RPL claim and AOL draft

 Drafts are intended to initiate a feedback dialogue (verbally via a follow up supervision on skype, OR written via email) with your supervisor, they are not usefully used to ask if things are 'right' or sent with an expectation of receiving corrections, by way of a pre-marking opportunity.

Please do receive feedback as an extended discussion of your work and send a draft with the Feedback Discussion Form, noting the specific questions you have on this draft of work that you would like to initiate a discussion with.

Often feedback contains prompts for further reading, suggested texts/practitioners to look at, comments regarding the level of critical thinking/analysis in your writing over overly descriptive personal narrative approaches etc.. Feedback comments are not telling you to 'correct' something and re-submit, but more trying to help you to move your thinking and writing on as we see the process of your work developmentally.

With this in mind, when you have received feedback on a draft of work, please take time to read and consider comments made, come back to your supervisor asking to extend the conversation, arrange a skype is you have further thoughts and questions as a result of the feedback, but please not to send a 2nd draft asking if the work is now correct, or continuous re-drafts up until the submission date.

At MA level we put our trust in you as professional people and see our role as supervisors as guiding you, being a critical friend, promting, pushing your thoughts, challenging sometimes in order for you to develop further. We are not testing you getting things 'right' we are interested in your engagement and curiosity about your own work.



RPL claims:
As you work on your AOL essays and developing your RPL claims for submission on Monday April 19th, please just send ONE AOL to your supervisor as a draft, (draft deadline March 15) NOT ALL AOLS. From the feedback discussion on this regarding content, structure, context, balance of theory and practice etc you should be developing all subsequent AOLs independently. 

Please make sure you complete the RPL claim sheet as a cover to your claim when you submit it in April.

The claim sheet is a really helpful way for you to identify clearly to us and the Accreditation team at the university what you are making a claim for academic credit for, how you are seeing this claim in the context of your professional practice and within the context of a wider field of practice and scholarship. Please give some thought to your AOL titles, making sure that they are clearly identifying the Area of Learning that you are addressing in that essay, that they refer to the discipline of your practice (ie: 'The use of imagery', would be more effectively stated as 'The use of imagery in teaching classical ballet'). Please do ensure that your AOL titles are not longer than 60 characters in length, if they are this simply delays the process of them being accredited as they will come straight back to us for revision. The claim sheet does have examples to guide you in how and where relevant information should go, please do follow this and don't forget to include your professional practice statement at the top of the form where indicated in order to offer context to the whole RPL claim. If you are not claiming all 80 credits required through this process this term, that is fine as long as you have agreed this in conversation with your supervisor but you are expected to still note all the AOL titles on the RPL claim sheet, noting that the credit for these is not claimed at this stage. 

Please note that Prior Accredited Learning is considered at Level 7 (PGCE, ISTD Fellowship for example) and up to 30 credits of agreed prior accreditation may be claimed which is at level 6 (ISTD Licentiate for example where the Fellowship has not beed obtained, you cannot claim for both). Any Prior Accredited Learning that you may have at levels 2-5 may be considered as you reflect on your areas of learning but should not be noted as Prior Accredited Learningon your RPL claim form.

Please note in the RPL folder on Unihub there is further information and recordings of skype sessions where Adesola and I have been talking through the process.