Recognition
The Leadership in Education Awards Programme (LEAP) supports you in documenting and evidencing your teaching excellence, and is an opportunity for you to receive a formal, national qualification for your teaching.
The programme is accredited by the Higher Education Academy (HEA) and can award Associate, Fellowship, Senior and Principal HEA Fellowships.
If you join LEAP you'll be assigned a mentor and a peer support group and will also have access to a range of online resources and optional support workshops.
For further information on LEAP, including how to apply, please visit the Leadership in Education Awards Programme (LEAP) page.
SoSS and the UK Professional Standards Framework
SoSS's program of GTA training has been designed bearing in mind the UK Professional Standards Framework (UK PSF) for Teaching and Supporting Learning. The UK PSF has produced a flexible framework which uses a descriptor-based approach to set professional standards. The claimed aims of the standards framework are:
- an enabling mechanism to support the professional development of staff engaged in
supporting learning - a means by which professional approaches to supporting student learning can be fostered
through creativity, innovation and continuous development - a means of demonstrating to students and other stakeholders the professionalism that staff
bring to the support of the student learning experience - a means to support consistency and quality of the student learning experience.
We hope after training and development that our GTAs will able to demonstrate the application of these standards, six areas of activity, and core knowledge and professional values.