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Explore benefits and motivations for students in projects, supervisor roles, feedback methods, and more. Develop skills in project supervision through case studies and interactive workshops.
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Supporting Taught Programmes – Dissertations & Projects Dr Marita Grimwood
In their shoes… Thinking back to your own experiences as UG or PGT project students, what were the benefits and motivations for you?
What motivates students? • Relevance and realism • Career orientation • Ownership, choice and responsibility • Assessment and feedback • Peer pressure and team working • Presenting work to others • An interested and enthusiastic teacher
Case study • Read the case study and, as a small group, tease out the issues in project supervision raised by it. • Using your thoughts, prepare a poster with bullet points showing: • What students have a right to expect of supervision • Ways in which you could contribute to this
Giving Feedback • Consider environment and timing • Express standards clearly • Communicate your views about progress clearly in relation to standards • Using examples is helpful • Providing written and verbal feedback helps • Be encouraging but honest • Check understanding and views
Supervisor’s Roles • Director • Facilitator • Advisor • Teacher • Guide • Critic • ?
RolesBrown, Smallwood & Bragan-Turner, 1996 • Freedom-giver • Encourages and supports students in making decisions • Critical friend • Gives encouragement and advice, shows interest • Friend • Extends concern to non-academic aspects • Manager • Develops plans, checks & records progress
Further support The Staff Development Unit runs further workshops on supervision. If you are a researcher with more substantial supervisory responsibilities and would like to know more, please contact Rosalind.Beaumont@ncl.ac.uk