AUA Membership Accreditation Scheme Overview
•Als PPTX, PDF herunterladen•
1 gefällt mir•396 views
The document describes the AUA's Membership Accreditation Scheme, which recognizes members' commitment to ongoing professional development. It outlines the scheme's requirements, including completing 25-30 hours of CPD over 2-3 years, writing a 750-1500 word reflective statement relating CPD to professional behaviors, and providing evidence of a relevant qualification or professional capability. Members can plan and record their CPD and reflections using the association's online tools. The scheme aims to support members in continuously developing skills and knowledge to further their careers in higher education administration.
Empfohlen
Empfohlen
Weitere ähnliche Inhalte
Ähnlich wie AUA Membership Accreditation Scheme Overview
Ähnlich wie AUA Membership Accreditation Scheme Overview (20)
Mehr von Association of University Administrators
Mehr von Association of University Administrators (20)
Kürzlich hochgeladen
Kürzlich hochgeladen (20)
AUA Membership Accreditation Scheme Overview
- 1. Membership Accreditation Scheme Laura Ashcroft Project Officer: Membership & Networks, AUA www.aua.ac.uk inspiring professional higher education
- 2. What’s coming up • • • • What is the scheme? CPD Professional reflection Professional knowledge and capability www.aua.ac.uk inspiring professional higher education
- 3. What is the scheme? • The AUA formally recognises the commitment you make to your own ongoing professional development, as well as that of others, through the Membership Accreditation Scheme www.aua.ac.uk inspiring professional higher education
- 4. The CPD Framework www.aua.ac.uk inspiring professional higher education
- 6. CPD CPD requirements Accredited Member • 25 hours of CPD over the previous two years www.aua.ac.uk Fellow • 30 hours of substantial and enhanced CPD over the previous three years inspiring professional higher education
- 7. CPD CPD Essentials • Why undertake CPD? • How should I approach CPD? - Reflect - Act - Impact www.aua.ac.uk inspiring professional higher education
- 8. CPD CPD Cycle Stage 1 Assess organisational need Stage 2 Stage 8 Identify Individual CPD needs Apply learning Stage 3 Stage 7 Identify learning aims & opportunities Review and evaluate learning Stage 6 Stage 4 Record activities & outcomes Plan development activities Stage 5 Undertake activities www.aua.ac.uk inspiring professional higher education
- 9. CPD CPD – Top Tips • You are the best judge of what CPD to do • You are the best judge of how much • Structured conferences are one method of CPD – but not the only method • Research and reading are effective • Networking and focussed discussion qualifies www.aua.ac.uk inspiring professional higher education
- 10. CPD Planning your CPD • AUA has an ePD, an online personal development log, on our members’ website • PDP can be used to plan your personal development for the future • Members.aua.ac.uk >> My interests >> My PDP >> Add new PDP www.aua.ac.uk inspiring professional higher education
- 11. CPD Recording your CPD • CPD activity diary can be used to log your CPD activities • Members.aua.ac.uk >> My interests >> My PDR >> CPD activity diary >> Add new CPD activity www.aua.ac.uk inspiring professional higher education
- 12. Reflection Reflection requirements Accredited Member • 750 – 1000 word statement demonstrating how your CPD relates to at least 3 of the 9 professional behaviours of the CPD Framework www.aua.ac.uk Fellow • 1000 – 1500 word statement demonstrating how your CPD relates to all 9 professional behaviours of the CPD Framework, the impact of this on others and the sector, and how you have helped others inspiring professional higher education
- 13. Reflection Reflective Practice • What’s happened so far – reflection and learning from our past experience • What will or could happen – projecting ahead, planning and creating new horizons www.aua.ac.uk inspiring professional higher education
- 14. Reflection You and the HE Environment • • • • • Arrival in HE - how History 1 – time spent History 2 – number of roles History 3 – types of roles Ambitions - aspirations www.aua.ac.uk inspiring professional higher education
- 15. Reflection SWAIN • • • • • S – Strengths W – Weaknesses A – Aspirations I – Inhibitors/Interests N – Needs www.aua.ac.uk inspiring professional higher education
- 16. Reflection The Wheel Of Fortune Workplace Opportunities Career and Personal Development ©Hallas/Ryan www.aua.ac.uk inspiring professional higher education
- 17. Reflection The Wheel Of Fortune Workplace Opportunities Career and Personal Development External Opportunities ©Hallas/Ryan www.aua.ac.uk inspiring professional higher education
- 18. Reflection The Wheel Of Fortune Workplace Opportunities Career and Personal Development Opportunities Leading to Awards & Qualifications External Opportunities ©Hallas/Ryan www.aua.ac.uk inspiring professional higher education
