Welcome to TASH!
Introductory project briefing
July 17th, 2008
What issues does TASH address?
• A widely-perceived need for students to enhance their
academic skills;
• range of student backgrounds;
• diverse student and institutional expectations;
• known availability of good resources;
• variable student engagement;
• striking a balance between generic and subject-specific
skills;
• avoiding the deficit and hypodermic models.
Issues and solutions thus far
• Student engagement - horses
to water
• Student participation in design
process
• Tutor engagement - more
horses, more water
• Embedding resource in
institutional processes
• Generic and subject-specific
resources and skills
• "Seven sk/hills" framework,
and "disciplinary examplars"
• Covering a range of
perspectives and approaches
to learning - is TASH trying to
do too much?
• Open-ended structure creating a framework into
which other developments can
fit - continuing evolution of the
project
The TASH project core team
• Chris Stokes - Medicine
• Kath Linehan - Pure Sciences
• Linda Gray and friends - Engineering
• Tim Herrick - Arts
• Willy Kitchen - Social Sciences
• Louise Woodcock - keeping a hand on the purse-strings
• Steve Collier - doing the technicals
Then a whole host of colleagues (including you?) contributing specific
resources, ideas, contacts, etc....
Photo by maxgiani
Any questions?
Ways of keeping in touch
• Future meetings - next one Tuesday16th September
• Blog and LeTS pages:
http://tashdiary.blogspot.com/
http://www.shef.ac.uk/lets/projects/genericskills.html
• Email or personal contact:
t.herrick@shef.ac.uk
w.kitchen@shef.ac.uk
Welcome to TASH!
Second project meeting
July 17th, 2008
What we'll be doing this afternoon
• 14.00-14.30: The "seven sk/hills" framework, and where
resources might fit
• 14.30-15.15: Small group work on skills resources and
pedagogies
• 15.15-15.45: Coffee and sharing results from the small group
work
• 15.45-16.20: Whole group discussion on the skills and
resources we've identified
• 16.20-16.30: Closing remarks - next steps.
(TH and WK will remain after this point for individual
discussions)
Seven sk/hills framework
• academic literacy
• personal and interpersonal skills
• problem solving and
data handling
• analytical skills
• written
communication
• oral and other
communication
• reflective learning
Developing the skills framework
• With your square post-its, add specific skills that you think
are included within the seven skills;
• With your rectangular post-its, add University of Sheffield
resources that support student development of these skills;
• Use whiteboard markers to comment on the categories
and the framework itself - what does it leave out?
Whole group discussion
• What works? What doesn't work?
• What gaps in resources have we identified?
• What gaps in our "seven skills" model have we identified?
• What are the issues for TASH that have emerged? In
particular, how will we be able to maintain a necessarily light
generic core, whilst catering for sufficient specific diversity?
What next?
• One volunteer per skills set to blog discussions
and huddleboard image;
• Volunteers to write tutor-facing pages/guides; proforma template to follow by end of July; drafts by
end of August; buy-out/-in time available;
• Ongoing review by core team - watch blog, generic
skills website, and email inbox ... and just get in
touch if you want to talk (including now).
Ways of keeping in touch
• Future meetings - next one Tuesday 16th September
• Blog and LeTS pages:
http://tashdiary.blogspot.com/
http://www.shef.ac.uk/lets/projects/genericskills.html
• Email or personal contact:
t.herrick@shef.ac.uk
w.kitchen@shef.ac.uk