One-to-one

One-to-one professional development provides an ideal opening for development for both new and established staff. It can be designed to meet your specific needs, at a time and place that fit into your schedule. A number of staff have found it useful to have detailed one-to-one support as well as attending the various workshops we offer on teaching (see Central events programme).

There are many motivations for one-to-one development including:

• personal interest - to revisit current practice from other perspectives;
  
  
• problem situations - including problems you identify yourself, issues arising from student feedback questionnaires, student comment, or observations by colleagues; and
  
  
• new developments - be they new courses or teaching materials, new approaches to teaching or research, external expectations, or new job roles which mean you need to develop new skills or update yourself on new approaches to familiar issues.

One-to-one support is available in various forms. For example, you may find it useful to:

• have someone observe your teaching and give you direct feedback;
  
  
• have your teaching recorded on video, and replay it to see for yourself how you perform;
  
  
• meet particular members of the support staff across the School;
  
  
• see how others approach their teaching through observing colleagues lecturing or running seminars;
  
  
• simply discuss ideas about your teaching or research with someone else; or
  
  
• spend time with someone with specific expertise that you'd like to develop.

We are happy to arrange for any of the above - or to meet and discuss other options. Contact Liz Barnett in the first instance: l.barnett@lse.ac.uk.

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