In the midst of lockdown, having started a Masters Degree in Photography as a tentative step towards a different way of spending my life, I floated the idea that maybe one day, when it was done, I could lecture. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I know nothing about working in Higher Education other than what I’ve observed as the consumer of an HND thirty years ago and, over the last two years, an online Masters. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
When the MA was finally done I swore I was done with study. For a short while I wanted to retire to reading purely for pleasure, and the piles of books that covered my sofas gradually got put away. With post-its notes bursting from their pages like the errant hairs on Mr Twit’s unkempt beard, the books were placed in a nearly orderly fashion onto some new Ikea bookshelves bought specifically to deal with the fallout from my MA induced book addiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It didn’t take long though for the need to learn to return. The idea of lecturing being part of my post-Covid, post-redundancy, newly widowed, lone-parenting life that I was now trying to build, seemed to offer an exciting way to move forward. And so it is that I find myself at the beginning of a Post-Graduate Certificate In Higher Education. A training course designed to “Develop the expertise to support you within your role in both digital and face-to-face teaching and learning contexts.”<\/em> (Falmouth)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Looking back at my recent career I had enjoyed mentoring the teams I worked with, I liked communicating, I developed small training programmes for new Product Managers, and ran a course on Design Thinking, so the idea of getting enjoyment from teaching formally isn’t a huge leap from the parts of my ‘old work’ I liked the most. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Unlike my MA, where I started thinking I knew more than I did, I am starting this course clear in my mind that I know nothing and am starting from scratch. Over the next nine months I need to learn a lot through reading, but also through working. It is clear that practical work experience is as important as the theoretical study.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This blog is a record of that journey. The readings, thinkings, discoveries and disasters, partly for my own record, and partly because some of what I write here may turn into assessed work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It’s week 1 and a new journey has begun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In the midst of lockdown, having started a Masters Degree in Photography as a tentative step towards a different way of spending my life, I floated the idea that maybe one day, when it was done, I could lecture. I … Continue reading 710 – Back to the Books, starting a PGcHE<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learning.cranefield.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learning.cranefield.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learning.cranefield.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learning.cranefield.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learning.cranefield.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/learning.cranefield.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":179,"href":"https:\/\/learning.cranefield.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/179"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learning.cranefield.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learning.cranefield.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learning.cranefield.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learning.cranefield.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}