Your Account of Professional Practice Fellow Applicant Template

Your Account of Professional Practice
Fellow Applicant Template
This Fellow application template has been created to support individuals in structuring their
application to fully address all the criteria for Descriptor 2 of The UK Professional Standards
Framework (UKPSF).
The evidence requirements for Fellow are set out in the Fellow guidance document for
applicants (available through downloading your Fellow Pack) which should be read prior to
writing your application in this template.
This application template should be completed in accordance the above guidance document
and the following:
 The UK Professional Standards Framework (UKPSF), Descriptor 2

 Fellow overview on HEA website
 Fellow referee guidance notes for applicants
This template has been designed so that you add text under the sub-headings provided across
your application. No appendices or additional documents are required as part of the
application (other than your two referees).
Once completed, this template can be sent to your referees to corroborate your application and
then used to complete your online application via your HEA MyAcademy.
Name
Institution
Date
Evidencing A1: Design and plan learning activities and/or programmes of study
Address the following in this part of your account:
1. The main ways in which you design and plan learning activities and/or programmes of study.
(≤ 100 words)
2. The reasons for your choice of:

a) subject material;
b) activities and techniques;
c) the particular learning technologies included in your plan
3. How your choices facilitate your students’ learning in general and within their subject area
4. At least one of the other Dimensions of Practice for example:
 Which elements of Core Knowledge did you utilise and why.

 Which Professional Values were particularly relevant and why.
Write your evidence here …
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Evidencing A2: Teach and/or support learning
Address the following points in this section of your account:
1. The main ways in which you teach and/or support learners. (≤ 100 words)
5. The activities or techniques you use and why.
6. How you came to use them and why you think they were successful in supporting student learning?
Give reasons for your choice of activities and techniques and how they relate to developing the
learners' understanding of the subject.
7. The elements of Core Knowledge you utilise, how and why.
8. Which Professional Values were particularly relevant and why.
Evidencing A3: Assess and give feedback to learners
Address the following points in this section of your account:
1. The main types of formative and/or summative assessment that you use with learners, whether
formal or informal? (≤ 100 words)
9. How and why you choose the particular approaches and methods you employ, insofar as this was
your own decision.
10. How you ensure your assessments are valid indicators of what you want your students to learn,
that your marking is reliable and the standards you set are appropriate.
11. How you give feedback to learners.

12. How you ensure the feedback you give learners helps them to improve their understanding of the
subject or their performance and development as learners.
13. Which elements of Core Knowledge you utilised, how and why.
14. Which Professional Values you applied, how and why.
Evidencing A4: Develop effective learning environments and approaches to student

support and guidance
Your account needs to address the following:
1. The main types of educational environment in which you work and/or what kinds of support and
guidance you give to your learners, whether formal or informal (≤ 100 words).
15. How you have contributed to making the learning environment more effective for learners.
16. The ways you have contributed to supporting and guiding your learners.
17. Why you chose those particular strategies and how well they worked.
18. Which elements of Core Knowledge you used, how and why.

Write your evidence here…
Evidencing A5: Engage in continuing professional development in subjects/disciplines and

their pedagogy, incorporating research, scholarship and the evaluation of professional
practices
Address the following in your account:
1. Your main strategies for updating and developing your capability as a teacher/supporter of learning
(≤ 100 words). Refer here to any activities you have undertaken to update yourself on aspects of
teaching and learning, for example, staff development activities or conferences on learning and
teaching or participation in projects to develop learning methods.
20. How you used the outcomes from the above CPD strategies to improve the student learning
experience and your own working practice.
21. Which elements of Core Knowledge you utilised, how and why.

Write your evidence here…
Citations
Please list any citations you use in your application here using a consistent referencing system suitable to
your higher education practice. You will be requested to upload your citations as part of your online
application.


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 The UK Professional Standards Framework (UKPSF), Descriptor 2

Address the following in this part of your account:

2. The reasons for your choice of:

4. At least one of the other Dimensions of Practice for example:

 Which elements of Core Knowledge did you utilise and why.

Write your evidence here …

+44 (0)1904 717500 enquiries@heacademy.ac.uk

Address the following points in this section of your account:

5. The activities or techniques you use and why.

7. The elements of Core Knowledge you utilise, how and why.

8. Which Professional Values were particularly relevant and why.

Write your evidence here …

Evidencing A3: Assess and give feedback to learners

Address the following points in this section of your account:

11. How you give feedback to learners.

+44 (0)1904 717500 enquiries@heacademy.ac.uk

14. Which Professional Values you applied, how and why.

Write your evidence here …

Evidencing A4: Develop effective learning environments and approaches to student

Your account needs to address the following:

19. Which Professional Values you applied, how and why.

+44 (0)1904 717500 enquiries@heacademy.ac.uk

Evidencing A5: Engage in continuing professional development in subjects/disciplines and

Address the following in your account:

22. Which Professional Values you applied, how and why.

+44 (0)1904 717500 enquiries@heacademy.ac.uk

+44 (0)1904 717500 enquiries@heacademy.ac.uk

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