National Teaching Fellowship Scheme

All nominee claims will be assessed on the evidence provided to each of the three NTFS award criteria:

NTFS Criterion 1: Individual Excellence

Evidence of enhancing and transforming student outcomes and/or the teaching profession; demonstrating impact commensurate with the individual’s context and the opportunities afforded by it.

NTFS Criterion 2: Raising the Profile Of Excellence

Evidence of supporting colleagues and influencing support for student learning and/or the teaching profession; demonstrating impact and engagement beyond the nominee’s immediate academic or professional role.

NTFS Criterion 3: Developing Excellence

Show the nominee’s commitment to and impact of ongoing professional development concerning teaching and learning and/or learning support. Reviewers will be looking for evidence of reach, value and impact to be demonstrated within the narrative presented in Section B. Please note that each of the three award criteria above is given equal consideration in the assessment process and weighted equally in the overall score.

Reviewers will be looking for evidence that demonstrates the reach, value and impact of the nominee’s practice. Nominees should be mindful of this requirement and aim to provide evidence that demonstrates a balance of these three qualities across the claim.

Reach

The scale of influence.

Though ‘geographic’ reach may be important for some nominees, it is useful to consider other ways that a nominee can demonstrate reach. Some nominees may demonstrate reach at a department/ faculty/ institution/ national/ global level, for example, but others might provide evidence of how their practice has reached different groups of students, individuals and/or organisations (e.g. postgraduates, commuter students, BAME students, online learners, etc.).s

Value

The benefit derived for students and staff (which may take different forms).

Value may include qualitative evidence such as a change in approach to learning among students or staff. For example, evidence may be provided about how the work being described has added value to the student learning experience or teaching practice. Value may also relate to the quality of enhanced experiences and the meaningfulness of practices. Some nominees may also be working in settings where there are positive explicit ethical elements to their practice.

Impact

The difference that has been made to policy, practice and/or student outcomes as the result of an activity.

The focus here is on explicit evidence of positive change taking place. Impact evidence can be both quantitative and qualitative, but it is important to show how the activities described have changed teaching practice and/or learning outcomes.