- 19. Reflection The Wheel Of Fortune On-going Opportunities Workplace Opportunities Career and Personal Development Opportunities Leading to Awards & Qualifications External Opportunities ©Hallas/Ryan www.aua.ac.uk inspiring professional higher education
- 20. Reflection The Wheel Of Fortune On-going Opportunities Workplace Opportunities Career and Personal Development Opportunities Leading to Awards & Qualifications External Opportunities ©Hallas/Ryan www.aua.ac.uk inspiring professional higher education
- 21. Reflection Wheel of Fortune - Quiz • 65 or more • 45-60 • 25-40 • 20 or less [©Hallas/Ryan] www.aua.ac.uk inspiring professional higher education
- 22. Reflection How to use the online PDR • PDR can be used to record your reflection on your CPD activities • Members.aua.ac.uk >> My interests >> My PDR www.aua.ac.uk inspiring professional higher education
- 23. Capability Capability requirements Accredited Member Fellow • Demonstrable evidence that you have an understanding of underlying principles and theories associated with your role/ area of study, and the ability to present, evaluate and interpret information www.aua.ac.uk inspiring professional higher education
- 24. Capability Professional capability • Level 4 qualification or higher – Certificate of Higher Education – Bachelors Degree – Postgraduate certificate • Examples of this practice • Piece of work www.aua.ac.uk inspiring professional higher education
- 25. To sum up... • CPD – What it is, how you can plan your CPD, how you can record it • Reflection – Why we reflect, shown you how you can reflect, tools, how you can record it • Knowledge and Capability www.aua.ac.uk inspiring professional higher education
- 26. Completing the application • services.aua.ac.uk/accreditation • 5 sections – Personal information – CPD Diary – Professional reflection – Professional knowledge and capability – References www.aua.ac.uk inspiring professional higher education
- 27. Questions? • More information on the criteria and the guidance can be found on our website: www.aua.ac.uk/static-17-membershipaccreditation.html • Contact laura.ashcroft@aua.ac.uk www.aua.ac.uk inspiring professional higher education
- 28. More information at www.aua.ac.uk Email: aua@aua.ac.uk Call: 0161 275 2063 Association of University Administrators (AUA) @The_AUA www.aua.ac.uk inspiring professional higher education
Hinweis der Redaktion
- Make sure websites are open:Members.aua.ac.ukServices.aua.ac.uk/accreditationAua.ac.uk – accreditation pagesWelcome, introduction. 1 minPlease feel free to ask questions throughout.
- 2 minsWe’re going to talk a little bit about what the Accreditation scheme is, how you can apply, the requirements and how to use the ePD – the online professional development log for AUA members. We’ll also talk about CPD, professional reflection, capability – which are the three areas that make up the accreditation scheme.We’re going to do a couple of reflective activities to get you started, and give you some tools to help you achieve Accredited Member or Fellow.
- 1 minThe AUA is committed to helping you succeed in your career. Our Membership Accreditation Scheme supports your career by recognising that you are dedicated to improving yourself and others.
- 2 minsOur Membership Accreditation Scheme is supported by our CPD Framework. Our CPD Framework is a set of professional behaviours which help you devise a plan for how you'd like to develop. It helps you decipher your strengths and weaknesses, giving you an idea of the areas you can focus on for the future. Based on behaviours rather than skills or competencies you can use it throughout your career, no matter what stage you're at or field you're in.
- 3 minsThis is our accreditation scheme. We have member, leading onto Accredited Member and then onto Fellow. The main focus for both Acc Mem and Fellow is on three key areas - CPD, professional reflection and professional knowledge and capability. Which level is right for you?Member - Anyone working within, or having an interest in, higher education administration and management can join the AUA as a member. There aren’t any entry requirements for Member, an interest and enthusiasm is enough!Accredited member - As you progress in your career, you’ll start to develop your skills and knowledge. Accredited Member status recognises this development and the effect this has had on how you work.Fellow - As you develop even further in your career you’ll notice that you spend more time helping others - through training, mentoring, providing information, and so on. You’ll also realise that the impact of your own development reaches further. Fellowship of the AUA recognises how you have helped others develop their skills and knowledge, and how your own development has influenced your colleagues.
