{"id":46,"date":"2016-03-01T10:25:22","date_gmt":"2016-03-01T10:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/partnersinlearning\/?p=46"},"modified":"2017-03-24T14:14:35","modified_gmt":"2017-03-24T14:14:35","slug":"your-guide-your-experience-learning-and-teaching-at-cccu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/partnersinlearning\/your-guide-your-experience-learning-and-teaching-at-cccu\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Guide, Your Experience: Learning and Teaching at CCCU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->Hello!<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to the Partners in Learning Blog; and if it isn&#8217;t your first time, welcome back!<\/p>\n<p>For all the newbies who haven&#8217;t been here before, this is a place where we (<strong>The Partners in Learning Team<\/strong>) showcase some of our most exciting projects here at Canterbury Christ Church University.<\/p>\n<p>This term we&#8217;re going to be giving you an insight into one of the largest\u00a0projects we&#8217;ve ever undertaken here at Partners in Learning, &#8216;<strong>The Learning and Teaching Strategy: Student Edition<\/strong>&#8216;.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>This project aims to translate the University&#8217;s official Learning and Teaching Strategy into a student friendly version.<\/p>\n<p>Without going into too much detail, the official Learning and Teaching Strategy was released late\u00a02015; and is designed to ensure the University&#8217;s resources and activities are\u00a0in line with achieving the University&#8217;s 2015-20 Strategic Plan (more information on the Strategic Plan\u00a0can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/cccu.canterbury.ac.uk\/strategic-framework\/docs\/strategic-framework-2015.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, and the official Learning and Teaching Strategy can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canterbury.ac.uk\/learning-and-teaching-enhancement\/docs\/Learning-Teaching-Strategy-document-version.pdf\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>The Canterbury Christ Churches Learning and Teaching Strategy foresees:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The development of a vibrant learning community of staff and students in which outstanding learning, teaching and assessment practice plays a key role in providing a first class higher education experience and excellent outcomes, underpinned by and contributing to research and knowledge exchange and shaping the physical, social and spiritual environment of the university.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>By translating the Strategy into\u00a0a <strong>Student Edition<\/strong>, we are making it more accessible to <strong>students<\/strong>.\u00a0With greater understanding and engagement with the key principles of the strategy, we aspire\u00a0to empower students to take ownership of their learning experience.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>As well as the creation of a\u00a0Student Edition for the Strategy, the team will be presenting their work at the University&#8217;s Annual Learning and Teaching Conference and at the RAISE National Conference, but more on that later&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>So for now, let&#8217;s get to know the team that will be bringing you this very exciting\u00a0project:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>THE TEAM<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Georgia Horsley:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hello, I&#8217;m Georgia. I am the youngest of the team, and am in my first year at CCCU studying Education Studies. I&#8217;m a happy-go-lucky glass half full kind of person, always looking to make new friends and seize new opportunities. Please don&#8217;t hesitate to stop and say hi if you see me around campus or out and about in Canterbury!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sophie Worrall:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hi I&#8217;m Sophie! I&#8217;m the weirdest melee of a human &#8211; both a hardcore history student and the Vice President of the Musical Theatre Society!\u00a0Completely Disney obsessed to the point of knowing every word of The Lion King and I wouldn&#8217;t have it any other way!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Claire Street:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hi, I&#8217;m Claire, I love the author Michael Ondaatje and I read The English Patient weekly, very meditative. I am currently loving Sticky Finger (the Aussie band, not The Rolling Stones album). I despise blurry photos and The Rolling Stones (who I saw in Johannesburg and really didn\u2019t rate). And I wish I could put Paprika on everything! Except sweet potatoes, which I absolutely hate, yuck!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Maria Gnanajeyarajah:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My name is Maria Laisa Gnanajeyarajah and I am a 2nd Year Law Student. I describe myself as very talkative and patient. I am an animal lover, especially dogs, and similar to many students, I love going out with friends to have a great night whenever possible.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Savannah-Jade Swan:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My name is Savannah-Jade Swan, I like health &amp; fitness, pubs (not clubs), red wine, skiing, clothes and shoes, being kept on my toes,\u00a0anything pink and sunshine! (My life in a sentence).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ana Garrancho:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hi, I am Ana, a mature and EU student, always happy and seeing the positive side of each situation. I love to joke and play around, I am loving university and all that comes with it. My course is BA (Hons) Counselling, Coaching and Mentoring and I am currently in 2nd year. My aim is to help people, especially students from any age and background. This project is good as gold for me. It is all that I wanted to do.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Daniel Loveday:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hi I&#8217;m Dan, I&#8217;m 22 years old, currently studying in my second year of university at the Broadstairs campus, enjoy reading, photographing at any occasion and chance possible&#8230;and generally having a good time in life.<\/p>\n<p>Other then these I also really love music, more into my rock&#8217;n&#8217;roll than the more contemporary stuff, going to live gigs and concerts has to be one of my favourite things to do; having seen such stars as Lou Reed (Velvet Underground), Iggy Pop (The Stooges), Roger Waters (Pink Floyd) and various others. I find myself always looking out for the next opportunity to see one of the old greats, well, whoever is still kicking round, that is.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Phil Mooney (Staff &#8211; Project Lead):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hi I\u2019m Phil, I\u2019m the Student Engagement Officer for the University and I lead the Partners in Learning initiative.<\/p>\n<p>I love dogs, my beard and rugby (not necessarily in that order) and I love to cook, but not bake\u2026I am a terrible baker. Oh and I really love pigs! One day I am going to buy a farm and fill it with hundreds of pigs. Seriously, pigs are awesome!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gabrielle Dern (Staff &#8211; Project Assistant):\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hi there! I\u2019m Gabbie and I\u2019m the resident Aussie on the team. I \u00a0moved to Canterbury eight weeks ago because I saw one of the vegan cafes here post a cute picture on Instagram (and for this job at Canterbury Christ Church\u00a0of course!). My favourite food is grilled banana with peanut butter (and a little bit of sea salt)\u00a0and I absolutely love Jimmy Fallon from The Tonight Show\u2026I could watch his skits forever. Oh, and one day I would love to live in either New York city or Paris (or both!).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Until next time,<\/p>\n<p>Tsch\u00fcss, Tsch\u00fcssi<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Partners in Learning Team<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":92509,"featured_media":329,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[18,2,26,10,14,6,22],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-learning-and-teaching-strategy-student-edition","tag-enhancement","tag-learning","tag-project","tag-strategy","tag-student","tag-teaching","tag-university"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"authorName":"","featuredImage":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/partnersinlearning\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/481\/2016\/02\/IMG_4341-Resized.jpg","postExcerpt":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/partnersinlearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/partnersinlearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/partnersinlearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/partnersinlearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/92509"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/partnersinlearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":36,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/partnersinlearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/partnersinlearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions\/217"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/partnersinlearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/partnersinlearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/partnersinlearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/partnersinlearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}