time lecturer in theatre practice within the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures. In this blog, he looks back on the past semester, thinks about some of the challenges it has brought to the teaching of his course in contemporary theatre making,...
5 things to read on… student partnership
Freddie Gent is an HE Admin Intern in Academic Development, with a particular interest in inclusion and the student voice. He works across a broad range of ITL projects and areas including the current Inclusive Learning Workshop series, supporting the development of...
Top tips on saving time and helping students get work done!
Jenni Rose (Senior Lecturer in Accounting and one of the University's Teachers of the Year 2020) shared a video in which she demonstrated some of the blended learning tools that had worked really well for her last year and detailed some of the ways in which she...
Institute Fellows 2020/21: John Owen
Continuing our Institute Fellows series is John Owen, a Lecturer in Technology Enhanced Learning in the in the i3HS Hub, School of Health Sciences, who was appointed as one of our inaugural Institute of Teaching and Learning Fellows in March 2020. In this post John...
An invitation to our Inclusive Education Workshops
Join us for a series of workshops run by leaders in the field of inclusive teaching practice. As teachers we have a commitment to equality of opportunity for our students, especially in facilitating their academic success. Our teaching should allow every student to...
Experience as a student partner intern: one year in the role review
Ayma Masood Khan is a Biomedical Sciences student and a Student Partner Intern (SPI), and has been part of our Online Blended Learning (OBL) cohort this year. Over the 2020/21 academic year this cohort of SPIs have worked in partnership with staff, undertaking...
A student’s perspective on online delivery
Poppy Eastwood is a Student Partner Intern (SPI) and has been part of our Online Blended Learning (OBL) cohort this year. Over the 2020/21 academic year this cohort of SPIs have worked in partnership with staff, undertaking activities such as reviewing academic...
Partnering with a Student Intern: an academic viewpoint
Lindsey Jones SFHEA is a Lecturer in Deaf Education within the School of Health Sciences. In this post she reflects on the benefits of working with two Student Partner Interns to effect manageable changes to her teaching practice while balancing a busy workload,...
TEA is a place where we can share practice and experience around teaching and learning with colleagues, students and the wider public – how we Teach, Explore, Apply
We’d really like to hear your responses to the stories we feature – if you want to respond, please email the ITL team at teaching.learning@manchester.ac.uk, or the University’s Teaching and Learning Online Network (TALON) on Yammer is a great place for you to carry on the discussion of any practice you find really interesting.
Contact Us
+44 (0) 161 306 6000
