Jisc Change Agents' Network Conference 2024

We designed a summer scholarship (2023) to develop a Team Based Learning (TBL) approach to offer pastoral support for students in higher education.  At the core of this project is the philosophy of Students as Partners (SaP), that ‘values students as participants in knowledge construction, as producers of knowledge’ (Matthews et al, 2018, 24). We all participate and share skills accordingly, breaking up the traditional hierarchies of power and knowledge. We all have something to contribute to the project. 

We have been embracing Inclusive Teaching approaches, especially since 2022, reviewing the curriculum with our students.  We believe that students must be involved with the review and co-design of the curriculum, to promote agency and ownership with them as the beneficiaries: active promoters of change and enhancement. This should improve their engagement within their course, sharing their own expertise as students.

The poster will summarise the methods used to engage students and staff in the co-creation of the TBL pastoral support programme, outline the structure of the programme and report on the outcomes of the first year of delivery to the NTU undergraduate architecture course.