Approved Teacher/Tutor
Approved Teacher, Tutor and Marker status is required of all persons involved in teaching, tutoring and/or marking as defined under the terms of Ordinance P6 - Approved Teachers, Approved Tutors and Approved Markers. This applies to staff who are involved in activities both on and off-campus.
Anyone who is involved in teaching activities for five or more hours of student contact per course, and who is not already a full- or part-time member of staff, must be approved by the University as a Teacher, Tutor, Marker or Demonstrator.
Each role has different responsibilities which are summarised below and more details are found on each of the pages to help you decide which category you need to apply for.
Colleagues at Heriot-Watt University can visit our internal Approved Teachers, Tutors, Markers and Demonstrators Hub for further information on all areas relating to the approval process.
Approved Teacher duties include:
- Develop teaching and learning materials
- Deliver courses
- Provide tutorial, laboratory and project design and support
- Mentor students
- Undertake formative assessment of students
- Undertake summative assessment of students (e.g. coursework, examinations, dissertations, etc)
- Supervise students undertaking projects or research dissertations as part of a programme of study
Approved Teachers may make a contribution to course summative assessment and to programme specification and design but they should be supervised by a suitable member of academic staff
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