- 1 min
- 8 mins **Activity – 3 mins (write on flipchart)What are the types of CPD – continuing professional developmentAttend a training course – in house – the AUA (what are we doing right now?!)Get a mentor Be a mentor Networking – focused discussionJob shadowing Talking to someone Produce resourcesDeliver a training course Researcha topicRead an article Read resources**Activity – 2 minsWhy should you undertake CPD?To get to where you want to beTo learn – personal interestFurther your careerHow should I approach CPD?Reflect – why should I reflect? Well its the starting point of CPD. You need to know what you need to do How should I reflect? Well there are formal processes for reflecting. There are tools on the CPD framework website to help you work through some structured reflection. or it could be just a thought, or a realisation. It could be a reflection diary, where you reflect on an incident and what went well and what you can change. It’s whatever you feel comfortable doing, you can try a few different ways of reflecting and figure our what works well for you.You can think about where you are right now, where you would like to be in say a year, or 2 years, or 5 years. And it could be on a personal level or a professional level. I would like to find out more about [a topic] because it interests me. Or I would like to find out more about quality because I think I might like to move into that area or work. This will help you identify what you need to do to get there...Act – find out about training courses, mentoring opportunities, qualifications, speak to colleagues, read articles, books. And then actually undertake that. Attend the training course, speak to that person, find a mentorImpact – The impact is the key thing. You’ve done the CPD but its the so what afterwards... What difference is this going to make. what does this mean? Is this going to change how you do something? How you act?
- 2 mins
- 1 min
- 5 minsOur good way of structuring your CPD is to use our online ePD system. The good thing about this is that you can record all your aspirations in here. So you may have a PDP at work, you might not, but that relates simply to your role, whereas this may be things you want to do beyond your role at work, but still related to work (e.g. Learn more about a different area), it can be personal things (e.g. get a qualification), or non work related personal things, maybe in your life, for example buy a new house. And the other good thing is that it goes with you wherever you are so if you move role or HEI – because your membership is personal and follows you – so does this. GO TO MEMBERS AREATo access the PDP, login to the members area of our website members.aua.ac.uk. If you can’t remember your password you can click the forgotten password button. Once logged in, if you have set up a PDP or PDR it’ll be on your homepage. If not, you can find it under My interests and there’s My PDPTo start your PDP, just click on the Add new PDP button. This will set you up a new PDP. As you can see it’s done by year so you can start this whenever you want and it’ll take it forward for a year from when you set it up. Then you can start to work your way down the form. *cover this properly*Going back to the CPD cycle – there are tools here to start on you on the CPD cycle journey. for assessing your needs (1), identifying CPD needs (2), identifying your aims and opportunities (3&4), and planning your development opportunities (5).We’re going to do a couple of different exercises shortly which can help you get started. These tools here are also really useful structured tools to develop an overall plan.
- 6/7 minsGO TO MEMBERS AREAOpen up PDR, the first tab is the PDR, we’ll come back to this later. The second tab is the CPD activity diary. Now here we can log whenever you want to, any activities that you may have undertaken that could be counted as CPD. So don’t forget as Christopher mentioned earlier there are many different ways you can accumulate CPD, such as reading an article, writing an article, doing a presentation, mentoring a colleague. It’s not just about attending an event like this one. In fact the more different kinds of COD you can do, the more rounded you’ll become as a practitioner. So you can pick the type of activity it is from the list. These are just general areas and you can use the description to put more information in. You can insert your aim, which relates to: Professional practice Skills and Behaviours Professional values and ethical practice Personal needsThen we’re going to insert the activityAnd then we’ll put in a full description hereThen the date, time, total number of hours, qualifying hours. (e.g. This Conference is from 9 – 5 but only the time your in sessions counts as qualifying hours).Then you can attach anything relating to the activity. For example if you wrote or read an article you may want to attached it here. Which is useful as you may want to come back to it and refer to it a later date, you know it will always be here.
- 3 minsAs you can see both categories ask you to relate your professional development to the behaviours of the CPD Framework. In the case of Acc Mem this is 3, and the case of Fellow it is all 9. Our CPD framework supports you as HE professional services staff in your career development. Find lots of tools on the CPD framework minisite. The reflection for the two different categories have a different focus. Accredited Member, as the first step in the scheme, asks you to think about your own professional development. The next step is to think about the professional development of others as well as yourself. Have you helped othes with their CPD? Has your CPD benefited others? Your colleagues, and the sector. And that’s shown in the requirements for Fellow.This is arguably the most important requirement of our Accreditation Scheme.
- 2 minsWe’re going to use some tools to help you start this process off, and I’m also going to show you where you can find some other tools to help you reflect after you’ve undertaken an activity. The thing I find with reflecting, it’s really about finding your own style. Some people like to have structure to their reflection. I’m not a natural reflector. I find it really difficult to reflect – so I use the tools to help me reflect, which gives me some specific points to base it on. Some people like to have a set of prompt questions – what happened, what went well, what could you do better, what did you learn. Some people keep a reflection diary where they write things down after they’ve happened. Some people like to reflect straight away, some people at a later point. Our ePD tool lets you do any of these things. There are some tools for structured reflection and prompt questions to help get you focus your reflection. You can update it whenever you want to, as often as you want to.
