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Importance of Academic Staff Developers to Student Achievement
- 1. How Can Professional Development of Academic Staff Enhance and Inspire Student Learning? Abel Nyamapfene CAPD University of West Scotland 6 January 2008
- 4. Students’ learning depends on their prior experiences of studying and the particular learning context (Prosser & Barrie, 2003): Hence: Teaching and learning contexts affects how students learn.
- 5. And the teacher is the most important learning context enabler in student achievement ( Carey, 2004 ): The teacher is directly responsible for setting learning context through activities such as curriculum design, teaching methods, assessment and feedback. All these affect student’s perception of context, which in turn affect student’s learning strategy and learning outcomes
- 8. Hence To Enhance Student Learning: The teacher learns and enables student learning The academic developer learns and enables teacher learning Key: Feedback process The student learns and also acquires learning skills
- 9. Thank You Question Time