Recognising and Rewarding Teaching Excellence: an argument for authentic metrics

Authors

  • Sally Brown Independent consultant

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21100/compass.v10i2.482

Keywords:

TEF, excellence, metrics, National Teaching Fellowships

Abstract

Recognising and rewarding excellent teaching as the UK TEF plans to do is valuable, but it is imperative that the metrics are authentic. This opinion piece by the Chair of the UK Association of National Teaching Fellows argues for meaningful measures that draw on extant means of acknowledging and celebrating outstanding teachers

Author Biography

Sally Brown, Independent consultant

Sally Brown enjoys life as an Independent Consultant and Emerita Professor at Leeds Beckett University. She is also Visiting Professor at the University of Plymouth, the University of South Wales and at Liverpool John Moores. She is a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, is a Staff and Educational Development Association Senior Fellow and a UK National Teaching Fellow. 

References

Dearing, R. (1997) Higher Education in the learning society. The Dearing Report. The National Committee of Enquiry into Higher Education.

HEA. (2012) UK Professional Standards Framework. Available at: http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/professional-recognition (Accessed: 7 April 2017).

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Published

05/15/2017

Issue

Vol. 10 No. 2 (2017): Compass: Journal of Learning and Teaching

Section

Opinion Pieces

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