- **Activity – 10 mins (give out handouts)So we’re going to do a little bit of reflection now to help you get started. To get started we need to look back first to see how our path has been shaped so far. So I’d like you to write down the following:First – your arrival in HE – how did you end up being in HE? (30 secs)History 1 – time spent in HE (1 min)History 2 – number of roles you’ve had (1 min)History 3 – types of roles of you’ve had (so it might be you worked in quality, then you moved to research, then you moved to general administration) Ambitions – aspirations for the future (3 min)Share (3 mins) – Anecdotally we know that people sort of end up in HE accidentally it’s not really a chosen career path. It might be after they start in HE. Does anyone want to share their story? (pick on a table, share your story)History 1 - Lets work out who’s been in HE longest. A show of hands who’s been in HE a year or less. 2-5 years. 5-7 years. 7-10 years. 10-15 years. 15-20 years. Longer than 20 years. History 2 – number of roles – who has just had one role? Two? Etc, count up. History 3 – types of roles – count upAmbitions / aspirations – does anyone want to tell us their aspirations?
- 8 minsPowerful though SWOT can be, often it is only used as a rough and ready capture tool rather than being used for deeper reflection of the aspirations, interests and needs of individuals, teams or organisations. SWAIN (Strengths, Weaknesses, Aspirations, Inhibitors/Interests, Needs) in contrast prompts reflection on the behavioural and attitudinal influences which operate on individuals, teams or organisations, and encourages analysis of the tools, resources or development that might be needed to achieve aspirations.**Activity – 7/8 minsHand out activity, ask them to complete for 7/8 minutes
- 1 minWorkplace OpportunitiesCan anyone tell me about the types of opportunities they have in their workplace? In-house training programmesBriefing materials/bulletinsPublicationsWebsites
- 1 minExternal OpportunitiesAnyone got any ideas?WorkshopsSeminarsShort coursesConferencesReading external materials – newslink, perspectives
- 30secsOpportunities Leading to Awards & QualificationsProfessional ProgrammesGeneral Management ProgrammesSpecialist Programmes
- 30 secsOngoing Opportunities Personal Development PlansLearning LogsReflection and Change
- 1minThis forms a continuous, ongoing cycle. Once you’ve gone round the wheel and taken advantage of as many opportunities as you can, you can go back to the start and revisit any of these points on the cycle
- **Activity – 5 minsGive out handoutsGo through each oneGive out scoresAsk people to total upShow of hands for each groupOn the back of this sheet is another template, which I don't think we’ll have time for today. But you can complete it in your own time. It combines the SWAIN and wheel of fortune. Identify quarters of the wheel of fortune where SWAIN suggests you do more and use that to come up with four specific action points to start your PDP off.
- 5 minsGO TO MEMBERS AREASo earlier we logged our CPD activities in our activity diary. Now we can reflect on these activities. The exercises we’ve done so far are refelcting tools to help you start your journey. They can be used to plan your CPD for the future. The online PDR gives you some tools to help relfect once you’ve completed each activity. *focus on each prompt area* What we learnt from them, what was positive and we can use again, what we can use for the future, how we can change our practice, etc. The reflection goes back to the four areas that we used earlier to record our CPD activity. Again, we can input our reflective practice into this, based on the specific activity. You may find that you only relate it to one, or you may find that, as your reflecting on it, you can relate it to all of these. Once you’ve inputted your reflection, you can click save, and it’s there for you to go back and see and use at any time. These questions can also be used for other situations. You may have identified that you’d like to work on a specific area. It can be formal- for example, presenting a workshop or informal - having a difficult conversation. Once that activity or event has happened then you can use these question to relfect on what happened, how it made you feel, what you did well and what you would change.
- 1 minProfessional knowledge and capability asks you to demonstrate that you have an understanding of underlying principles and theories related to your area of work or study, and the ability to present, evaluate and interpret information. Although this may sound a little complicated, you will use these skills in most of your every day work and demonstrating them can take many simple forms.
- 1 minLevel 4 qualification. About 60% of HE staff eligible for AUA membership have a degree. Don’t worry if you don’t have any of these qualifications, this isn't meant to be a barrier and I don’t want his specific requirement to ever put anyone off applying for Acc Mem or Fellow. Instead you can submit a statement of examples of how you have achieved this practice, or here might be a report or a piece of work that you have written that demonstrates these examples.
- 2 mins
- 3 minsYou can also submit your application using the website link above. And the process is entirely online. So we’ve been through the three main areas of what makes up the content of the application. There are two other areas – much easier.Go to application formThese are personal information – name, email address, membership number. And references. For Acc Mem – 1 reference. For fellow – 2 referencesYour referee should be able to verify that you have undertaken, used and benefited from the CPD in your application. Your referee could be someone like a line manager, mentor or close colleague. Separate guidance will be given to all referees to assist them in completing a reference.
- 1 min