Upcoming event: The inner chimp 2 – taming the inner chimp: being compassionate and ‘awareful’
About the session
Within the context of promoting and protecting student wellbeing and particularly resilience, this short interactive skills workshop will introduce the key features of the caring component of human behaviour (Gilbert 2018). Skills that inject ‘awareful’ compassion-focused micro teaching skills into every day group learning situations for the classroom or tutorial will be unpacked.
Facilitator
Sara Morris-Docker, Department of Nursing and Midwifery and LEAD Associate – HWB
Themes
- assessment and feedback
- student support
Who is it for?
The session will be useful for academic advisors, module teams and Student Support officers in their interactions with, and support of students who are meeting the emotional challenge of group learning and assessment activities. The session will explain and encourage a discussion and application of some strengths-based micro skills for teaching and caring for students.
Key Learning Points
The model presented offers a simple, evidence based, highly accessible and easy to understand approach to dealing with challenging behaviours in the classroom. It is particularly useful for group learning situations and one to one meeting management as well as higher stress situation. Based on the powerful human strength of compassion, this session can open the door to beginning to understanding our human responses to every day, as well as one-off, irritations, frustrations and challenges.
Your development
To support your academic professional development, this session is mapped to the UKPSF and the NSS. You may find it useful to record your participation and use it as evidence for your application for recognition (HEA Fellowship or Promotion) or as evidence of ‘Remaining in Good Standing’ in your annual appraisal.
| UK Professional Standards Framework | A3 Assess and give feedback to learners
A5 Develop effective learning environments and approaches to student support and guidance V2 Promote participation in higher education and equality of opportunity for learners |
| National Student Survey | 9 Marking and assessment have been fair
11 I have received helpful comments on my work 13 I have received sufficient advice and guidance in relation to my course |
Workshop dates/times:
| Tuesday 11th June | 13:00 – 14:30 | City: Charles Street 12.3.17 |
| Friday 14th June | 13:00 – 14:30 | Collegiate: HOTC HC.0.15 |
| Monday 17th June | 11:00 – 12:30 | City: Charles Street 12.3.16 |
| Thursday 20th June | 15:00 – 16:30 | Collegiate: HOTC HC.0.14 |
This is the follow-up to the 1st workshop ‘dealing with stress of assessment: the inner chimp – a very human response to adverse situations’ – its not essential for you to have attended the 1st workshop however, so that we can accommodate the delivery of chimp 2, please let us know when you book your place and give us your preferred date.
When your email has been processed and your place has been allocated, you will be sent a Meeting Request in Outlook. Please ‘Accept’ this request as soon as possible and keep us informed if your plans change – where sessions reach full capacity we operate a waiting list and your place can be given to someone else.