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About LTT

Leading Teaching Teams (LTT) is a two-day residential programme, designed to develop participants’ skills, capabilities and beliefs as leaders of teaching teams.

Participant Profile

You will be an established lecturer, new lecturer or academic teacher with responsibility for leading academic programmes and modules. Researchers or academics who would like to move into a teaching role will also find this programme both suitable and beneficial.

Focus

LTT will enable you to discover how to build, lead motivate and support any team, specifically within an applied context of academic teaching. It will enhance your capabilities as an academic leader and so build your career potential.

The programme is led by facilitators with an extensive experience of academic team leadership and a thorough knowledge of the challenges involved in higher education teaching and learning. Moreover the programme will provide you with questions and tools to reflect on your own practice and return to your own institution with a plan for continuing self-development. Consequently this programme will help prepare you for the many challenges of leading a team of teaching academics.

Programme Overall Outcome

Participants leave empowered, inspired and be confidently able to understand what is required in leading a teaching-focused (or any other) team.

Course Structure

Pre-Course - Participants will be required to engage with the issues that will be dealt with on the programme and asked to explore what they believe about leaders and leadership. Participants will also be asked to examine their institution and department’s strategic vision for teaching and leadership. Materials and specific questions will be provided prior to the course.

Day 1 - 10.0am arrival and registration for a 10.30am start. Teaching sessions conclude at 7.00pm for dinner and informal networking

Day 2 - 8.30am start to a 4.00pm close

Post Course - Delegates will be strongly encouraged to support one another in implementing their personal action plans and will be given the opportunity to review their learning and personal vision with a member of the programme team.

Benefits from Participating

Fuller details of the programme content can be found in the brochure

Forthcoming Dates

 LTT5

 Dates: Wednesday 16 - Thursday 17 June 2010

 Venue: York, TBC

 Price for Member Institutions: £950*

Your institution must be a member of the Leadership Foundation for the members’ price to apply.*

To secure a place on LTT5, complete the booking form and return it to Kyra Spinlove

*See the booking form for non-members prices.

Details of the Leadership Foundation's Cancellation Policy can be found here.